The Last Real Circus
Refined and expanded from its first editionin
the Virginia Festival ofAmerican Film.
Meet the lion and elephant
trainers, the ringmaster,the chief clown, the operations manager,
the owners, the roustabouts.Glimpse the human side of this
traveling community thatblends a wide diversity of personalities and
ethnic origins into a smoothlyrunning, focused group that is able,
every few days, to entirelypack up, move hundreds of miles, and
mount anew, a live entertainmentthat fills a tent the size of a
football field. Yet inthe midst of this seasonal on-the-road life, they
are able to maintain theirfamily ties, and the friendships that bind
them together as performers.That their culture now seems
threatened by the age ofelectronic entertainment casts new
perspective on a way oflife whose survival for the past hundred
years has rested on itsown unique sense of community.
The traveling three-ring circus is a truly
American cultural form that has been
performing around the country under canvas
since the 1880s. Photographed the last year
before the circus began changing its
century-old traditions, this documentary
faithfully captures a day in the life of
a classic American family entertainment.
The Last Real
Circus
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