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CWM FM 46


​Original Format: 16mm-SILENT-Color, 500 Feet
Running Time 18 minutes, 47 seconds
Creator: Father Ed Sullivan 
Title: ​ Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, New London, 1943

Summary description in order of appearance:
 

Backyard-wagons, floats, clowns
Back-yard, spec line up and Emment Kelly
Back-yard, performers and clowns
Back-yard, elephants and spec exit, aerial ballet & sitters
Back-yard, exit of floats
Back-yard, hand-balancer and other performers
Band on Liberty Bandwagon, spec, Two Jesters Calliope, elephants
Cage wagons, clown band, horses
Menage horse in back-yard performing
Back-yard cage wagons, entrance of sitters and aerial ballet
Inside the big top, web act
Public seated and Liberty horses
Spec inside big top
Elephants and clown walk-around (dark)
Inside big top, spec
Back-yard, clowns
Back-yard, wagons and spec props
Back-yard, performers and spec coming out
Menage horse 
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