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Monday, September 17, 2012

Cotton Candy and Elephant Stuff
1979
 (opening clip)



Uploaded by jkrawitz1 on Mar 2, 2010
The arduous lifestyle of a traveling circus often contradicts the romantic notion of "running away with a circus." This film documents the daily routines of the small, family-owned Franzen Bros. Circus which performs in a new town each day. While focusing on those aspects of the circus which are not generally accessible to the circus audience, Cotton Candy and Elephant Stuff captures the magic and the banality of circus life.

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