

Lights and Shades on the Bostock Circus Farm (1911)
Overview : 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)
Release Date : January 1, 1911
Runtime : 4m
Genre : Documentary
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Keywords : elephant, circus, docudrama, animals, silent film, cremation, circus animal