Circus Films, c1950 - 1959
Scope and Contents
Copy of film on DVD showing scenery and cities around the world including Berlin, China, Paris, New York City, Coney Island, women lifting weights on the beach, acrobatics, scenes at Clyde Beatty circus and elephants at Sarasota among others. Also people ice skating, people on a cruise ship, a plane taking off, a lorry on fire, people parachuting from a metal contraption, warships being sunk, a street festival in Africa, a football match, scenes in India including a burial, a female trampoline act, magic, some trapeze, acrobatics and weight lifting on the beachin California, also footage from a Finnish circus showing a trapeze act, animals, jugglers, clowning, equestrian acts, female aerilists, Chinese contortionists and wild animal acts. Colour and black and white, mostly silent, some narration and background music towards the end in English and Finnish.
Dates
- Creation: c1950 - 1959
Creator
- Pugh, Digger, c1902 - 1985 (Person)
- Pugh, John Wallace, Born 1938 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Items are available to view by appointment in our reading room
Conditions Governing Use
Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of National Fairground and Circus Archive, subject to copyright law and condition of the material
Extent
1 Item(s)
Language of Materials
Finnish
Arrangement
Catalogued according to type
Subject
- Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) (Organisation)
Cultural context
Occupation
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
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