Monday, June 20, 2011

Winter Quarters #21

Posted by Picasa

Posted by Buckles at 6/20/2011 06:10:00 AM

4 comments:

Mike Naughton said...

Thanks to IMDB.com for confirming the first line in the movie, voice over by narrator:

We bring you the circus, pied piper whose magic tunes greet children of all ages, from six to 60, into a tinsel and spun-candy world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter and whirling thrills; of rhythm, excitement and grace; of blaring and daring and dance; of high-stepping horses and high-flying stars. But behind all this, the circus is a massive machine whose very life depends on discipline and motion and speed. A mechanized army on wheels, that rolls over any obstacle in its path, that meets calamity again and again, but always comes up smiling. A place where disaster and tragedy stalk the big top, haunt the backyard, and ride the circus train. Where death is constantly watching for one frayed rope, one weak link, or one trace of fear. A fierce, primitive fighting force that smashes relentlessly forward against impossible odds. That is the circus. And this is the story of the biggest of the big tops, and of the men and women who fight to make it "The Greatest Show on Earth."

20 June, 2011 08:22
dpowhitetiger said...

In the far background is the huge Train Barn. The JOMAR is park under the roof with open sides just prior to the trzin barn..

20 June, 2011 10:06
Eric said...

The opening narration that Mike has provided was spoken by DeMille himself. After years of hosting the Lux Radio Theater radio show, his voice was as well known across America as the President’s, and beginning with NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE in 1940, he did all the voice-overs for his films. The midway barker with the microphone who speaks the film’s closing lines is actor Edmond O’Brien.

20 June, 2011 10:12
Frank Ferrante said...

I don't think that Edmund O'Brien, who was the narrator at the end of the film, the narrator for this opening voice over was the one and only DeMille. In looking through the IMDB cast list, it looks like anyone who was working on the Paramount lot when they shot the studio interiors was included as a spectator. Some of the ones that surpirsed me were Bob Crosby, (Bing's brother), Noel Neill (Lois Lane on the "Superman" series.) and an unconfirmed Van Johnson. ~frank

20 June, 2011 10:28

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)