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CWM FM 45

​​Original Format: 16mm-SILENT-Color, 500 Feet
Running Time 17 minutes, 48 seconds
Creator: Father Ed Sullivan 
Title: ​ Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, “the Good Old Times,” 1952

Summary description in order of appearance:
 
Title:  The Greatest Show on Earth
Performers leaving railroad coaches
Loaded railroad flatcars arriving
Ringmaster (dark)
Spectacle (fair)
Roller skating, the Heirolls
Low wire, the Great Linares
Liberty horses
Ladders and single trapeze, Pinito del Oro
Otto Griebling and Emmett Kelly, clowns
Rola-Bola, and unsupported ladder
Dieter Tasso on Slack wire with cups and saucers
Manege horse
Bike act
Side show (dark)
Clowns, Paul Jung’s Misfit Army
Dash-hounds act, probably Nana Woolford’s Dogs
Clown from Mars
Clown car unloading, Lou Jacobs
Six jugglers, the Bakers


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