Bartitsu documentary

A gallery of images from the latest shoot for the upcoming Bartitsu documentary is now available at:
http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/bartitsu-today/neo-bartitsu-stickfighting-gallery/ - pictures represent a neo-Bartitsu walking cane combat demonstration supervised by Ran Braun and featuring members of the Nova Scrimia organisation.



The documentary itself is currently scheduled for release in April/May this year, to co-incide with the DVD release of the Robert Downey, Jr. "Sherlock Holmes" movie. Our preview trailer is at [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDNaC-2HW-A"]Documentary preview: "Bartitsu - the Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes" - YouTube[/ame] .

Louie

 

Do you think it will be on Discovery channel ?

Or will it just be on the DVD extra's ?

Thanks for letting me know I am fascinated by Baritsu, (also Defendu).

 

They should make a documentary about bartitsu on television.

 

Why the Sherlock Holmes angle? He was a fictional character, kinda suggest the martial art is also fictional. I'm guessing its not.

P.S. I watched it with no sound, at work, so maybe I am missing something.

 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that Holmes practiced "Baritsu", a misspelling of Bartitsu.

Best regards,

-Mark

 

Ahh ok. I guess that makes sense. Thanks.

 

I understand the documentary will be available for download and possibly for sale as a DVD. I'd love to see it on TV though!

 

I was asked to do some animated sequences for the program using Victorian illustrations and bringing them to life!

louie

 

The other significance of Sherlock Holmes is that we probably wouldn't know about Bartitsu if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hadn't written "baritsu" in to Holmes' fight with Professor Moriarty.

 

I hope it's on the Discovery Channel. It sounds interesting.