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                                                    CWM FM 30

 
                                                             Original Format: 16mm Black & White/Color
                                                             Running Time: 14 minutes
                                                             Creator: Unknown 
                                                             Title: COLE BROS. CIRCUS-Springfield, Illinois 1941

                                                             Summary description in order of appearance

                                                             BLACK AND WHITE FOOTAGE
                                                             Introduction and backyard 
                                                             Inside big top-spec 
                                                                     Con Colleano tight wire act 
                                                                     Rieffenach bareback troupe 
                                                                     Perch act 

                                                             COLOR FOOTAGE                                        
                                                             Train scenes-moving loaded train-great 
                                                             Elephants-herd walking in street 
                                                             Runs-unloading flat cars at runs 
                                                             Lot scenes-setting up 
                                                             Backyard scenes during performance 
                                                                     Dorothy Herbert - posing
                                                                     Cowboy Juan Lobo
                                                                     Clown Otto· Griebling-juggling plate
                                                                     Clown Art Borella-clown cow
                                                                     Garland entry disbanding
                                                                     Spec entering and breaking up


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