Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Dixons. 300 Feet, Paramount Pictures. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; 'King of the Jungle' starring Buster Crabbe. 'Wireless Lizzie' starring Walter Hiers. Lupino Lane in' Movieland Mixup', Three Little Bruins Make Mischief, Calgary Stampede, The Music Box and 'The Pianola' starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Hall and Billy Gilbert.

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films including western Scenes, Uncle’s Tea Party, Heather Rose, Haunted Gainsborough, Ken Maynard, Sell it, Lovenest on Wheels, Two Girls, A Fishy Caveman Story, A Stone Age Romance, and Flying Elephants starring Harrions Marks, Ken Maynard, Heather Rose, Buster Keaton, Walter Long, and Laurel and Hardy. Also includes 'Spell it' by Stuart Wynn Jones and an extract featuring Lupino Lane.

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Charlie Rings the Bell from 'The Fireman' starring Charlie Chaplin. 'Cave Inn' starring Ralph Graves. Round 8 and finale of the World Featherweight Boxing Championship between Howard Winstone and Mitsuri Seki. 'Tarzan’s Hideout' starring Elmo Lincoln.

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 300 Feet. In colour with sound including the Mad World of Mack Sennett, Chip the Fireman, Hopalong Cassidy, and Lion and Bear at Chessington, supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Various items of ephemera.

Various items of ephemera.

1/4 audio reel. Digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sounds Heritage project by the British Library.

1/4 audio reel. Digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sounds Heritage project by the British Library.

Ipswich, Bourne Park Arena. Colour illustration of a falling acrobat reaching for another's hands, colour photographs of a man walking a wire and a neoclassical arch, background yellow and black, type multicoloured

Ipswich, Bourne Park Arena. Colour illustration of a falling acrobat reaching for another's hands, colour photographs of a man walking a wire and a neoclassical arch, background yellow and black, type multicoloured

Ipswich, Bourne Park Arena. Colour illustration of a falling acrobat reaching for another's hands, colour photographs of a man walking a wire and a neoclassical arch, background yellow and black, type multicoloured

Colour illustration of blond man leaping into another man's hands in the air, a circus ring on the bottom section with circus master, a blue border and pink, yellow, red and blue type on the front cover, inside poster showing colour photographs of circus performers and acts on a yellow background, on back cover programme with circus performers around the edges, 2p.p.

Programmes for the Continental Circus Berlin shows in Great Britain.

Cork, 6 to 8 May. Cecil Sheridan comedy act, Hiawathas performing prairie dogs, Mickser Reid, Oe La La, Tschen Maa, John McCormack and Co, Marko Kolo, Krusser's Troupe of midget ponies, Vera Morgan, Miss Elsa Rath, Carlo Miazanos, The Sherran Troupe of cowboys and Indians, Anneta. Red and black type on yellow background and black and white photographs of acts. Printed by Lee Press, Cork

Electron electricity act, George, Alba and Ruth roller balance, Mandy and Sandy dog act, Harry Ruster high stilts, The Ballet of the Devil and the Lost, clowns, Dusty dog act, The Keystones hand balancers, Hector 'the almost human horse', Madame Zelda cartoon artiste, Sultan. Background white, type blue and red. Left blank for adding location and date. Printed by G W McKane and Son, Reliance Works, Keswick

Basingstoke, Wote Street, Haymarket Theatre. Background yellow, type red and black. Printed by Allison, Printer, Wollaston