01 January 1911 Factual 4 mins
Short dramatised documentary showing the ups and downs of daily life on a circus farm. “The only light comes from the flames of the funeral pyre that consumes a dead circus elephant shortly after its corpse has been unceremoniously dragged across a field by 50 carthorses.” (BFI)
Watch the official Lights and Shades on the Bostock Circus Farm 1911 trailer in HD below.
Plackerei Freude-Leid oder Licht und Schatten auf der Farm des Zirkus Bostock. Trailer
United States 01 January 1911
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