Circus In Training (1955)

Ascot. Bertram Mills circus in training. SV. Elephants trotting around the ring in training. CU. Head of an elephant. SV. Girl manicuring elephant’s toe nails. CU. Filling toe nails with large rasp. SV. Hemiz Levendowski being pulled up on his high stilts. SV. Circus midget helping to raise the stilts. Pan up to Levendowski perched above the ground. CU. Midget holding one of the stilt legs. He leaves go and looks up. Angle shot Levendowski standing on his stilts: clutching hold of wires. LV. Bertram mills coach driving in between his legs. & SV. Pan up to Levendowski on his stilts. SV. Chimps going through their boxing routine in the ring. CU. Two chimps boxing. The bell goes and they go back to their corners. SV. A chimp boxer’s second putting bucket completely over head of chimp boxer. CU. Other chimp boxer in corner with chimp second hitting the turn up bucket on the chimp’s head. The chimp’s second climbs out of the ropes with the bucket. SV. Baby chimp standing on table jumping up and down getting exc