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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Circus World #15
The production staff appears to have studied DeMille’s TGSOE and then borrowed a few of the camera setups, like this one of the big top being lowered. |
Circus World #16
The plot has John Wayne emulating James A. Bailey by loading his circus onto a ship and taking it to Europe. Before it can be unloaded, however, the ship capsizes at its moorings, destroying everything before the film is barely 30 minutes old. (It was as if DeMille had wrecked the Ringling circus train at the beginning of TGSOE rather than at the end!) |
Circus World #17
The ship disaster provides an opportunity to work in that hoary old plot device of having a lion escape; something which was used in just about every vintage circus film you can think of. |
Circus World #18
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Circus World #19
As a means of a introducing a few additional circus scenes into the storyline, Wayne visits circuses in various European cities to scout talent for the new and bigger show he hopes to frame. |
Circus World #21
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Saturday, November 09, 2013
50 YEARS AGO!
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From Chic Silber
Hi Buckles Maybe you could add this to today's stuff This is Trolle Rhodin's family's show Cirkus Brazil Jack mentioned by Vincent |
Cirkus Scott #1 (From Vincent Manero)
Here is a few photos of the Swedish Cirkus Scott produced by Robert Bronett. I took these pictures in Södertälje. This industrial city, about 30 kilometers (19 mi) southwest of Stockholm is the home to truck maker Scania. The performance takes place in a large eight poles tent. However the seating area is located only in the half of this tent. The other half houses the Circus concessions and other activities such as pony rides and Elephant photos. The show was presented by Robert Bronett himself and featured many quality acts, a show ballet and a very fine Circus band (this is the same band that plays the Circus Krone building in Munich during the Winter). |
Cirkus Scott #2
On one of the photo you can see that the Cirkus Brazil Jack was playing the same lot two days after the Cirkus Scott. Strange schedule in such a big country. |
Cirkus Scott #7
Lars Hölscher – Elephants « Sonja » and « Wanna Banna ». Sonja, 38 y.o., is Europe's oldest performing African Elephant. Lars Hölscher created an original presentation that was very welcomed by the public. I must also add that the care these Animals get is absolutely first class. They are housed in an over 2000 square feet tent. |
Friday, November 08, 2013
A Real Trouper!
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Thursday, November 07, 2013
Osa Johnson #1 (From Eric Beheim)
A few weeks ago, Buckles posted some frame enlargements from I Married Adventure, the film version of Osa Johnson’s 1940 autobiography which describes the experiences she shared with her husband Martin while exploring and making documentary films in Africa and the Pacific Islands. As a follow-up, here are a few of the photos that appear in Osa’s book. This first image of Osa and a tame zebra was taken in 1921 on the couple’s first trip to Africa. |
Osa Johnson #2
During one of their early expeditions, the Johnsons and their equipment were literally dumped onto a Solomon Islands beach amid some curious cannibals/headhunters who had never before seen a white woman. (Judging from Osa’s expression, she was none too happy with her situation at the time!) |
Osa Johnson #3
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Osa Johnson #4
While filming in Borneo’s Kinabatangan Jungle in 1917, Osa learned that it was safer to drink from a “water vine” than from the local rivers and creeks. |
Osa Johnson #5
Charlie Chaplin provided the Johnsons with a print of one of his comedies, which they later showed to the cannibals, much to their delight. |
Osa Johnson #6
To add a lighter touch to one of their African films, the Johnsons “borrowed” this baby giraffe for a close-up before returning it to its mother and the herd. |
Osa Johnson #7
The Johnsons once shared a safari lunch with the Duke and Duchess of York, who would later became the King and Queen of England after the Duke’s brother Edward abdicated in 1936. (For those of you who don’t keep up with “the royals,” their daughter Elizabeth is the current Queen of England.) |
Osa Johnson #8
Osa and the Duchess of York who, when this picture was taken, probably never dreamed that one day she would be a regular royal queen. |
Osa Johnson #9
Osa and Martin with some of the cameras they used to film their documentaries. Although Martin liked filming wild animals up close using a normal lens, it appears that some early telephoto lenses were also part of the equipment they packed along. |
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Wow!
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Good to be home!
I have finally hobbled back into my computer room a little older and wiser. |
Monday, November 04, 2013
Saturday, November 02, 2013
Friday, November 01, 2013
Surgery Went Well
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