Solving the old question, "Just what had Yankee Doodle been drinking the time he stuck a feather in his hat and called it "macaroni"?
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
From Chic Silber
This Show Biz is All Right! #9
Visiting the Herriots in 1970, their first season with the Ringling Show, on a busy Milwaukee Parade day!
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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.
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1937 Cole Bros. #49
Clyde Beatty’s sequence appears at the end of this subject and, although
it is quite brief, shows him to the best possible advantage.
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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.
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1937 Cole Bros. #54
The film concludes with a dramatic shot of the circus
train’s locomotive (seen in silhouette) speeding through the night to the next
town.
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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.
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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.
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1937 Cole Bros. #38
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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1937 Cole Bros. #40
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
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