Lights and Shades on the Bostock Circus Farm (1911)

Short dramatised documentary showing the ups and downs of daily life on a circus farm. “The only light comes from the flames of the funeral pyre that consumes a dead circus elephant shortly after its corpse has been unceremoniously dragged across a field by 50 carthorses.” (BFI)

Released Jan. 1, 1911 4 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: tmdb.circus, tmdb.elephant, tmdb.docudrama, tmdb.silent-film, tmdb.cremation, tmdb.circus-animal, mdblist.imdb-short + 5 more, imdb.year-1911, imdb.1910s, imdb.20th-century, tmdb.animals, aspectratio.1-33-1