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CWM FM 140
Original Format: 16 mm - Silent - Color
Running Time:8 minutes, 27 seconds 
Creator: Tom Scaperlanda
Title: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1955
 
Summary description in order of appearance
 

Banners on buildings
Laying out the lot
Elephant herd arriving on lot, 50 elephants lined up on lot
Sailmaker at work on canvas
Big top spread on ground
Watering elephants
Guying out the big top
Setting quarter poles inside big top
Panoramic sweep of entire show grounds
Backyard and back door scenes
Performers; merle Evans, Bob Dover, Emmett Kelly, Felix Adler, Pinito Del Oro
Heavy rain falling and draining off canvas
Midway panorama 
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