Circus People

★★★★ · Not directed by Fellini · Spuzz · 2014-02-19

Circus People is an enjoyable romp from the bygone era of when the Circus was a big thing. This film certainly brought memories back when the Shrine Circus would hit town, I would always get a free ticket at elementary school, and I would never get to go. (I think I just got to go once). Anyways, not much about the actual acts themselves, but more about how the circus is set up, poles go up! Tent is covered! etc. Very interesting actually. Reccomended!

★★ · The Circus is Here · Dodsworth the Cat · 2022-12-26

Are there circus trains any more? I imagine this film looks at an era pretty much gone. We see tents being put up, mountains of food gobbled down by circus employees and clowns fooling around. The start of the film is missing and the end title card seems to have been spliced on. I don't know why narrators yell at people on the screen, as if they can hear him. It's pretty hokey. "Hey, look out! There may be a lion in there," he shouts at children looking into a cage car. The way the narrator is oozing with delight, I imagine this film was directed at kids. He's buoyant even as workers poke…