Circus

Circus Krone Programme, 1980

Item

Reference code: 178K41.34

Scope and Contents

Various artists including Oleg Popov, clown. Contains illustration on cover and photos, 44p.p.

Dates: 1980

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Christopher Palmer Collection / Programmes

Circus Krone Programme, 1996

Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 47: Series 178K44; Series 178T42

Reference code: 178K44.144

Scope and Contents

Programme for circus run December 1996 - January 1997. Front cover is black with a golden crown featuring animal circus acts.

Dates: 1996

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Smart Family Collection / Programmes

Circus Life and It's The Circus Film, c1945 - 1960

Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 2: Series 178D5

Reference code: 178D5.12

Scope and Contents

Circusama and Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathescope. 100 feet, 4 minutes long. In Colour, with Sound. Includes Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia and on tour in other locations. 'It's the Circus' part one and two are edited together to make one film.

Dates: c1945 - 1960

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Circus Life Film, c1945 - 1990

Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 7: Series 178D5

Reference code: 178D5.53

Scope and Contents

16mm, Kodak. 400 feet, 16 minutes long. Black and white. Includes Bertram Mills Circus. Titles missing. Copied to DVD 4 and DIGI-BETA.

Dates: c1945 - 1990

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Circus Life Film, 1958

Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 9: Series 178D5

Reference code: 178D5.67

Scope and Contents

Circusama and Yesterdays Circus Today. 16mm, Cecol. 400 feet, 11 minutes long. Colour with sound. Includes Bertram Mills Circus. Copied to DVD 3 and DIGI-BETA.

Dates: 1958

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Circus Life No. 3, Whirlings, Circus and Vintage Thrill Makers 'Circus Edition' Films, c1927 - 1989

Item

Reference code: 178D13.5

Scope and Contents Vintage Video Productions, Peak Film Productions. Colour and black and white, sound and background music. DVD 1 'I Want to be a Lion Tamer', documentary narrated in English by Zac Radcliffe who talk about life in Whirlings circus, shows the circus travelling, setting up, acts in the ring and back stage scenes c1980s, 'Here's the Circus' documentary, scenes in black and white, narrated in English, c1950s-c1960s, 'American Circus Life Vol 2', black and white scenes of circus performers,...

Dates: c1927 - 1989

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Films

Circus Lion Photograph, c1880 - 1889

Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 1: Series 178C114

Reference code: 178C114.103

Scope and Contents

Photograph of a circus lion in a beast wagon cage.

Dates: c1880 - 1889

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Sanger Circus Collection / Photographs

Circus Lists Research Material, 1938 - 1951

File

Reference code: 178B30.18

Scope and Contents

Booklets containing lists of British and European circuses with brief descriptions and lists of their acts, also contain newspaper cuttings, the 1938 booklet contains loose pages by Hal Thomas (David Harold Thomas). Typescript.

Dates: 1938 - 1951