Circus Day In Our Town (1949)

[Music] circus day for circus people just another day but it's different for all of you you just had to be at the station before sunup see us bring your favorite show back to town hi everybody well here's where Circus folks get to work horses out of their cars wagons to unload and get out to the circus grounds we're used to this do it every day in a different town here goes a load of tent poles got to be careful getting them down we can always use more helping here's Big blanch our largest elephant and leader of our herd tricks later on but right now they are off for the show grounds a mile or so away to help put up the big tent the biggest pole wagon is just coming onto the circus [Music] ground the elephants are right in time to be put to work work our circus men are on the job too along with a lot of folks from your own town here's Big blanch raising the center poles for the biggest tent of all the big top it will Tower 55 ft in the air here's one way we drive Stakes for tent rope and this machines another way we need hundreds of stakes to help hold the tents in place and keep them steady when the wind blows now canvas for the baked [Music] tent and watch this blanch is the smartest elephant in the herb she's the hardest worker in the whole show [Music] too can't say that for this fellow these big pieces of canvas will be laced together to make one big tent almost as long as a city block piece by piece the big tent is put together meanwhile our strong elephants are waiting to be called to their next job up go side pose around the edges and here's where the town boys can really help up goes the tent roof to the top and here's where blanch can really help she saves us a lot of time each morning the rest of the elephant herd is working [Music] too and now the big top is up canvas tightly stretched Flags waving up goes the main [Music] entrance we'll soon be going through it to the Big Show mat time here the steam copy playing here is where the Midway Begins the street of little tents with candy stands and S shows each with its own bar Step Up folks buy your tickets there's plenty of time to see the sides show before the mat goes on all the side shows on just one ticket [Music] yes folks it's Professor Brown and his Dixie Jubilee show and here's the man who likes swords for breakfast without an ounce of cream or sugar while you are seeing the side shows and buying your tickets for the MAA we are very busy backstage take our head clown for instance his face won't look that way after he's put on his clown [Music] paint now a circus clown likes to have a full half hour for putting on his face it may include a big rubber nose but he can do it all in 10 minutes if he's in a big hurry and we are in a hurry fellas because the big top is filling up with people so in they go big clowns and little clowns they're all different and they're all funny and they're happiest when they hear you [Music] laugh the show is on these are the only basketb ball playing dogs in the world their trainer is their referee [Music] here are the Iron Jaw roller [Music] skaters he holds her with his teeth alone and here's another kind of Iron Jaw stunt that takes place in the Big Top high over our head [Music] we are proud to have acrobats like these in our circuit and now watch him do a double Somers saw into that chair here come the clouds again say they've changed their costumes lots of clowns to keep us laughing while the three rings are being filled with beautiful prancing horses they March and drill and twos and threes just like soldiers for their training in the circus we call horses like these Liberty horses because they run free and perform without a rider a here is what we call an aerial ballet we make these girls practice a lot before we let them go up so high down below our train Ponies are having a race around the Hippodrome track and here comes a daring Rider driving 16 horses while she stands on the last [Music] two lots of action here this is one of the world's most famous bearback haacks yes this is a clown all right but he knows his way around horses just you wait and see the clown in a bearback act must first learn to be an extra good Rider and acrobat after that he can start clowning around like this here's a complete Sommers [Music] saw and here's a human pyramid on Horseback you can't do this with just any horse these horses are very carefully trained to caner around the ring at just the right speed that's important if you're turning a somersault or running to jump up on the horse [Music] the tight wire Act he's doing a Spanish dance right on the [Music] wire a difficult forward Sommers song well here they are again the same elephant you saw helping us put up the tents this morning but now they're all sleep picked up to do their [Music] tricks watch them keeping time to the music [Music] now look at this these elephants are playing London Bridge it's a tight squeeze but she can make [Music] it we circus folks think elephants like to do tricks and we know they are smart too [Music] he this elephant weighs almost as much as a fire engine here come the clowns around once more while our men put up a big neck we're coming to the most thrilling of the circus acts and it's dangerous too this girl and her brother are loaded just like human bullets into the barrel of the cannon watch for them look out here they come now our big show is over and late tonight we will load up hurry away keep a date in another town tomorrow morning