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DVD - Bartitsu
The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes
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MSRP: $20.95
Price: $12.95
You Save: $8.00 (38 %)
Item Number: BRK000001
Running time: 54 mins. Region: 0 (international) Format: NTSC, Color, Fullscreen Language: English
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"I have introduced a new art of self defence..."
- E. W. Barton-Wright, 1899
At the end of the Victorian era, E. W. Barton-Wright combined jiujitsu, kickboxing, and stick fighting into the "Gentlemanly Art of Self Defence" known as Bartitsu.
After Barton-Wright's School of Arms mysteriously closed in 1902, Bartitsu was almost forgotten save for a famous, cryptic reference in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Empty House.
Hosted by Tony Wolf and featuring interviews with Harry Cook, Emelyne Godfrey, Mark Donnelly, Graham Noble, Neal Stephenson and Will Thomas, Bartitsu: the Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes relates the fascinating history, rediscovery and revival of Barton-Wright's pioneering mixed martial art.
Read this interview with Tony Wolf on how this DVD came about!
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Chapters:
" ... some knowledge of baritsu ..."
Edward William Barton-Wright
Self-Defence in Victorian England
The New Art of Self-Defence
The Bartitsu School of Arms and Physical Culture
1902-1930
1950-1951
The Mystery of Baritsu
The Bartitsu Revival
Credits
Reviews
Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes reveals an exciting world of Victorian ruffians, garroting panics, militant suffragettes, and physical culture, as well as the colorful life of Bartitsu’s founder Edward Barton-Wright … music by the steampunk band Abney Park creates a moody atmosphere of Victorian danger, excitement, and heroics. Through interviews, re-enactment, archival images, and contemporary footage of neo-Bartitsu students, the “lost” martial art is brought to life.
Here’s the problem – what to do when you love a good punch up, but public brawling is incompatible with your image as an amenable, if damp-stained, man of letters? The answer is “Bartitsu,” a nineteenth-century martial art developed specifically to transform the upright classes into killing machines, and whose unusual history has been revealed in an excellent new documentary …
Sleek and engaging … fascinating … a superbly watchable piece of martial arts history …
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