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Knife throwing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Chipperfield's Circus Film, 1980 - 1992

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 16: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.159
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Posso. 20 minutes long. Silent, in colour. Compilation film, some possibly filmed by Noel Drewe. Includes Jimmy Chipperfield’s Circus World from the Dick Emert Show - Circus posters - Boxmoor Trust Lands 1980 build up for their last visit - John Chipperfield presenting Tigers - Dickie Chipperfield presenting Lions - Aerial Trapeze Dot - Liberty Horses - Anne Chipperfield’s Parrots - Ral Chipperfield presenting Elephants - Richard Chipperfield Senior...
Dates: 1980 - 1992
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Christopher Palmer Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0105
Scope and Contents

Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.

Dates: 1973 - 1983
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Circus Friends Association Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0122
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses

Dates: 1795 - 2020
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Films, 1927 - 2007

 Series
Reference code: 178D13
Scope and Contents

Compilation of circus films showing acts on the ring as well as interviews with performers and proprietors, mainly produced by tv companies in the UK and Europe. Many of them narrated in German.

Dates: 1927 - 2007
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection

Programmes, 1970 - 1981

 Series
Reference code: 178K41
Scope and Contents

Programmes for various British and international circuses including Billy Russell's, Blackpool Tower, Fossett's, Chipperfield's and the Toni Boltini's Circus.

Dates: 1970 - 1981
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Christopher Palmer Collection

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