Circus Wakes Up
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Duration: 11
Genre: Educational
Year Published: 1949
Creator: Sterling Films
Format: 16mm
Color: B&W
Sound: sound
Description: Shows the morning activities on a circus lot with a horse feeding her colt, elephants drinking water, lions eating, and monkeys playing. Pictures the trapeze performers and the jugglers rehearsing their acts while the lions, horses, and elephants also practice., Shows the necessary preparations for the day's performance of the circus, including feeding, bathing and rehearsing of animals, and the learning of new tricks, stunts and comedy routines.
Transcription
[Music] it's early in the morning the cir is just waking up let's go along and watch we don't need any tickets now but we must be sure to leave before the Big Show starts before long this young performer will be prancing in the center ring but right now all he wants is [Music] breakfast jumbo and Daisy get a fresh pale of water instead of orange juice are they thirsty the pony Gets a Haircut and so does his trainer everybody's cleaning up look Jumbo's getting a shower did you ever see anyone enjoy a bath more and now under the big top rehearsals are starting first the jugglers this always looks easy can't understand why it never works when I try it here comes Thunder the Wonder Horse it takes practice patience and a piece of sugar to teach her the tricks that maker one of the greatest circus horses in the [Music] world and now here's a really hard trick walking backward on our hind [Music] legs young acrobats have to learn their ABCs too 1 2 3 oops back to the center ring where we can see jumbo the elephant rehearsing jumbo is the special favorite of the boys and girls you should hear them laugh when he answers the telephone [Music] high up in the circus tent the flying manelas are rehearsing their act even when they practice they must be perfect everything must be exactly right [Music] [Music] I'm out for lunch nothing much just a light snack [Music] [Music] here comes the trainer to talk to his lions [Music] [Music] he's saying Brin good boy good fellow he uses kindness and gentleness with his Lions no commands no chairs no whip cracking [Music] foree spee foreign fore speech fore [Music] rehearsals are over under the Bop everyone is preparing for the great show the arena is covered with sawdust the clowns get ready [Music] costumes are put on [Music] to [Music] they are ready to start and now it's time for us to leave but we've seen a part of the circus that no one with tickets ever gets to see we've seen a c [Music]
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