CWM FM 326
The extended length of this footage has required this film to be broken into four parts. 
 Part 1

                                                           Part 2

                                                          Part 3

                                                        Part 4

                                                            Original Format:  Black/white, silent, 16mm film
                                                            Running Time:  approx. 60 minutes
                                                            Creator: DeBaugh, Dan  
                                                            Title: “Dan DeBaugh presents the World’s Largest Circus in Action.”

                                                            Dan Debaugh was an advertising man from Chicago who had worked on the Ringling Bros 
                                                            and Barnum & Bailey Circus prior to setting up his own agency. This film is possibly an advertising         
                                                            reel for the circus, with footage taken from several years between 1928 and 1933.  

                                                            The extended length of this footage has required this film to be broken into four parts. 
 
                                                                Summary description in order of appearance:

                                                                Part 1
                                                            Introductions 
                                                            Circus train, loaded flat cars, canvas covered cannon truck, etc. 
                                                            Unloading horses from railroad stock cars 
                                                            Circus train, more loaded flat cars 
                                                            Setting runs, unloading wagons from flats, pull-away team 
                                                            Baggage horse teams ready to start day’s work at train 
                                                            Unloading elephants, camels, ring stock horses from stock cars 
                                                            Light plant wagon 
                                                            Sideshow bally, bannerline, Hawaiians, Clyde Ingalls “talking” 
                                                            Office wagon, executives
                                                            Spreading big top canvas, activity on showgrounds 
                                                            Stake driver, sledge gang, lacing big top, laying it out 
                                                            Menagerie tent partway up, pushing in quarter poles in the big top, rain clouds 
                                                            Muddy lot scenes 
                                                            Backyard, unloading props., carrying aerial rigging into big top 
                                                            Elephant herd and George Denman, lead stock, Chicagoskyline, elephants 

                                                                Part 2
                                                            Crowded midway, large crowds, happy kids 
                                                            Hippopotamus den pushed by elephant
                                                            Panoramic sweep of entire circus grounds, the “canvas city” 
                                                            Red office wagon, washday, “connections,” ticket wagon window
                                                            Backyard, tournament, readying, entering, breaking up: “Garland entry” 
                                                            Clyde Beatty Wild Animal Act (taken at Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus and spliced in here) 
                                                            Goliath the giant sea elephant 
                                                            John Ringling 
                                                            Clowns 
                                                            Monkeys
                                                            Ubangis walking on hippodrome track inside tent 
                                                            Clown fire department 
                                                            Inside the dining tent 
                                                            Aerial bar act 

                                                                Part 3
                                                            Lillian Leitzel the featured aerialist performs
                                                            Merle Evans and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus band 
                                                            Maximo the Merry, slack wire artist 
                                                            Rubio Sisters acrobatics 
                                                            Rieffenach Sisters doing their bareback act 
                                                            Ella Bradna performs “The Act Beautiful” 
                                                            Rearing horse 
                                                            Albert Powell, aerial trapeze and contortionist wonder 
                                                            Con Colleano,“Torreador of the Tight Wire” 
                                                            Rellmuts high wire act 
                                                            Flying Codonas, flying trapeze act, including the passing leap and triple somersault by Alfredo Codona 
                                                            Backyard scenes, including dancing gaited horse 

                                                                Part 4
                                                            Winter quarters scenes in Florida, various and misc.