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CIRCUS - Royalty-free footage 220785 00:33:06 - 00:40:56 Germany 1944 SD B/W German News No. 107 - Reel 1 INCLUDING: 00:36:25 - Lions, tigers, bears, and acrobats at German circus “Busch”. 00:37:37 – 220929 18:06:07 - 18:06:49 England 1946 SD B/W Personalities In The News Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret attend circus opening. Tour of animal enclosures, inc elephants. VS Princesses in big top watching horse display, acrobats and laughing at clowns. 200557 10:18:04 - 10:19:10 England 1949 Sd/Sil B/W Pictorial Highlights: England VS circus and performers; audience laughing; elephants, acrobats etc.; high wire. 221402 03:17:07 - 03:18:08 France SD B/W France (High Wire Wedding) Bride, Francine Perry, in wedding gown climbing ladder, bride & groom do high wire walk over bay in fishing village. Mayor, MCU, on ladder; large crowd watching. CU placing ring. Circus performers. 220598 05:43:50 - 05:52:51 France 1919 - 1920s Sd b/w World War One No rights to music or track. INCLUDING: 05:47:36 Montage: construction workers, housing, railroad station & boarding trains, beach scenes, summers tent camp, large women eating & cooking outdoors, circus trapeze act, chorus girls dance in CU. 05:49:21 221402 03:21:05 - 03:23:09 SD B/W News In Brief - Germany INCLUDING: 03:22:05 Title: Germany (Trained Chimpanzees) Animal trainer w/ two chimps dressed in clothes; one in skirt swings on trapeze. Five others playing musical instruments while two dance. Clown performs. Dog on spinning wheel jumping over turning propeller. 03:22:48 Moscow circus w/ three tigers in large water tank w/ animal trainer. 220796 16:35:28 - 16:36:31 Holland Netherlands 1958 SD B/W News In Brief - Parakeet Circus Parakeets on tiny motorcycle; climbing rope ladder; walking on tightrope; birds put to bed and waking up at sound of alarm clock. Animal gag. 220272 03:25:04 - 03:25:44 Holland; Netherlands 1954 Sd B/W Alsatian Wolfhound picks up tiger cub in mouth and lets it nurse along with its own pups. CU of cub suckling. CU of mother. Pup & cub playing. Tiger in circus cage that deserted cub. 220290 06:35:41 - 06:36:18 Spain 1956 sd B/W News In Brief: Spain - Circus Strongman performing acrobatics on wire (Tenisco ? ) 221106 15:14:48 - 15:16:45 usa 1929 SIL B/W These Kids Believe That Barnum Was Right City Playground Commission helps them have a circus with elephants ‘n’everything Los Angeles: Kids climbing all over Municipal Circus trailer. Back of trailer opened, ringmaster jumps out holding whip - kids cheer as animal costumes handed out. Men dressed as elephant charge about; CUs kids. Kids gallop around ringmaster w/ horse costumes. Men in bull costume defeated by man in bullfighter costume w/ boot polish on face. Trick shots acrobat jumping over row of kids then film reversed - reverse shot kids in heap form pyramid. 220610 08:04:12 - 08:05:22 USA 1930 Si b/w [Early training for Spring dog shows] Circus dog balancing on ball on see-saw. Dogs walking tightrope. Dog being swung on rope. Dog climbing ladder to diving board and jumping into blanket. 220751 14:07:31 - 14:08:40 USA 1930 SIL B/W Train Equine Stars in Thrilling Acts for Circus Opening Zebras being taught to jump. Zebras standing on edge of ring. Man training horse with girl rider. Man with group of horses on hind legs. Various other tricks with horses. 220622 22:07:39 - 22:08:27 USA 1931 si B/W 'Big Top' Folk Devise New Animal Thrills For 1931 Circus Fans Elephants & Woman to stand. Woman makes elephant dance; then trainer lifted in mouth of elephant and carried across yard. 2 women pulled in wagon by pigs. stunt 220859 05:03:51 - 05:04:27 USA 1931 Si b/w Circus Clowns learn art of Leaping - Daring funsters thril crowds with jump. Acrobats using spring board / trampoline making leaps over horses and elephants. 221143 06:18:50 - 06:19:40 USA 1931 SIL B/W Early Risers Greet Dawn Arrival of ‘Big Top’ Beasties (1931) New York City Line of horses and others animals eating alongside train as men watch; elephants out of circus train cars & lined up as men watch. Small boy walks past camera. Ringling Brothers Circus (?); Arriving; Barnum And Bailey Circus (?); Ritual; 221143 06:30:47 - 06:31:54 USA 1931 SIL B/W New Death-Defying Feat Perfected by Daring Aerialists (1931) Trapeze artists doing catches and exchanges, some in slow motion and some seen thru net. At amusement park. Performances; Dangerous; Circus Performers; 221540 02:04:43 - 02:08:28 USA 1932 SIL B/W Long Beach, Cal. - Selects odd playmate! - INCLUDING: 02:07:10 Title: Cincinnati, Ohio - Famous elephant dies at age of 120! Tillie goes to final rest, mourned by fellow pachyderms 02:07:21 Large elephant pulling dead elephant w/ cable, man w rifle & couple walk behind in wooded area. 02:07:32 Two men beside dead elephant w/ red cross on forehead, large cross w/ Tillie on it & wreath. CU cross. Man pats elephant. 