Circus Day in Our Town

This film has amazing footage of a circus coming into a town, the townspeople helping with construction of the circus tents, the clowns preparing for their performance and the variety of circus acts and the crowds viewing them. A circus train pulling into a station. Circus carts being rolled off the train. Elephants walking down train ramps. An elephant pulling up a long wooden pole with ropes. Men pounding in stakes with mallets A machine pounding in stakes. A group of men unrolling a large piece of canvas, pulling on the canvas. An elephant unrolling a bundle of canvas. A trailer that plays calliope music A sword swallower Man putting his clown face on, looking in a mirror a marching band two girls eating cotton candy dogs playing "basketball" with a balloon Crowd seated inside the "big top", clapping A rollerskating duo, man spins in circles while holding a woman by his teeth, she is spinning suspended in the air, twirling trapeze artists acrobats clowns, prancing horses, an aerial ballet woman in a tutu does a bareback act, clown in a bareback act, human pyramid on horseback tight wire dance, elephant act, elephant laying on a woman human bullets into the barrel of a cannon, shooting out into a net 13:17:01 Elephants coming out of boxcar 13:17:54 Father letting small child be nuzzled by circus elephant 13:18:35 Circus tent entrance 13:19:05 Sideshow entrance 13:19:17 Minstrel show tent 13:19:24 Little African American boys standing in front of minstrel show poster 13:19:28 Sword swallower 13:20:00 Clowns putting on makeup 13:30:17 MCU Clowns coming out of tent 13:21:17 Short crowd shot 13:21:19 Roller skating tricks 13:21:34 MLS Aerial lady acrobats 13:21:52 Group of acrobats in Russian costumes 13:22:22 MCU Clowns 13:23:37 MCU Horses rearing up right in front of trainer 13:23:47 Aerial ballet 13:24:24 Female bareback rider (in a tutu) 13:24:39 Clown falling (almost) off horse 13:24:56 More clowns on horseback 13:25:36 Man standing sideways on horseback (nice clear shot) 13:26:02 Clown walks off back of horse 13:26:38 Wobbly tightrope walker 13:26:59 Tightrope walker nearly falls 13:27:05 MCU Elephants feet and legs 13:28:18 Elephant gets on top of circus lady 13:28:28 CU Lady's face with elephant feet 13:28:42 Human cannonball preparation [crowd shot of kids] 13:28:54 More cannonball preparation 13:29:09 MLS Human cannonballs shoot out