| HOSPITAL CIRCUS Billy Smart's Circus do a show at St Mary's Hospital in Portsmouth | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6003 | |
| Catalog #: | 36018 | |
| Clip Number: | 36018-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 34 | |
| Timecode: | 01:02:36 - 01:04:16 | |
| Location: | Portsmouth, Hampshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1955 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/CIRCUS: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Hampshire, Portsmouth | |
| Description: | HOSPITAL CIRCUS Billy Smart's Circus do a show at St Mary's Hospital in Portsmouth. The Billy Smart Circus performs at St. Mary's Hospital in Portsmouth, to entertain a little girl who was mauled by a bear when she sneaked into the circus' animal cages and tried to pet the animal. St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, Hampshire. MSs crowd of patients and hospital personnel outdoors on the grounds - -children in beds, nurses sitting with them, other nurses, parents etc stand in back. CU A little girl with bandage over her eye smiling a big smile with missing teeth - -this of course is Miss Ruth Reed the animal lover. MS Camera following elephant with young woman riding on it, as it is led in by ringmaster. LS The girl on elephant heading away followed by other elephants. MS Children watching. Elephant in ring with man and woman; MS The ringmaster getting elephant to lift its leg elephant then turns round and round in arena. CU The little girl with bandage over her eye clapping. LS The elephant girl dancing with elephant around the ring. MS Patients clapping. MS Little midget clown running into arena. MS of clown he puts cap on his head but water pours from it all over him. A clown gives him a bucket which he pours down his trousers. The other clown gives him another bucket but this time he throws it over the clown; in BG can see the kids in beds watching clowns. Close up of Ruth laughing. MS Two men pedaling on tiny bikes. (Clown act features Coco Junior, Sasha & Harty) LS the "Ifni Sahara" Arab acrobatic troupe running into the ring and tumbling. CU Spectators watching. LS Acrobats (standing on one another’s shoulders, and all holding hands to form a display. MS Acrobats jumping down and then forming a different display. CU Child watching. LS Acrobats standing on one another’s shoulders in the display, with some of them now in horizontal position held up by the acrobats in 2nd tier . | |
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