02;07:54 Performing elephants, two w/ red crosses on foreheads. 02:08:07 Large crowd around grave of Tillie. Three elephants, one fires cannon. another with cloth on trunk wipes elephant’s eye. Stunts; Animals Death; Trained Elephants; Robinson Circus; NOTE: Robinson Combination Show had largest elephant herd until bank panic in 1916 had to sell all but for to Ringling Brothers. Robinson kept the four oldest: Clara, Tillie, Tony & Old Pitt on his property, Terrace Park, Ohio. 221541 03:24:19 - 03:25:32 USA 1933 SIL B/W Circus Under Canvas Proves A Big Novelty For City Youngsters 03:24:29 Railroad w/ circus train & wagons. People watching horses & other animals leaving. 03:24:36 MCU elephants passing w/ trunks holding tails & handlers alongside; kids watching elephants eating. 03:24:46 Raising tent canvas from outside, from inside. Kids behind netting. Elephant pushing Hagenbeck & Wallace circus wagon. 03:25:08 Sideshow painted advertising canvases, barker selling tickets. MCU boy eating cotton candy. 03:25:17 Boys try to crawl under canvas tent sides. Int. ringmaster w/ elephant sitting up. Cop chases boys from edge of canvas. 220805 08:26:48 - 08:27:38 USA 1934 SD B/W Pets Are Glorified As Boys Play Circus YMCA show - Group of schoolboys pose with their pets, some in cages - dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea-pigs, mice. 220295 16:21:34 - 16:22:20 USA 1936 Si B/W Billy Goats Learn Real Circus Tricks in Barn-Yard Ring. On sandy beach - Goats on See-Saw with young woman trainer - goat jumps through hoops - goat climbing ladder and walking tightrope - down slide 221340 14:07:54 - 14:08:54 USA 1938 SIL B/W Aerial Feats And Fireworks Herald 1939 World’s Fair Aerialists on high scaffolding & poles; woman descends hanging by teeth on tight wire as crowd watches. other women do it. 14:08:29 GOOD Fireworks at night w/ pinwheels and aerial bombs exploding overhead. Waterfall of fireworks. 220769 03:01:50 - 03:02:35 USA 1939 SIL B/W Oh Boy! Circus Gets Ready to Take The Road Ringling Bros. Circus Elephant pyramid; horse acrobats and horses standing on hind legs. View of hippo’s bottom walking away then open mouth with teeth. 220769 03:05:43 - 03:06:31 USA 1939 SIL B/W Beatty & His Lion Will Appear At Big Police Circus Clyde Beatty & lions with cubs in basket being bottle-fed. Lioness in cage with cubs. 221154 14:14:24 - 14:15:17 USA 1939 SIL B/W Clyde Beatty Starts Class in Lion Taming (1939) Atlantic City, New Jersey Trainer with “students” of starlets and guys in college sweaters; shows them the use of whip & chair as lions watch. Trainer w/ diagrams of right & wrong way drawn on blackboard; tourists & students watching. One of students in ring with lions. Trainer takes over. Good CU shot lion on stool looking up. Several lions on stools. Circus, Animal training; Stunts; Education; Oddities; 221223 06:09:08 - 06:10:02 USA 1939 SIL B/W Clyde Beatty Starts Class in Lion Taming Atlantic City, New Jersey Trainer with “students” of starlets and guys in college sweaters; shows them the use of whip & chair as lions watch. Trainer w/ diagrams of right & wrong way drawn on blackboard; tourists & students watching. One of students in ring with lions. Trainer takes over. Good CU shot lion on stool looking up. Several lions on stools. 221234 03:15:02 - 03:17:53 USA 194? SD B/W Three-In-One Revue w/ Frank Paris & His Marionettes Minoco Productions SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED! Bikey Mikey. Guy in small circus ring set w/ puppet on bicycle doing various tricks in front of painted set. Fannie & Her Fan. Fan-dancing puppet w/ feathered fan. Puppeter in black behind him against black backdrop. She steps on her skirt & pulls it off. Sir Rollin D Bones Skeleton dances in front of cemetery backdrop w/ bones coming loose. 221107 16:19:02 - 16:19:35 USA 1940 SIL B/W Rochester, Ind. Horses grazing in front of smoking ruins of Cole Brothers’ Circus winter quarters where hundreds of animals burned to death - pan across ruins w/ mangled cages & salvage team picking through. X 221127 00:45:21 - 00:54:42 usa 1940 SD B/W Elephants Erpi Classroom Films [Main title missing] Boy with pitch fork, Bob, introduced to man. Elephant, Mumbo’s bad eyesight explained, offset by good sense of smell as he finds sugar in Bob Bradford’s pocket. Large feet w/ toes on all feet. Tail. Trainer shows tricks of sitting up, trucker comes and trainer takes elephant to get truck out of ditch by pushing. Man waves afterward. 