1942 Circus Acts: "Here Comes the Circus" - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage

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[@lottie_star]

I’ve been obsessed with circus stuff lately

[@jak6744]

Same they look so professional back in the day

[@seronymus]

I believe I'm gaining a hyperobsession for circus out of nowhere. Most of my life, I was offput by it or bored. Yet now I admire the whole culture and traditions of that lower layer of society. Did you know many troupes had their own priests? These weren't just random degenerate grifters. These men and women worked their butts off to entertain and show people wonder.

[@oneunicorn904]

The Greatest Showman doesn’t help 😂

[@James-kv6kb]

​@@seronymusoh my god this word grifter, people are using it like oxygen lol but anyway travelled with a circus when I was 8-years-old absolutely amazing experience so many amazing traditions that no one knows about and so many stereotypes that aren't true concerning the animals. The performers don't eat until after the evening show because if they have to go to hospital they may need anaesthetic which you can't have ,with food in your stomach. Marrying a non-circus person is usually forbidden because everybody has to have a skill . Most families have a speciality that they passed down through the family . Also the circus people are extremely protective of all the kids from other performers they all act like one big family especially when the show's on to make sure everyone safe I absolutely loved the whole

[@roberttemple2521]

@@seronymus Grifters?! HA! You must remember that circus is performing artists. Carnival is con artists [grifters]. I am a former circus performer. Circus is an honorable profession, hardly "lower layer of society". Granted, you are not part of the business, so you have only your view of circus. Circus isn't a job so much as it is a way of life. Those looking from the outside have no idea what it is really like to work circus, to live it, to have been brought up in it. I will say that animals on any circus suffer terribly, it is outright animal cruelty to enslave, cage and tether animals, wild and otherwise, for profit. I don't buy the "tradition" of having animals in circus any more that I support zoos, aquariums, bullfights, rodeo, etc.

[@cm975]

People who worked in this era easily could have been competing gymnasts today.

[@NicoliRavioli117]

I was thinking the same thing while watching this.

[@James-kv6kb]

Circus people and professional athletes were always of the same fitness level

[@kaileybryant0544]

This is so so so cool. I wish I paid more attention to history in high school cause now I’m 30 and obsessed lol

[@BenAzelart13]

Post more carnival and circus videos please and keep up the great work!!!

[@James-kv6kb]

I find it funny that people get it all confused the circus is the big show the freak shows are what they had outside and the carnival was all the merry-go-rounds which sometimes at the circus and other times wasn't my family were the carnival people

[@Jo-razz]

My grandfather Michael Ragone was a acrobatics in Baraum Bailey circus in the 1920s. We have original pictures & journals. He first went into it with his 2 step brothers & they called them selves the "Ferraro brothers" & later years my grandfather Separate from his brothers & became a clown & had a woman partner, that do not know her name. A little while doing that, my grandmother did not like the fact he was traveling with a young pretty woman, So it became my grandfather Michael Ragone & my grandmother Jenne (Joann) Ragone. I think when they where the Ferraro brothers, then had like a 30 sec. Part in the silence movie called Sally the sea saw 1925( I don't think I got the movie name right? Sorry. This part of family history amazes me!!. Lol, I had to edit because of so many mistakes I had! Whomever did read it & understood, now that was amazing 👏 😃

[@aspergerart4635]

That's so cool and interesting!!

[@Jo-razz]

@@aspergerart4635 thanks , lol ya it is cool. He & his 2 brothers had a small part in a silent film, for the life of me I can not remember. Something like "Sally & the sawdust" at least to that. ✌

[@cbmrprince]

That’s wild

[@siimplyymirockelle2958]

I am not gonna try reading all of this but I read the first part and that’s pretty cool

[@siimplyymirockelle2958]

I ended reading it all😭

[@Jamie-my6xx]

Remember that when this was filmed there was a war going on but the circus kept going

[@hewystudio7832]

Come see our show to hear the worlds longest drum rolls

[@Happy26136]

never thought id see crowns having a face off

[@tamiaryland3549]

It's so sad on how animals were abused and people used to laugh at this💔

[@gader2023]

It's funny for today😂

[@mohamadtheclown]

They are not abused

[@MrUranium238]

@@mohamadtheclown keep wishing

[@James-kv6kb]

Every single time there has to be some ignorant young female who thinks she knows everything about circus life because she's stereotypes because that's easier than thinking. You try and make an elephant do anything that it doesn't want to do and you will have serious issues . I was at a circus, saw the elephant in the very large enclosure called out its name it came over to the fence and started dancing for me so don't tell me that this is done by torture that is a load of crap . Also the story books stereotype of the little circus cage they're travelling in they don't live in those cages there simply to take them from one place to another much like a dog in a car you don't say oh my god that dog lives in the car do you

[@julianhermanubis6800]

I hate that a bunch of animal rights wackos have largely ended the use of big cats and elephants in the circus. And fear of liability has cut back the more daring acrobatic acts. So, what do you have left? A bunch of clowns. No one wants to pay to see that, so circuses are dying.

