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.