00:47:26 Man decides to buy Mumbo who is taking shower bath at river. Sucking up water and blowing it into mouth. Rolling in water. Found by Bob and father. Mumbo out of water, scratches back against branches of tree. Scoops up dust and throws around back. 00:49:30 Bob takes Mumbo to playpen to stop his sister from crying in play pen. Does tricks and she stops crying. Bob gets up on back by the trunk, he gives it sugar, then slides back off. Elephant stands on his head. 00:50:52 Mr. Thompson the circus man returns with two baby elephants to be trained and takes Mumbo to work in the circus. Bob begins training them with sugar. 00:52:10 Mr. Thomas walks off with elephant. Baby elephants are moved around training ring after having their chains released. Stand & sit and given sugar. Teaching them to walk the plank & turn around on it. Elephant rings dinner bell. Throws plate with trunk. Incomplete. LN 505-093 03:01:00 - 03:08:34 USA 1940s ? SD B/W Let’s Go To The Circus Encyclopaedia Britannica Films [main titles missing] Clowns applying makeup backstage - CUs. Performers in circus “backyard’ - elephant - Chinese acrobats stretching. Tannoy announcement calling children to Oriental Pageant - INT big top circus tent w/ ribbon dancing - Chinese woman balances glass of water on forehead while spinning plates - bends backwards - audience applauds. Three elephants - woman in skimpy outfit rides on elephant’s trunk. EXT performers waiting. INT Female horse wrangler performs in ballgown w/ several horses trotting around ring. Female acrobatic rollerskating trio. 03:03:57 “Human Butterflies” perform suspended from ceiling of big top w/ winged outfits. Unicyclist performs balancing tricks. Acrobat troupe. Backstage scenes. Women spin from metal contraption operated by pedalling man. Male & female acrobatics & male gymnastic duo perform on parallel bars; Chevrolet advertisement visible in BG. Misc. performers in ring inc. comedy / gag sketches. 03:06:20 Woman jumps rope on back of horse cantering around ring. Candyfloss seller. Women in sequinned cotumes perform on ropes. Clowns in ring. Male trapeze artist. 03:08:14 Man & woman shot from cannon into safety net. LN 504-146 16:03:28 - 16:06:03 USA 1941 SD B/W When The Circus Comes To Town SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED! Part of Official Films Circus Capers CU of champagne glasses on tray, moved away. Four piece band The Kidoodlers in dinner suits plays instrumental introduction w/ xylophone etc. in front of painted backdrop in nightclub; sing ‘When the Circus Comes to Town’ in circus setting w/ vars costumes; optical wipes; hula girls dance; band member sings of “cracker jack & prize in every pack” in monotone. Man in drag has his weight guessed. Fairground games. LN 504-146 16:08:42 - 16:11:19 USA 1943 SD B/W Swingeroo Circus SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED! Official Films Painted circus backdrop. Various performers in clown costumes inc. Joe Mole, Keene Twins & Harlan Co-Eds dancing. Fat lady in short dress w/ white bow on podium w/ man as clown; acrobatic dancing; man turns bicycle into unicycle; women tied to leash trot around ring in bathing suits. CUs of women watching w/ big smiles. Tiny unicycle. LN 504-146 16:06:03 - 16:08:41 USA 1945 SD B/W Side Show SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED! Official Films Various women inc Faith Arlen, Frances Wyman and Betty Morgan outside circus sideshow to entice visitors in w/ barker aka compere Tony Blair; acrobatic dancing, baton twirling, hoochie-koochie dancer or striptease, w/ others inc. ‘Strong Girl’ lined up in BG; sailors w/ girlfriends file into tent w/ CU of women’s skirts blowing up as compere guides them over air vent. No singing, only band music. 220656 22:25:52 - 22:28:07 USA 1947 ? SIL B/W Circus Family Practice Woman walking on tightrope. Parents teaching children to walk rope - CU bare feet gripping rope. Man riding bicycle on rope with boy balanced on shoulders. Man climbing to highwire - performing with pole - does headstand. Neon sign lights up “Sensational” Man riding bicycle across highwire using balancing pole. Top shot as man slides down rope to ground. Family pose for camera. 