Thursday, April 16, 2009

Blue Show 1970 #23


Ringling 100-47, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 4/16/2009 06:15:00 AM

2 comments:

Buckles said...

The baby elephant on the back track is "Karen" followed by "Targa" with fake tusks and a blanket bearing the name "Jumbo".
Notice the calliope has to cut thru the end ring, the reason being the modern arena is designed accommodate Ice Hockey and big spec floats couldn't make it around the floor plates.
This problem has been ingeniously resolved by not only eliminating big spec floats but the rings themselves.

16 April, 2009 06:53
Jack Ryan said...

The show recorded some music on the huge carillon of the Washington Cathedral to pipe through that float during spec.

It never really worked too well. Recording and playback techniques in those days were vastly inferior to what could be done today.

16 April, 2009 08:52

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