The Circus : Part 1 / PBS.

[Place of publication not identified] : PBS, [2018]

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2019.

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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 51 min., 45 sec)) : sound, color.

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The Circus brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town; its stars were among the most famous people in the country and multitudes gathered to see the improbable and the impossible, the exotic, and the spectacular.

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English

August 02, 2019

9 - 12, Academic/AP

Introduction: The Circus: Part 1 (4:40); Phineas Taylor Barnum (4:33); Barnum's American Museum (3:14); Traveling Circus (4:21); Early American Circuses (5:06); Morality and Menageries (2:27); Evolution of Circus Staples (5:09); Rail Travel Transforms Circus (6:13); How Circus Animals Were Obtained (4:13); Greatest Show on Earth (7:50); Running Away with the Circus (3:09); News Rival for Barnum (3:23); Bailey Travels the Globe (6:47); Circus with Lights (3:00); Barnum and Bailey Join Forces (4:11); Circus Comes to Town (6:17); Combined Circus and Work Conditions (2:53); Circus Titans Do Battle (3:32); Popular Pachyderms (8:57); Ethnological Congress of Heathen Races (3:22); Barnum-Forepaugh Truce (6:06); Rise of Ringling Brothers (7:25); Circus Moguls Die (3:19); Credits: The Circus: Part 1 (1:17);

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