220652 17:07:17 - 17:08:49 USA 1951 SD B/w Big Top - Celebrities Join In Heart Fund Benefit Aerialists at Madison Square Garden. Mrs Impellitteri; Lauritz Melchoir; Jack Dempsey; Emmett Kelly; Jimmy Durante; Gypsy Rose Lee; Celeste Holm; Dorothy Kilgallen; Lily Pons Circus Elephants. Fall of trapeze artist X LN 505-109 11:33:02 - 11:35:02 USA 1951 SD B/W Entertainment - The Circus Is Back! 11:33:13 INT big top - Ringling Brothers circus benefit under way in NYC. Jack Dempsey dressed as clown. Dwarf w/ miniature car, clown gets out. Jimmy Durante tells joke at microphone in audience about mouse & elephant. Clown w/ Eyemo camera. Performer in chimp suit swings from rope. Acrobatic tightrope walker Hubert Castle in top hat & tails. Performer Leoni (?) on swinging pole. Aerial displays of trapeze artists; into net. 220722 01:37:09 - 01:38:02 USA 1954 sd B/W [La Habra California - Elephant] Elephant, Big Bab, working out w/ trainer on grassy field. She lays on Wally Ross, then carries him in mouth. Stunts, Gags; Oddities; Trained Circus Animals; 220808 13:20:37 - 13:21:42 USA 1956 SD B/W Spring Is Here - The Big Top Opens With Usual Thrills Ringling Brothers circus opens in Madison Square Garden. Trapezists and elephant. Clowns. Trapezist Benita? Del Oro. Acrobatics - man stands on head. Japanese rope climber. 220603 11:47:53 - 11:49:24 USA 1966 Sd b/w News in Brief - New York - Circus Wedding Top shot circus ring with elephants and other circus performers. Joyce McDougal riding on elephant’s back enters ring - Bride to be dances Frug whilst elephant does headstand in background. 11:48:23 Centre ring - wedding ceremony. Prince Paul - circus midget - is ring bearer. Bride escorted to ring by Henry Ringling North. Bride and groom who is Moroccan acrobat. Circus performers in costumes watch ceremony. Bride and groom kiss. Bride kisses clown. LN 505-141 01:01:02 - 01:22:22 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 1 of 12 Cars pulling into parking area, multi-colored circus tent visible beyond trailers of performers. People walking along road. CU banner: To The Entrance. CU ticket booth & buying tickets; people, many Hispanic, walking int w/ kids. Employees sitting watching Spanish television on small tv beside sign advertising reptile show. 01:03:24 Spanish famliy buying tickets; other families at ticket booth. People thru entrance way. 01:06:15 Family w/ kid see camel, walk on past equipment & animals, giraffe, Family looking at truck cage. CU feet in dust.; watering down dust. Man carrying equipment. CU selling $1.00 preferred seats. 01:08:47 Crowd in tent watching from bleachers, grandstand (grainy). View of tigers in cage in ring performing w/ lion trainer. Crowd applauding. Tigers on platforms. Old couple (D.R. Miller, circus owner) watching. Tigers leaving cage. MCU of trainer Brad Jewell & tiger. Ringmaster. 01:11:52 Acrobatic jugglers w/ bowling pins, balls, hats. Faces of kids watching. 01:14:54 MCU woman clown w/ color balloons. CU buying peanuts w/ lottery prize in bag; winners get balloon from clown. 01:18:40 MCU announcer announcing Aztec acts. Asian elephant w/ woman standing on back in & around ring followed by Llamas, costumed people waving, woman on horseback. Four camels, three elephants w/ trunks holding tails. Clowns. Camels lead past cameraman looking from center to spectators. NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-141 01:22:31 - 01:40:20 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 2 of 12 Performers, clowns, elephants walking past seen from audience. CU kid in dad’s lap. Pseudo-Aztec costumes lethargic dancing in ring. Trapeze artists above all rings doing contortions, hanging & sliding down ropes to grouknd & walk out. 01:26:00 Five trained black horses performing in ring w/ woman trainer w/ whip. 01:29:29 Man w/ ponies waiting outside; woman on white horse. Feathered costumes on horses & several riders brought into ring. 01:30:53 Good LS of tent. CU flags on top, Trucks, ropes holding up tent; woman carrying sleeping baby seen thru ropes. 01:32:35 Horses tethered in sunrise or sunset; performer walking, horses feeding. People leaving; cleaning up manure w/ shovel. Performers. Tiger in cage. Performers running out of tent; others sitting talking. 01:34:32 Tigers pacing in cage; water thrown into cage to clean. Women acrobats incostuems standing talking. Men getting ready to take down canvas over exit. 01:37:55 Performers going in. Woman standing riding on bareback horse. 01;38:45 Trapeze artists performing; spinning by neck. Act ends. Performers walk past. NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-141 01:40:52 - 02:02:01 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 3 of 12 Performers balancing act prepare; jump onto teeter board & flip women on to shoulders. Four people high. 01:41:53 Balance on poles; two jump down & flip woman on top of three others. CU kids watching. Man flipped into chair on pole. 01:43;40 Dusk exterior. Woman in riding on elephant, leading others. CU feet. Dozen elephants performing tricks; circle ring. CU Elephants names on heads. Elephants balancing & turning. CU kids watching. Elephants lie down. Kids & families watching, applauding. 