Circus World Digital Collections
  • Home
  • Audio Collection
  • Film Collection
  • Library Virtual Tours
  • New Page
CWM FM 1 
​Original format: 16mm - SILENT - Black & White, 50 feet
Running time: 1 minute, 36seconds
Creator UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL
Title: Seils-Sterling Circus, Mount Vernon, Missouri, circa 1931
 
Summary description in order of appearance:

Title screen: “Circus Tryout Surest Sign of Springtime”
Elephant pushing truck  
Bareback Riding act with Nellie Schroeder 
Menage Horse-Verna Lindeman 
Pony Drill
Elephant Act - BILLY SUNDAY (elephant) with Tusks and Lucy
-also in act one horse, one dog, and Edwin Klauder