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Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little is integrated into the circus...
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Description
From displays of the human form--both beautiful and grotesque--to tricks of illusion, and wonders from the far-off world, the sideshow has captivated audiences since its popularity arose in the Victorian Era, as a side attraction to circuses, fairgrounds, and exhibition halls. Learn true stories behind some of the most fascinating acts in both sideshow history and modern times, from the Fiji mermaid to Short E. Dangerously.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010], ©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (NTSC, 84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The tents are leaky. The troupers are weary. The carnival limps into town and sets up for another show. To the public, the carnival means exciting performers. To Nick Coster, those performers are 'mugs and grifters and riffraff - all under one tent.' Nick should know. He puts the show together"--Container.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
8) Pru's diary
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Lucky, Abigail, and Pru are traveling to a circus exhibition with El Circo dos Grillos where Pru gets to perform a clown act, but Catalina keeps acting like her performance is going to be better than Pru's.
Author
Publisher
Siafu Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
343 pages
Description
It’s 1980, and Gail has decided to blow off her full college ride and become a trapeze artist. As she finds herself wandering the dysfunctional circus life, she realizes the safety net of the existence she once knew is unraveling, but the show must go on no matter what.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 216 pages : illustrations 25 cm
Description
The author of We've Got a Job explores the world of social circus-a movement that brings kids from different worlds together to perform remarkable acts on a professional level. Levinson follows the participants of two specific circuses that also work together periodically: Circus Harmony, in St. Louis, whose participants are inner-city and suburban kids, and Circus Galilee in Israel, whose participants and Jews and Arabs. As the kids' relationships...
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
368 pages
Description
Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion-tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists and, most thrilling of all, the so-called "human wonders." When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a "leopard girl" because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated....
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A captivating tale of people at the margins of society who open their hearts to a stranger. In a run-down park on the outskirts of Rome, a two-year-old girl is discovered and taken in by a family of hard-luck circus performers. A note from a desperate mother reveals little about who she is or why she was left. As the bond grows between the girl and her surrogate family, this naturalistic drama becomes a revealing and soulful portrait of courage and...
17) Shadows and fog
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kleinman, a cowardly clerk recruited to help find a murderer, meets a woman and her boyfriend, a clown, running away from the circus. Kleinman decides to help them escape, abandoning the search for the murderer, but his choice only gets them all involved.
19) Freeks
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Welcome to Gideon Davorin's Traveling Sideshow, where necromancy, magical visions, and pyrokinesis are more than just part of the act...
Mara has always longed for a normal life in a normal town where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. Instead, she roams from place to place, cleaning the tiger cage while her friends perform supernatural feats every night.
When the struggling sideshow is miraculously offered the money they...
20) Circus
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Some are born to it. Some run to it. Come run away to the circus, and experience the fascinating reality of one our most potent collective fantasies. Join the company and crew of the legendary Big Apple Circus for their annual 350-show tour, an epic, unforgettable journey from town to town and stand to stand, from the big top to 'backyard,' where the trailers are parked and the heart of the circus beats.
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