01:48:16 Parading out around rings w/ elephant’s trunks holding tail of elephant in front. CU feet in telephoto shot. GOOD. 01:50:59 Elephants leaving tent seen from outside. Handler talking to women in costume. Elephant eating hay; handlers putting blankets on them & riding carriage. CU trunk & eye. 01:53;00 Man puts costume cape on & balances baby, mother takes from guy as he goes into tent. Giraffe in cage; man w/ horse, patting. People leaving tent after show. Small hippopotamus in cage, wide-eyed kids. People heading to toilet truck. 01:55:57 People walking w/ balloons & sords etc from souvenir stand. 01:57:03 Elephant used to pull up stakes w/ chain on harness. LS & MCU. Good. 01:58:32 Tired looking crowd of people leaving tent. People riding elephants. Men starting to take down tent. 02:00:57 Inside tent as they are taking down equipment, poles & braces. 1990s; Entertainment; Trained animals; Big Top; 1993; NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-141 02:02:10 - 02:23:25 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 4 of 12 Elephants used to take down bleachers & loosen supports. Gathering trash; nearly empty center under tent. Men rolling side canvas & tying. Elephants pulliing supports w/ chain. Grandstand folded into trucks hydraulically. 02:06:10 Lighted interior; forklift used. Tent poles being removed. Slhouetted workers. Man coiling rope. 02:08:24 Elephant working pulling posts. Poles carried out, loaded on truck trailer. 02:10:30 Carrying & loading. View into tent w/ lights inside. 02:13:00 End flap down, view into tent. LS of tent. Pole & equipment trucks moving out of inside. Last supports taken out. Light moved. Elephant seen inside still pulling poles out. Two elephants in tight space. 02:19;50 Silhouetted workers. Last truck out of tent; loading poles, ropes. Elephant pulling down last poles & canvas droppign. Men taking out poles to truck. Canvas flat. 02:22:38 Men pulling canvas out flat w/ ropes; walk across pulling into half. NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-142 03:01:15 - 03:22:25 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 5 of 12; Ray Summers interviewing Louis Rizzuti (sp?), a Walla Walla local out to watch setting up. He used to work for Heckenbeck & Wallace side-show in 1930s during Depression. “...couldn’t go to town, had to stay w/ the tent. Set up the tent, then just take it easy.” (not too useful). 03:03:49 Sunrise silhouette. 03:04:38 Loaded circus truck pulling out slowly. Another onto road past & onto highway. 03:05:57 People & vehicles moving in field; trucks lined up. Pick up truck driving past trailers & trucks, honking to wake up drivers. Drv 03:09:28 Truck & restroom trailer pulling out. 03:10:57 Pickup & trailer leaving. 03:12:21 Along highway, trucks past w/ silhouetted hills behind before sunup. Other shots after sunup. 03:14:04 Trucks down sagebrush hills in eastern Washington. Various shots. 03:17:38 Low angle, better exposure. 03:18:15 Sagebrush hillside, truck past close. 03:18:35 Moses Lake, Washington. Trucks & trailers pull off road towards camera; people putting down blankets to watch. CU dog in window of RV van. Men roping posts from truck as it pulls in. Trucks guided into place. LN 505-142 03:22:40 - 03:44:56 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 6 of 12 Men unloading equipment, canvas, spikes. Pounding spikes w/ sledge hammer. Men carry pole sections on shoulders. 03:26:04 Pile driver driving tent posts. Men carry canvas on shoulders. Trucks pulling in. Men lay out canvas for sides of tent. 03:28:00 Elephant in truck. Keeper into truck, elephant picks up dust w/ trunk from alongside. Leg iron in truck visible. 03:29:00 Unloading bleacher sections. Elephant out of truck. Tiger in cage in truck moving in. Man attaching rope to canvas & post to unload main tent from roller in truck. Good coverage. Front of truck. 03:33:30 Low angle of canvas coming off truck. View of unloaded folded canvas in strip. CU final rope tie to core of roller in truck. 03:35:48 Elephant out of truck. men inline begin unfolding spreading canvas for big-top out, over support poles already laid out. People watch from background. Good low angle of 30 or 40 men in line pulling canvas out. Man carrying posts, pile driver in background driving posts for main tent. 03:39:18 CU man attaching braces for aerialist trapeze equipment. Nuts & bolts tightened. 