Lights and Shades on the Bostock Circus Farm

Lights and Shades on the Bostock Circus Farm (1911)

January 1st, 19110h 4min

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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)


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