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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This silent, 1938 black and white and color mixed home movie footage depicts operations of the Robbins Brothers Circus including a promotional parade, livestock unloading, and raising a big top tent (TRT 17:22). Around the time the film was shot, the Robbins Brothers Circus merged with Cole Brothers and both eventually became part of the Ringling Brothers Circus. A poster advertises Robbins Bros. Circus (0:08). A circus wagon is wheeled along the bed of a railroad train car labeled “Robbins Bros. 3 Ring Circus” (0:13). Two horses pull another wagon and unload it from the train (0:28). Horses trot past onlookers (1:00). A wagon hauling tentpoles is unloaded (1:20). Workmen ridge a group of ponies from right to left. Children follow (1:33). Full view panning across painted circus train cars: “World’s Premiere Amusement” with “Hoot Gibson, The Screen’s Most Popular