03:42:37 Women cooking on griddle in cook trailer, frying bacon, meat. & ??. Mess tables under canvas shade. Signs for food prices. NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-142 03:45:04 - 04:05:49 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 7 of 12 Jamie Garcia, SOF: “It’s in my blood, & my daughter’s still working in the show, how can you quit? It’s like a football player...boxer, you can’t quit... It’s still in Winter Quarters, 12 hours a day from 8 in the morning till 10 o’clock at night...we work all year around, the performers leave but we still have to work all year round.” Talks about going to the circus on vacation. “...you can learn something, you can see something, you can make it better. You see new ideas in Europe...” Talks of daughter & wife working for circus. 03:48:04 Women employees at food counter getting coffee etc. 03:49:39 D.R. Miller talking about breakdown. About investment in trucks, tents: “Biggest investment right now is the elephants, you can’t buy ‘em; if you could they’d cost you probably $50 to 100,000. I used to buy ‘em for $35.00, $25 to $100 an elephant....you can’t get ‘em into the country... there’s none to be sold. Once in awhile, one was sold last year for $100,000.” Says he has 19 this year, one year 37. “I was going to carry 40 for my 40th Anniversary but I would’ve had to add another truck & I was short of help...” 03:51:50 You never thought of retiring...? “No, it’s too much fun, why retire?” 03:53:13 Woman walking two ponies, other horses picketed. Old trainer, Justino Loyal, leads them out & ties them up, breaks open hay & scatters. Little girl holding father’s hand watches; other kids looking as pony is saddled. Girls petting ponies. 03:57:45 CU 1993 Oklahoma trailer license plate. Line of camping trailers, men resting. 03:58:19 MS Men attaching ropes & raising tent sides, wearing masks against dust. Putting up poles inside from beginning end, view down tent. Elephant going inside; others wait outside. Elephant walked thru crowd. Elephant pulling up post. Ext. tent slowly rising. 04:02:50 Ext. view adjusting ropes as it raises. View from far end on ground as tent slowly raising. Man walks & lifted on canvas as it goes up NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-142 04:06:00 - 04:27:21 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 8 of 12 Men adjusting ropes on stakes around big-top. Int. w/ elephants & men. Owner watching in distance. View from far end, elephant pulling support pole into place. CU support moved. Pulling posts, placing trapeze apparatus, raising lights. Good sequence. 04:11:20 Owner D.R. Miller watching from chair. “...I just enjoy watching them do it...” “We started out w/ two trucks, four ponies & four girls & six people...” “First show we took in $8.” “My dad took out shows before; one in 1928 was successful, the others weren’t...” “...after we bought our first elephant we started doing better...” 04:14:19 Justino Loyal w/ kid & pony ride. Talks about 8 generations working w/ horses back to Napoleon, riding pyramids (Loyal Repensky Bareback Riders), daughter Lucy still riding. Talks about each person being good for one job, his is breaking horses. Says he’s 82, brought to US by Charles Ringling, April 1932, tells how he got him to give what he wanted. Liked pace in US of multiple shows. 04:19:48 Claire Anna Pettigrew, trapeze artist, talking about pace, joined as cook, wanted to be a performer since she’d danced as a little girl. Constant learning experience. Met husband w/ Ringling Brothers. “..this has a much more family atmosphere; Ringling has more big business atmosphere to it. This one, if someone gets hurt or breaks down, everybody’s there to help...more supportive here.” “...we have many, many family troupes of fifth, sixth, seventh & eighth generation performing together here...” 04:22:19 (background noise) Jeff Pettigrew talks about problems w/ rain on dirt-lot. “...every truck had to be pulled off...” Talks about getting job w/ Ringling w/ elephants & shovelled all day long for first year; working w/ animals after that. Talks about wanting people to see how they treat the animals. “You want to promote the education, the proper education & care we take of the animals to the public.” 1990s; Americana; Setting Up Big-top; Animals; Employees; Workers; Working Conditions; Happiness; 1993; NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-143 05:00:58 - 05:23:10 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 9 of 12 People buying tickets, colorful ticket both; LS & CUs. Ticket prices $8 & $5 on sign. CU roll of tickets. Woman buying two adults & one child plus program. 