[@bradyfry8031]

The gentleman in the crowd bears a resemblance to Warren Harding in my opinion. Despite that this was made in 1942 and he died in 1923.

[@Digibeatle09]

“[A] herd of ponderous pachyderms” - love that piece of commentary about the elephants. Live animal acts (other than domestic animal ones) are prohibited in most countries now - I suppose there are aspects about how such animals are housed/transported that mean the bans make sense but no one is going to tell me the lives of such circus animals were just plain miserable - some circus “historians” say you couldn’t get a good performance from animals - such as the elephants in this video - unless they were happy and well looked after.

[@shyannevance]

I love historical things I could watch this all day

[@elainemiller1417]

POOR LIONS, POOR TIGERS....What an awful life

[@James-kv6kb]

I feel sorry for you that you're not intelligent enough to know that they are stereotypes so that you will give money to animal rights groups which usually gets sued and have to pay back the circus lots of money. The story book thing of the cage on wheels that is only to transport the animals that is not the main cage that they have but that's too hard isn't it that's getting too deep into it oh no you don't want to actually hear the truth

[@michaelcascio8587]

I am 58 years old, and I miss the circus and midway sideshows. A few midway side shows still existed in the late 1970s when I was young, most at State fairs, and I miss them. That great sideshow banner art. The clowns, working acts, (for example tattooed marvels, etc.) and "freaks" were smarter than people today; they became rich, supported themselves, and created a form of "family" being around similar people. Now it is seen for free in your local Wal-Mart. Lol.🤣

[@nocturnalwolf7559]

yo that woman climbing without her legs strong asf

[@ZachLBlosser]

MST3K brought me here. 1:36 "It's Liza!" 4:35 "Oh no, they're doing it clown style!" "More! More! I'm a bad clown!" 7:00 "Stella!"

[@snufkingstan]

I LOVE CLOWNS

[@snufkingstan]

@Gary peters lol ok ???

[@snufkingstan]

@Gary peters OH lol

[@benphillips6662]

Do you mind if I use some if this footage for a music video I am working on?

[@ahmadirfanamizanmohdnoor3946]

🙏this is great content.🙏

[@rosagarciagutierrez4611]

I love this vídeo!! Do you have more like it??

[@Crispyprism]

3:09 Holy sh*

[@Dillweed9001]

A woman who likes a snake? Inconceivable! Bully show! Bully show, I say!

[@cm975]

I can’t think of the name for the type of snake right now, but I did have an ex who had a snake like that and I’m sure that they are now common household pets. At least for reptile lovers! So funny how times change.

[@gachatana9656]

​@@cm975Snakes are seen as exotic pets in some places but they are truly such a cool pet to have ❤

[@James-kv6kb]

Yes well they didn't have the internet back then so these sort of things were interesting even though that wasn't actually the circus part

[@siimplyymirockelle2958]

Wow history am I right

[@Jjangbunbun]

2:42 looks fun lol

[@sandman5522]

And you know most of, if not all, of the animals here were beaten and abused

[@FaucisTopGuy]

um you teach a horse to tap dance without beating it idiot

[@nsw1992]

Oh cry a river. Those where other times…

[@gader2023]

And now what do you want

[@MrUranium238]

@@gader2023 close all zoos

[@James-kv6kb]

No that's all lies all stereotypes that stupid people use because they don't want to think for themselves and probably have not been able to train their own animal so they say well obviously professional animal trainers must be doing something horrible it is a load of bulshit it's simply doesn't happen the way you say it does. The people that tried to close down this show were busted in court for bribing politicians filming animals being hurt using their own people and had to pay back millions of dollars because they're little scam was unravelled

[@manuelosorioo6993]

! ! Great ! ! Fantastic, wonderful Circus world 😸😸👌👌👍👍😍😍

[@francesbernard2445]

Those circus performers do look more well fed than some I have seen these days who have found an alternative way out of Pootlers latest employment program for them.

