Behind The Big Top

Made by Phillip J Phillips - c 1948. NFSA Title No: 474
The arrival of the Wirth's Circus at Geelong and their preparations for a performance. Shows transport of the circus on train carriages and then being hauled by elephants aong the main street (past the office of shipping company Huddart Parker), the erection of the big top, performing elephants and horses, clowns, a woman lion tamer (Madame Kovar) and trapeze artists.

[@blakesullivan1341]

My great great grandfather was Phillip Wirth

[@stleonm]

Magnificent spectacle of Wirth's Circus, and captured on colour film too. Wirth's was Australia's largest, most famous circus until it folded its tents for the last time in 1963.

[@jorgecanales798]

Wish I could travel back in time so I could attend to old fashioned circus shows

[@FTY13]

I travelled with silvers when I was 8 years old and became a performer I just got the bug

[@manuelosorioo6993]

Fantastic, wonderful Circus world 😸👌💯 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@apd8339]

good show.

[@fenderfetish]

Correction; they're arriving in Ballarat, not Geelong. The station at the beginning is Navigators, and 2:02 onwards is Lydiard Street.(Huddart Parker had an office on the corner of Lydiard and Mair Sts.)

[@NFSAFilms]

Great, thanks for the information.

[@holertogni]

the circus guest have to see how was the circus way of life at this time

[@douglasnakamura6753]

Beats the crap out of circus shows these days. They're dull now.

[@FTY13]

These cirque oley French circuses really pissed me off. The parents leave the kids with a babysitter while they pay $100 to see some gay guy with feathers and sequence who doesn't even address the audience

[@aradunn1134]

I thought the elephants trunk sticking out of the train (idk) was a dinosaur with a long neck :p I’m so dump

[@aradunn1134]

This video was in my circus school video :P
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