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(Untitled record)

Date released

6 Aug 1928

Series name

Pathe Pictorial

Issue no

540

NoS ID

348028

Story no

3 / 5

NoS synopsis: a farm which supplies Zoos and circuses with animals

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Four Towns and a Circus (1995 Video)

Producer

Stephen Wilkinson

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Look behind the scenes at the problems and difficulties of running Chipperfield’s Circus, the last of the animal circuses still touring Britain. Follows Tony Hopkins, the circus’s director, going about...

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Gerry Cottle and his travelling theme park (1993)

Genre

Interview

Circus owner Gerry Cottle on his new venture, Xanadu, a travelling theme park, which opens in Wandsworth today. Following years of protest from animal rights campaigners and bans by local authorities he has...

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Profile: Gerry Cottle, circus proprietor (1984)

An interview with the circus proprietor Gerry Cottle. He talks about his life and his career. He says that he is not from a circus family, but he started to be interested in circuses as a child. In the...

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Moroccan Fantasia

Date released

28 Sep 1967

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

666

NoS ID

121921

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Snake-charmers, acrobats, African dancers, mystics, story-tellers: the ingredients of one of the strangest open-air circuses in the world - The Square of the Dead in Marrakech, Morocco....

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Circus World Championship (1977)

Genre

Interview; News report

Paul Woodley? interviews Karl Wallenda(?)(walked across Thames on high wire) on his part in Circus World Championships.

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Final show for Billy Smart’s Circus (1986)

Genre

Interview

Billy Smart (Junior) on the final show of his circus, and the sale of mementos. Male interviewer not identified.

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Clown apprenticeship (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Paul Holmes, about receiving a clown apprenticeship via the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) because of his lack of height. Female interviewer not identified.

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Circus world championships (1977)

Genre

Interview; News report

Paul Woodley reports on Circus World Championships. Publicity officer explains how the competition works. Also interviews high wire performer Karl Wallenda(?) and Greg Friel trapeze artist.

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First circus championships (1978)

Genre

Interview

Bob Holness interviews Norman Barrett about his role as ringmaster at the first world circus championships. Also includes interview with an American female acrobat (not identified). Sound is in mono.

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