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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. Super 8, Auto-reel. 300 feet, Pathe. In Colour, with Sound.

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Super8, Pathe Pictorial. 50 feet. In Colour, with Sound. Outdoor scenes at Watford, Knutsford Recreation Ground, Hertfordshire. Features lions, juggling and clowns. Possibly filmed by Noel Drewe.

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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. 380 feet, The L-KO Company. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films and TV programmes. Includes; Gale Henty in 'Movie Mad'. Lex Barker in 'Tarzan's Hidden Jungle'. Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan, John ‘Dusty’ King and Max ‘Alibi’ Terhune in 'The Range Busters'. Howard Winstone vs Mitsuri Seki boxing. Charles Chaplin on the farm with Paddy McGuire in 'The Tramp'. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. George Harrison Marks. 350 feet. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Pearl White in 'Perils of Pauline'. Stan Laurel in 'Roughest Africa'. Ken Maynard in 'The Masked Phantom'. Ben Turpin in 'The Stuntman'. Al St. John in 'The Iron Mule'. Joe Boo and Pete in 'Dog Heaven'. Also features comedy car, Ken Maynard with Girl and wild animals in South Africa, birds in Chessington Zoo, and lady from...

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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. 400 feet, 30 minutes long. 'Chessington Zoo Animals' filmed by Reg Charman. It’s the Circus features Bertram Mills.

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8mm, 250 feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davies in Down to Earth extract from 'Never Weaken'. Bobby Vernon in 'Broken China'. Charles Chaplin in 'A Dog’s Life'. Laurel and Hardy in 'A Close Shave'. Jay C. Flippen and James Stewart in 'Winchester 73'. Also features a scene with Snooky the Chimp. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 225 Feet. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Harold Lloyd in Down to Earth extract from 'Never Weaken'. Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan, Dusty King and Max ‘Alibi’ Terhune in 'The Range Rides'. Laurel and Hardy in 'Wrong Again'. Also features 'Bush Walkabout' presented by David Attenborough, as well as zebra and a man diving into pool.

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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. 350 Feet. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; scenes starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters. Text Williams in 'Prairie Pirates'. Charles Chaplin and Albert Austin in 'One AM'.

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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 16mm, G.B. Equipment Ltd. 8 minutes long. Black and White, with Sound. Includes Chessington Zoo, and Lord George Sanger's Football Dogs. Copied to DVD 2 and DIGI-BETA.

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A large collection of films entitled Circusama containing amateur and professional films on the themes of circus, performing animals and zoos, and edited clips from commercial Western and comedy films. FIlms are in a variety of formats including 8mm, Super8, 9.5mm and 16mm. Also includes a small collection of sound reels mainly containing fairground music, and correspondence and notes relating to the films.

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VHS PAL. Compilation of films collected and filmed by Noel Drewe.

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8mm. A film by Noel and Frank Drewe. Some in Colour, some Black and White, all Silent. Kent Seaside, Folkstone, Clacton, Southsea. Prewar Period. Handwritten insert in labelled envelope within box. This film also features Noel's brother and possibly other family members.

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8mm, Kodascope Eight. A film by Noel Drewe and his father Frank. Battersea fun fair, Southend-on-Sea. Possibly two films on here, one in Colour, one Black and White, both Silent. Hand written insert is in a separate, labelled envelope within box. Immediate Post War Period. Copied to DVD 5 and DIGI-BETA.

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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Perry's Movies Ltd, 1907. 75 feet, 5 minutes long. De Chomon, Segundo. Stock mark indicates 1951 or 1971. Print from 28mm Pathe Freres Films. Copied to DIGI-BETA.

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8mm, Lone Star Corporation. 200 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Commercial film, starring Charles Chaplin. Opening scene includes Albert Dustin as a cab driver. The reminder of the film features Chaplin doing a solo comedy routine.

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8mm, Hal Roach Studios. 200 feet. Black and White, Silent. Commercial film. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

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Safety Film. 9.5mm, Pathescope.

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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Includes; Paris Revue comedy sketch. Performing pig and cattle in Portugal. African elephants and lions at Krugel Park, South Africa. Ken Maynard. Mountain animals. Tom Mix Destry. High and Dizzy Leon Errol. Dorothy Granger and Irma Trude The Chiken. Penguins from Chessington Zoo. John Wayne in Stagecoach. George Bancroft and Thomas Michael in Paris Revue finale.

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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. 200 feet. Silent, in Colour. Includes scenes from the Savoy Theatre and Circus scenes. Possibly filmed by Noel Drewe. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

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Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. VHS PAL. Silent, in Colour. Includes scenes from the Savoy Theatre and Circus scenes. Possibly filmed by Noel Drewe.