05:03:40 People going in thru entrance lines. LS people walking along tent & inside. 05:06:25 Walking past souvenirs. Woman selling preferred seating tickets. 05:07:53 Walking to seats. 05:09:02 Cotton candy vendor. Plastic inflated animals on pole being sold. Popcorn seller. 05:10:48 Circus popcorn boxes sold. CU kids. 05:12:00 Ringmaster Ross Rayborn. 05;12:25 Woman trapeze acrobat performing on bar. Two woman swinging on large bar; one swinging & pulling thru trapeze. Woman swinging vertically over. Ringmaster announcing performing giraffes (not seen). 05:14:30 Lions & tigers in center ring w/ William Bradley Jewell. CU thru bars. 05:15:49 Aerialist hanging by hair pulled up; other aerialists in other rings. On ground after lowered. Raised & twirling ribbons; juggling. Workers lowering by rope, then raising as she spins. 05:17:47 D.R. Miller in lawn chair w/ daughter Barbara Miller Byrd (?) standing. Riders, man & woman, performing on two horses, riding standing. 05:19:24 Woman (professional, see next tape) auditions for riding act w/ safety belt. Has trouble getting on horse. Finally falls off & swings around. 05:22:03 Man rides standing bareback. They try to get her back, she refuses. 1990s; Entertainment; Animals; Animal Training; Trained Animals; Toys; Consumerism; Big Top; 1993; NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-143 05:23:20 - 05:43:54 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 10 of 12 Woman tries bareback riding again, puts on safety belt. Gets up & bounces around then falls off; swings around ring to applause. Alfonso Loyal-Repensky Troupe riders take bow. 05:25:18 Tries one moer time & gets up, rides standing up & sitting down; she is part of the act. 05:25:57 Elephants performing, balancing. Seen past people walking. Elephant lays down, gets up. Woman riding on elephant. Leaving ring past camera in CU they stand on hind legs w/ women posing on their backs. Twelve elelphants stand on hind legs in row. 05:29:36 LS of tent & vehicles. Early morning, canvas flaps down. 05:30:14 People leaving tent after show. Flags blowing in wind, dust. Wide angle of tent. CU flags flapping. Ropes, man adjusting. 05:32:43 Horse acts in various rings. 05:35:36 Elephants perform in ring w/ handlers. Woman rides lead elephant around ring. Elephant crawls under another, then poses. Owner seen walking out. Elephants posing & turning on stands. Lay down, stand on hind legs; pose w/ women riding them out of tent. 05:39:31 re-start. Elephants ridden out of tent. 05:40:38 Owner, D.R. Miller, walking back in & standing watching from corner. Elephants finish circling tent, stand on hind legs in row w/ riders. Woman waving from back of elephant. 05:42:51 People leaving after circus. Top of tent w/ flags flying. 1990s; Entertainment; Animals; Animal Training; Trained Animals; Gags; Oddities; Big Top; 1993 NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-143 05:44:09 - 06:03:30 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 11 of 12 Employees stocking or packing souvenir toys. Outdoor scenes people looking at animals in pens beside trucks, dust blowing. 05:45:00 Daytime, Big Top partially taken down. Poles dropping. 05:46:37 B/W television monitor w/ videotape of circus act shown to & described by Justino Loyal of Alfonso Loyal-Repensky Troupe. Describing his performance riding bareback w/ brothers & sisters & jumping horse to horse; riding while standing on shoulders, one leg etc. ca 1951. 05:49:17 Justino Loyal, Italian rider, sitting w/ Ray Summers. Loyal-Reensky circus train cars. ship to Cuba etc. (Not useful). 05:55:03 Justino Loyal changing VHS tapes. Next tape: The Loyal Repensky Collection World’s Greatet Bareback Riders. Various family members in stills & footage. 1990s; Entertainment; Animals; Animal Training; Trained Animals; Gags; Oddities; 1993; NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. LN 505-143 06:03:44 - 06:14:45 USA 1993 SD COL [Carson & Barnes 5-Ring Circus] Pt. 12 of 12 Several shots, early morning light, circus trucks leaving, past on highway. 06:06:07 Pick-up & fifth-wheel trailer past, followed by circus trucks & others. Shot in telephoto on interstate highway past farmland. 06:10:26 Good shot w/ many trucks passing - good Circus sign visible on front of truck. 1990s; Entertainment; Animals; Animal Training; Trained Animals; Gags; Oddities; 1993; NOTE: Nearly all Carson & Barnes employees are Hispanic. X 221190 03:49:16 - 03:59:38 USSR 19?? SD B/W Ballad of Daghestan Pt. 2 of 2 INCLUDING: 03:52:42 Sons & relatives performing as circus acrobats on highwire. Woman also performs on tight wire dancing & twirling rings. Balancing act on highwire. Man plays traditional reed flute, others join in w/ drummer. 