- Title: F-3527
- Summary: CIRCUS DAY IN OUR TOWN: FOLLOWS THE CIRCUS TRAIN FROM THE TIME IT ARRIVES IN TOWN UNTIL THE END OF THE MATINEE. SHOWS THE ELEPHANTS WORKING TO HELP PUT UP THE HUGE CIRCUS TENT POLES, THE CLOWNS GETTING READY FOR THEIR PERFORMANCE, & THE VARIOUS FEATURE ACTS OF THE CIRCUS.
- Description:01:40:40 - HIGH ANGLE SHOT OF HUGE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE TRAIN ENGINE PULLING INTO STATION PULLING MANY TRAIN CARS 01:40:51 - COLE BROTHERS CIRCUS TRAIN FLAT-BED TRAIN CARS WITH VARIOUS EQUIPMENT ON IT. 01:40:59 - HUGE CROWD OF MEN & BOYS AT TRAIN STATION LINED UP WATCHING THE ARRIVAL OF THE CIRCUS TRAIN 01:41:01 - LARGE WORK HORSE IS LEAD OUT OF TRAIN CAR 01:41:06 - TEAM OF HORSES PULL WAGONS & OTHER THINGS OFF TRAIN CARS. BILLBOARDS VISIBLE BEHIND TRAIN 01:41:26 - ELEPHANTS LEAD OUT OF TRAIN BOX CARS. BIG BLANCH 01:41:36 - CU FACES OF ELEPHANTS 01:41:43 - MEN RIDE ELEPHANTS THROUGH STREETS OF SMALL TOWN AMERICA 01:41:51 - TRACTOR PULLS TENT POLE WAGON ON CIRCUS GROUNDS 01:41:58 - MEN RIDING HERD OF ELEPHANTS ARRIVE AT CIRCUS GROUNDS 01:42:05 - MEN PUTTING UP TENT POLES 01:42:13 - ELEPHANT PULLS ROPES & CHAINS TO RAISE CENTER POLE OF THE BIG TOP TENT 01:42:27 - MANY MAN POUND ON STAKE OF TENT POLE WITH SLEDGEHAMMERS 01:42:35 - OTHER MEN USE STEAM-DRIVEN MACHINE TO DRIVE IN TENT STAKE POLES 01:42:47 - MEN & BOYS UNROLL CANVAS FOR THE CIRCUS TENT 01:42:55 - ELEPHANT HELPS TO UNROLL CIRCUS TENT 01:43:09 - CAMEL STANDING AROUND BY CIRCUS CART 01:43:12 - MEN & BOYS FROM THE TOWN PULLING OUT ALL THE CANVAS FOR THE TENT 01:43:25 - CIRCUS WORKERS STICHING TOGETHER PIECES OF TENT WITH LARGE PIECES OF ROPE 01:43:33 - ELEPHANTS STANDING AROUND WHILE TOWNSPEOPLE FEED THEM 01:43:42 - BOYS HELP TO PUT SIDE POLES AROUND THE EDGES OF TENT 01:43:48 - TENT IS SLOWLY RAISED TO TOP OF POLE 01:43:53 - ELEPHANT PULLING AT ROPES TO RAISE TENT 01:43:56 - INTERIOR OF TENT AS THE ROOF IS RAISES HIGHER 01:44:02 - ELEPHANTS INSIDE TENT PULL ON ROPES TO RAISE INTERIOR POLES 01:44:10 - PAN ACROSS TOP OF BIG TOP TENT WITH VARIOUS COUNTRIES FLAGS INCLUDING AMERICAN FLAG 01:44:20 - MAIN ENTRANCE TENT & BANNER RAISED: "THE GREATEST CIRCUS ON EARTH, MAIN ENTRANCE" 01:44:27 - ORNATE CALLIOPIE WAGON PLAYING MUSIC PAN TO CIRCUS MIDWAY WITH MAIN ENTRANCE & SIDE SHOW BANNERS 01:44:44 - BARKER AT SIDE SHOW ENTRANCE SELLING TICKETS 01:44:53 - CIRCUS GOERS STANDING AROUND OUTSIDE ENTRANCE 01:44:57 - BOYS STANDING BY BOOTHS OF GAMES OF CHANCE 01:45:01 - BARKER IN FRONT OF SIDE SHOW BANNER ADVERTISING PROF. BROWNE'S MINSTREL JUBILEE 