| EVE AT THE CIRCUS Circus Scenes: Dancers and Elephants | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6736 | |
| Catalog #: | 429017 | |
| Clip Number: | 429017-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 115 | |
| Timecode: | 01:43:24 - 01:46:49 | |
| Location: | London, England | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ANIMALS/MAMMALS: Elephants ENTERTAINMENT/CIRCUS: Animals ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Theatrical ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Theatrical, Chorus Line ENTERTAINMENT/STUNTS: Animal LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London | |
| Description: | EVE AT THE CIRCUS Scenes from a circus at Olympia - Alfred Jackson's Dancers, Adele Nelson and her elephants etc. Olympia Stadium, London LS woman in many layers of fluffy skirt or scarves dances "en point" alone in ring. She does the entire dance on her toes, even kicks from squatting position like cossack dancers. Next Alfred Jackson's Dancers entertain w/ a kick line dance. Then dancers dressed in military style uniforms do a marching dance. 3 elephants dance on barrels in the ring while their co-performer acrobat Adele Nelson trots around in a big hat and short skirt. Also 2 men in ring helping. Then the elephants walk around the ring, but turning in circles all the while! Nelson sits on top of elephant while it places its front feet on the back of another elephant. Nelson plays teeter totter w/elephant! She goes flying up into the air sails over the elephant's back and is - sort of - caught by one of the men. One more trick: elephants walking around the ring holding each other's tails; suddenly Nelson goes streaking past in a tumbling series. Elephants all lift their trunks and nod their heads up and down as if in approval. | |
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