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 Coming Soon! World Circus Culture, a feature documentary film. See how you can be a part of the film and watch videos at World Circus Culture Documentary. After filming all over Europe, the US, Canada, and Peru, editing has begun on the film. Director/Producer Angela Snow, and Emmy Award winning
editor, Emma Morris, are putting 200 hours of circus footage together to reveal the behind the scenes life, history, and culture of circus on an international scale as never seen before. To see how you can get the DVD, Ringling Bros. Circus tickets, and other circus rewards visit the website above.
 Traveling Showmen, The American Circus Before the Civil War, by Stuart Thayer (paperback, new condition, now out of print). Examines the financing, framing, staging, routing, advertising, and moving of a circus. Covers nearly every aspect of the entertainment from the time J. Purdy Brown set out with the first circus tent in 1825 to Spalding and Rogers' great Floating Palace on the eve of the Civil War. Available from CHS, Just click on Merchandise to order this book. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to support CHS.
Inside the Changing Circus: A Critic's
Guide, this new circus book lands "World Premiere" attention at famed Monte Carlo International Circus Festival. In a center-ring break for author David Lewis Hammarstrom his latest work, Inside the Changing Circus: A Critic's Guide (BearManor Media), will debut at Monaco in January before an international throng of circus luminaries, during the annual Monte Carlo International Circus Festival. The author has researched circuses from the old Soviet Union to the new Shanghai. Inside the Changing Circus explores the ever-evolving face of circus art, and illustrates how today's performances are scouted, produced, directed and ballyhooed. There's even a chapter on how to become a more discriminating circus goer - and practicing critic. "My aim is to broaden the reader's understanding of how and why the performance itself is forever in flux, responding to changes in popular culture and to the innovations that artists and directors bring to the rings." Hammarstrom is also the author of Behind the Big Top and Circus Rings Around Russia.
 Cossacks, Indians and Buffalo Bill, new book by CHS member Richard A. Georgian. Mr. Georgian spent 16 years researching and writing this history of American Wild West shows. The book covers 30 different shows between 1892 and 1917. The history is written from the Georgian "Russian Cossack" trick riders perspective of life on the road. Published by Barringer Publishing, Naples FL, 2011. Visit his website at www.RichardGeorgian.com for more information. Contact Mr. Georgian to receive an autographed copy, at Richard@RichardGeorgian.com.
Website back online!, Ontario Circus & Exhibition Historical Data (Ontario, Canada). Includes Circus Troupes, Exhibitions, Menageries, Sideshows, Novelty Acts, Specialty Shows. Routes, maps, performers. This site attempts to list traveling troupes in Ontario which were variously referred to as a circus, exhibition, menagerie, etc. Click on "Troupe Listings" to view the list of shows. At present the site includes only troupes traveling throughout Ontario prior to World War I, beginning with the 1830's and proceeding forward by decade. If there is enough interest in the site by the time a reasonable amount of pre-WWI is researched, a new range up to 1967 will begin. The site has a discussion forum which is now open to researchers only. The general public will be able to post questions once the site is more complete. As we have already found a number of errors in published material, we are only interested in original source material. All other material will be looked at as unverified and treated as leads only. But, leads are still helpful.
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New! January 2012
Billboard, 1907-1910 - excerpts (added January 21)
Billboard, 1906 - excerpts (added January 09)
Billboard, 1905 - excerpts (added January 06)
Al. G. Barnes Sells-Floto Circus 1938 route (added January 01)
Sparks Circus 1915, 1919-23, 1929, 1931 routes (added January 01)
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Yankee Robinson's 1869 Circus Rebus Puzzle Solved! click here
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