BIG TOP AIDS CHARITIES Stars attend gala performance at Billy Smart's circus, sponsored by Variety Club.
This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA.	Tape Master:	5848
	Catalog #:	159223
	Clip Number:	159223-1
	Orginal Film:	61/88
	Timecode:	01:55:54 - 01:58:23
	Location:	London
	Year Shot:	1961 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	ANIMALS/MAMMALS: Elephants ANIMALS/MAMMALS: Horses ANIMALS/MAMMALS: Oxen ANIMALS/MAMMALS: Tigers CROWDS: Spectators ENTERTAINMENT/CIRCUS: Animals ENTERTAINMENT/CIRCUS: Entertainers
	Description:	"Big Top Aids Charities". Variety Club sponsor star gala performance at Billy Smart's circus. London. M/S woman in costume riding an elephant in circus parade . M/S man leading spotted ox with large horns. Shot of performers on stilts. L/S entertainment personalities arriving at big top. C/U Dennis Price. C/U Bootsie and Snudge (comedians?) C/U magician David Nixon. C/U C.J. Latta (Director of Associated British Pictures) and Billy Butlin (of Butlin's Holiday Camps). C/U film star Stanley Baker. Various shots television personality / comedian Bruce Forsythe with footballer (soccer player) Billy Wright and his wife, singer Joy Beverley. C/U film star Robert Beatty. L/S circus audience. M/S film star / comic actress Hattie Jacques and comedian Eric Sykes parading around ring. C/U Arthur Haynes and Bruce Forsyth having comic argument. L/S of decorated horses trotting around ring. C/U section of audience. L/S Seven Hervik acrobats dangling off rotating tower. View of audience where man is smoking a cigarette. M/S Great Henry Domis somersaulting on slender high wire. View of girls in audience, lady behind them is clapping. L/S Charlie Baumann with his famous tigers. C/U tigers inside cage. Brucie tries to persuade singer Dorothy Squires to go into the cage. Dorothy sings into a microphone inside tiger cage, she looks nervously around at the animals. C/U Brucie looking a bit worried. C/U tiger on a pedestal. Dorothy leaves the cage. M/S audience. C/U actor Jon Pertwee encouraging baby elephant to stick its trunk into a drink. M/S elephants performing in ring with girls sitting on their backs ("the Digger Pugh Elephant Girls"). C/U small child watching. Various shots of Burma the elephant stepping over row of men lying on ring floor. According to narrator they are all millionaires, amongst them is Billy Butlin.

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