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) elephant, circus, docudrama, animals, silent film, cremation, circus animal