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1948 ca - USA, Oddities: Midget Family has Normal Baby; Circus Family Practicing High Wire

Reel Number: 220656-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1948,1940s,1950s

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 22:21:00

TC Ends: 22:28:08

Duration: 00:07:08

1948 ca - USA, Oddities: Midget Family has Normal Baby; Circus Family Practicing High Wire Busy street scene of a US state capital; pedestrians & diagonally parked cars. Crowd following midget couple pushing baby carriage w/ policeman alongside. 22:21:29 Two midget couples posing outside store, talking w/ businessman gesturing. Father picks up normal size baby girl & shows it to man as crowd watches, then family moves along walking w/ police escort. 22:22:01 Interior, doctor & nurse weigh young baby & hands to mother; picks up baby from midget family & puts on scale. Doctor examines - baby cries as doctor uses stethoscope. Group poses for cameras. 22:23:40 Exterior, very tall policeman holding baby, midgets stand next to him. Kids at outdoor birthday party, baby cries over cake. Good shots babies. Oddities; Stunts; Small People; Dwarfs (?); Children; 22:25:50 Black 22:25:53 Circus family practicing w/ woman walking on tightrope. Parents help children to walk rope - CU bare feet gripping rope. Man riding bicycle on rope w/ child balanced on shoulders. Man climbing to high wire - performing walking w/ pole & does headstand balancing in middle of wire, then continues. Neon sign lights up “Sensational”. Man rides bicycle across high wire using balancing pole w/ farmland behind. Top shot as man slides down rope to ground. Family poses for camera. Stunts; Winter Training; 1940s; 1950s; NOTE: Partial or entire at per reel rate.

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