03:55:24 Still pictures of artist on trips to different countries. Memories in pictures. Including Duke Ellington & other jazz musicians? CU bell ringing. Conductor in front of orchestra on large stone porch. May be incomplete. Kymuk; Ethnic; USSR; Russia; Aviation - Early; Autobiography; WWII Heroes; X 221329 11:21:15 - 11:31:26 USSR 1958 SD B/W Russian News of the Day 1958 INCLUDING: 11:28:08 Stalingrad’s dam workers outside factory watch circus performance, acrobat does handstand on others head while climbing ladder; audience shots, trapeze artists spin from construction crane. 11:28:56 X 221412 22:30:21 - 22:40:47 USSR 1959 SD B/W Russian News of the Day 1959 #01 January INCLUDING: 22:39:41 Santa on horse drawn carriage arrives at children's New Year’s celebration in Sports Palace w/ big Christmas tree in middle of arena. CU trapeze acrobats performance, little girl smiling. 22:39:57 Live bear arrives on motorscooter, little girl smiles, LS bear on motorbike, acrobatic clown on trapeze, kids laugh, various shots of clown flying up & down, little boy watches w/ open mouth, laughing children. LS Roller skate performer. The End. 221514 08:44:00 - 08:49:30 USSR 1965 SD B/W Young Make Their Debut, The R1 of 2 08:44:30 Performers putting on costumes & make-up; musicians tuning; dancers warming up. Soviet Circus on Ice; ballet dancer Natalia Bessmertnova. Overhead skaters performing, raised on trapeze, dropping skirts & swinging onto trapeze & balancing. 08:46:51 Women performers coached and rehearsing. Acrobatics on ice rehearsing on skates w/ jumps & flips. Gags. 221514 08:49:30 - 08:58:06 USSR 1965 SD B/W Young Make Their Debut, The R2 of 2 Spotlight operator, three bears skating alone; bear in tutu skating as a couple w/ trainer. 08:50:01 Comedians, clowns. Aerialists spinning by teeth. Costumed dance troupe. 08:50:47 X 221190 03:59:52 - 04:10:07 USSR 1966 SD B/W The Vast Expanses of Russia INCLUDING: 04:07:38 Troika of horses pulling sleigh. Three bears on trapeze & boxing bears in circus. Kids laughing. Crying girl in CU. Ice skating troop in Father Christmas St. Nicholas costumes. Huge Moscow winter festival w/ parade & stilts. (GOOD) 04:08:22 X 221172 20:00:08 - 20:10:49 USSR 1971 SD B/W Russian News of the Day 1971 INCLUDING: 20:09:29 Moscow, high angle interesting domed building’s roof, people inside newly opened circus palace. People watch circus performance, 24th Communist party delegates watch the performance, Shots of various performances w/ trapeze acrobats, bears, horses, public smile & applaud. END. X 221171 18:26:10 - 18:36:45 USSR 1961 SD B/W Russian News of the Day INCLUDING: 18:35:16 ‘Guandunsky circus in Moscow’. Chinese circus performers in arena, Chinese girl welcomes public in Russian (SOF), audience applaud. Shots of various circus performances, big furry costumes, artists juggle w/ plates, men spin tables w/ their feet, acrobats climb poles & do group performances, public applaud. The End X 221407 13:04:17 - 13:14:57 USSR; Russia; 1958 SD B/W Russian News of The Day INCLUDING: 13:13:00 “Moscow’s Lenin Prize Circus, Youth festival” Special program in honor of Lenin’s Comsomol’s 40th anniversary. Performers in white outfits enter arena, applause, trapeze artists, audience smiles, applauds. Acrobat performs on parallel bars held by 2 men, applause, artists perform sliding & walking on the high wire, people look up, applause. Bows. the End X 221192 02:28:41 - 02:39:09 USSR 1959 SD B/W Russian News of the Day INCLUDING: 02:37:42 French circus in USSR, performance on rollerskates on round table, applause, circus artist spins w/ audience member, man helped down but so dizzy he can hardly walk. Trapeze artist performs; clown performance sets fire to clown’s hat, applause, man jumps rope on trampoline w/ hoop, applause; performers run hand in hand around the ring first one holds on to horses tail. The End. Animation; USSR Space Program; 221257 01:03:07 - 01:10:32 USSR 1972 SD COL A Time For Peace R1 Pt 2 of 2 INCLUDING: 01:08:19 St Basil’s Cathedral. Mrs Nixon meeting w/ people of Moscow; at Moscow circus - performing bear, audience applaud, watch high wire act w/ women balancing on wire-walker’s head, performing horses. GOOD. 01:09:04 For further information on viewing and ordering material, or to find out what more we may have relating to your project, contact us at info@footagefarm.co.uk or phone us on +44 20 7631 3773. Our staff is multilingual and you can write to us in English, French, German, Spanish or Russian. Back to Home Page>>>

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