Skittle Wizardry! (1937)

Full title reads: “Skittle Wizardry!“ United States of America, USA. Various shots of Andy Varipapa, US bowls champion, in indoor bowling alley. He demonstrates trick shots and is always successful in striking all the skittles. Some of the shots are complex, involving several balls sent in different directions to hit specific skittle. The narrator explains that the game is “what we call skittles“ but the Americans call bowling. It is played with twelve pins. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to t
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