Saturday, January 31, 2015

From Chic Silber



Solving the old question, "Just what had Yankee Doodle been drinking the time he stuck a feather in his hat and called it "macaroni"?

Buckles

From Paul Gutheil



AND A GRAND TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!

This Show Biz is All Right! #1



John and I posing with Don Curtis on that memorable day!

This Show Biz is All Right! #2



Milt Herriot, Dorothy Herbert and John Herriot.

This Show Biz is All Right! #3



My First Season On Tour!

This Show Biz is All Right! #4


Wallace Bros. Circus.

This Show Biz is All Right! #5


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Disneyland!

This Show Biz is All Right! #8


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Visiting the Herriots in 1970, their first season with the Ringling Show, on a busy Milwaukee Parade day!

This Show Biz is All Right #10



A high level conference on the Beatty Show lot.

This Show Biz is All Right! #11



Being congratulated on getting the Polack Show job.

This Show Biz is All right! #12



Hoxie Bros. Circus

This Show Biz is All Right! #13


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Friday, January 30, 2015

European Acts #1



We have a number of European viewers on the Blog, some of which might comment on these pictures.

European Acts #2



You may notice that this long mount is in a complete circle, quite unusual.

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European Acts #5


To Richard Reynolds



With apologies.......the lady is partially obstructing the view!

1937 Cole Bros. #46



The 1936-37 Cole Bros. souvenir programs should list the name of this wire act.

1937 Cole Bros. #47


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Clyde Beatty’s sequence appears at the end of this subject and, although it is quite brief, shows him to the best possible advantage.

1937 Cole Bros. #50


1937 Cole Bros. #51



The camera setups and lighting for this and the next image seem quite elaborate for something that was supposedly filmed during a live performance. Perhaps Paramount arranged with Universal to borrow some footage from Beatty’s 1933 feature THE BIG CAGE to give this sequence more dramatic value.

1937 Cole Bros. #52


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The film concludes with a dramatic shot of the circus train’s locomotive (seen in silhouette) speeding through the night to the next town.

1937 Cole Bros. #55



My 16mm sound print of THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN is the version that was released to the home movie market by Blackhawk Films. According to David Shepard, who now owns all of the old Blackhawk negatives, this film was licensed to Blackhawk by NTA, which had control over the old Paramount sound shorts. That license expired about 1972 and the film was later bought outright by Raymond Rohauer, the man who acquired the original negatives to many of Buster Keaton’s old films. It is now owned by the Cohen Collection, Rohauer's successor.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Bucky Steele #1



Thanks for the ID on the Bucky Steele Act.
Had I selected this picture first I could have spotted him in the background.

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Bucky Steele #4



Bucky did some remarkable things, as seen here with the Hamid-Morton elephants.
He told me one time that after death he wanted his ashes fed to his elephants since it had once been  a common practice to Worm them by feeding charcoal.

1937 Cole Bros. #34 (From Eric Beheim)


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This subject also includes footage that was filmed during a performance. These performance scenes go by so quickly, however, that they really need to be studied almost frame-by-frame to fully grasp what is being shown.

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I’m assuming that this is the summer wardrobe for the bull hands during the opening spec. (The daily laundry requirements for the Elephant Department alone must have been staggering.)



"At first glance I thought they were on the off-lead side."
Buckles

From Buckles


1937 Cole Bros. #41


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