01:45:04 - BLACK MUSICIANS WITH TAMBOURINES 01:45:11 - SWORD SWALLOWER 01:45:20 - BOYS LINE UP & BUY TICKETS FOR SIDE SHOW 01:45:27 - MAN BACKSTAGE IN DRESSING ROOM LOOKS IN MIRROR AS HE UNDOES HIS TIE & GETS UNDRESSED 01:45:40 - PUTTING ON CLOWN WHITE MAKE-UP. 01:45:47 - VARIOUS SHOTS OF CLOWNS GETTING READY: PUTTING ON MAKE-UP, RED NOSE, DWARF CLOWN, MAKING FACES IN MIRROR 01:45:57 - PEOPLE LINED UP OUTSIDE MAIN ENTRANCE WAITING TO GET IN 01:46:01 - CU AS CLOWNS ENTER TENT 01:46:13 - CIRCUS BAND PLAYS 01:46:17 - AUDIENCE MEMBERS SITTING IN STANDS, GIRLS EATING COTTON CANDY 01:46:23 - CLUSTER OF BALLOONS 01:46:25 - BOXER DOGS PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH BALLOON. STUPID PET TRICKS 01:47:00 - CIRCUS AUDIENCE APPLAUSE 01:47:03 - THE IRON-JAWED ROLLER SKATES CIRCUS ACT: MAN & WOMEN HOLD ROPE WITH THEIR TEETH WHILE ON ROLLER SKATES. SPINS AROUND ON SKATES & BY HER MOUTH 01:47:15 - ACROBATS SPIN HIGH ABOVE CROWD BY THEIR TEETH 01:47:25 - ACROBAT FAMILY JUMPING ON SEESAW & LANDING ON EACH OTHERS SHOULDERS 01:47:52 - CLOWNS ACTING SILLY IN THREE RING CIRCUS 01:48:02 - PRANCING HORSES RUN AROUND AND LEAN ON EACH & REAR UP ON THEIR HINDS LEGS 01:49:16 - CIRCUS AUDIENCE APPLAUSE 01:49:18 - AERIAL BALLET: WOMEN SPIN THEMSELVES HIGH ABOVE CROWD ON ROPES 01:49:35 - TINY TRAINED PONIES RACE AROUND INSIDE OF CIRCUS TENT 01:49:45 - FEMALE RIDER STANDS ON BACK OF HORSES WHILE DRIVING TEAM OF 16 HORSES 01:49:52 - CIRCUS AUDIENCE APPLAUSE 01:49:55 - ACROBATIC BAREBACK ACT: WOMAN FLIPS & JUMPS ON & OFF HORSE AS IT RUNS AROUND RING 01:50:09 - SILLY CLOWN TRIES TO IMITATE ACT & FALLS ON HORSE 01:50:15 - MALE & FEMALE COUPLE STAND ON EACH OTHERS SHOULDERS AS THEY RIDE ON BACK OF HORSE 01:50:26 - CLOWN IN BAREBACK ACT RIDES ON BACK OF HORSE WHILE HOLDING HUGE BLOCK OF WOOD 01:50:48 - GYMNIST DOES SOMERSAULT WHILE RIDING ON BACK OF HORSE 01:50:52 - CLOWN & ACROBATS DO VARIOUS FEATS OF JUMPING AND STANDING ETC ALL WHILE RIDING HORSE 01:52:06 - CIRCUS AUDIENCE APPLAUSE 01:52:09 - TIGHTWIRE ACT: MEN DO JUMPS AND FLIPS WHILE ON THE HIGH WIRE 01:52:36 - ELEPHANT ACT: ELEPHANTS COME OUT, PRETTY WOMAN LIFTED UP. ELEPHANTS STAND ON EACH OTHER, CRAWL UNDER EACH OTHER 01:53:56 - WOMAN LIES DOWN AS ELEPHANT LAYS ON TOP OF HER 01:54:10 - CLOWNS WANDER AROUND AS THE NET IS SET UP 01:54:22 - COUPLE GET INTO CANNON. HUMAN CANNONBALL 01:54:28 - LITTLE KIDS WATCHING CIRCUS 01:54:33 - COUPLE GET SHOT OUT OF CANNON & LAND IN NET
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1949
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: F-3527