[@joeguzman3558]

I'm going to ask my mom to take me to the circus

[@James-kv6kb]

Unfortunately a lot of silly people believed in stereotypes about the animals that weren't true so finding a animal circus is rare these days. But its the coolest way to spend the evening trust me

[@mohamadrifqi7046]

That deep throat trick

[@OiMItzCait]

mohamad rifqi Hahaha

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Clyde Beatty was the GOAT. I love seeing him in that cage with a dozen big cats and just dominating those dangerous predators.

[@bassamahmed7862]

الله يرحمهم كانت لياقتهم عالية ما شاء الله وعرض جميل

[@riskigayo2600]

where is this?

[@theotherguy9397]

I always wonder how the animals know what to do

[@pedronathan6025]

by fear and pain

[@gader2023]

​@@pedronathan6025 By training

[@gader2023]

​​@@pedronathan6025 Go to the salon, you prying

[@MrUranium238]

@@gader2023 I agree, training by fear and pain

[@James-kv6kb]

Don't listen to all the people that tell lies I've travelled with a circus and see how they train the animals and they do it bit by bit they pick up on skills the animals already have and try to get them to do do them as a routine after a short time they know exactly what to do . And with animals they prefer to know what they're doing if they're going round in a circle they're happy it's only when something different happens that they get upset. Unfortunately the animal rights groups will tell you that they are tortured and all this sort of thing so that they can raise money which is extremely rare. The circus I travelled with was so protective of the animals if anybody had hurt them in any way they wouldn't have pulled out a gun they love the animals so much just loving your cat or dog

[@EngPheniks]

I have this strange feeling that once circuses stopped employing animals, it loses its value 🤔

[@julianhermanubis6800]

You'd be right.

[@thesweetdreamscircus3041]

"Join the circus today"

[@James-kv6kb]

They're doing everything possible to stop circuses because they are such a threat to television and the internet

[@gnomewarlord7128]

2:16 i would go into cardiac arrest immediately

[@caztoledo]

To think all those people are already dead

[@raffaeleviggiano4901]

Wonderfol❤

[@marcovenegas7396]

que gran registro del Circo de antaño, años 40,s, que nostalgia de aquel Circo, payasos, acróbatas, domador de león 🦁 de gran valentía para poder estar frente a esas bestias peligrosas, el acto de los elefantes, formidable aquel Circo que tiempo mas hermoso aquel de este Circo, Viva el Circo,y todos sus artistas de antaño, saludos desde Santiago de Chile,

[@melloangelwolf8611]

This was before Emit was traumatized by the fire of 44

[@skater433300]

👍

[@corazondonquixote]

2:42

[@claytonsharpe2794]

Imagine the vegan teacher review this and said look at what you’re doing all these poor animals

[@James-kv6kb]

Unfortunately this show was closed down by vegans who lied to the court bribed public officials even sending their own people in dressed in circus costumes to hurt the animals backstage while they were filming. The show was closed down the animals all taken to sanctuaries all the equipment sold off only for the courts to later find that it was all lies and done by the animal rights groups due to them not having the right costumes which gave them away. they had to pay million of dollars back to the circus but it was gone forever

[@julianhermanubis6800]

I'd love to show this unannounced at a national PETA meeting where they couldn't cut the feed. 🤣

[@James-kv6kb]

@@julianhermanubis6800 the people who have the proud title of killing 95% of the animals they rescue . They are just in it to make money

[@jonflowers8823]

Back when clowns were creepy.

[@MrUranium238]

@1:09 Michael Myers

[@SnuzzyLuvvs]

RAHHHHHH🦅

[@paulietteburnett7270]

Princess katerra

[@applemask]

And Madonna thinks she's innovative

[@T2G-DJT]

She is

[@gader2023]

😂😂😂😂🙏

[@OlavoPch]

PAO

[@santinabellydance]

Does anyone notice that no one is fat in this video not even the audience!

[@deadchannel9105]

Santina Belly Dance wasn't there a war or something going on ? That could have limited people's food supply

[@roastchicken401]

@@Gevixel Sad, but true

[@jus2cute09]

Less processed food and easy access to an abundance of food too.

[@ga1actic_muffin]

Yea this was before the food corperations resorted to adding poisons, processing, and cheap ingredients to their food

[@James-kv6kb]

People did this thing back then where they actually cooked for themselves and worked really hard all day it's unheard of it's so old fashioned 😂

[@TitanAttack-jy7kq]

3:29