Days of Thrills and Laughter, A Night at the Show, Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle, What Price Taxi, Three Little Bruins Make Michief, and Hopping Mad Film, c1907 - 2001

Item — Box: Noel Drewe Box 27

Reference code: 178D5.261

Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Robert Youngson Productions. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Charles Chaplin in pies and hosepipes extract from 'A Night at the Show'. Lupino Lane as the studio dummy in 'Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle'. Clyde Cook, Franklyn Pangborn, Geneva Mitchell and Billy Gilbert in 'What Price Taxi'. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in 'Hopping Mad'. Also features Scottish pipe band and African animal scenes.

Dates

Creation: c1907 - 2001

Creator

Drewe, Noel, Active 1927 - 1995 (Circus Enthusiast) (Person)

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