Flashing Steel Some Old And New Fencing Contrasts (1926)

Twenty years ago, explained Prof. Leon Bertrand, the wellknown International Fencer, the sabre duel was a solid and heavy affair, and the body armour cumbersome and C, U of the torso of a man who holds a fencing sabre. Various shots of him making moves with the foil are dissolved into each other. M, S of two fencers putting on their fencing helmets. M, S of them having a duel in a garden. C, U of the hand of one of the fencers. Note the heavy sweeping cuts and how comparatively slow