Circus Today

Circus Today (1940)

A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas, literally fly; the lion puts his head in the tamer's mouth; and the human cannonball flies around the world.

Date of release
1940-06-21
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (5)
Runtime
9m
Genres
Animation
Director
Tex Avery

Casting

  • Tex Avery — Circus Bandmaster (voice) (uncredited)
  • Mel Blanc — Balloon Vendor / Firewalker / Monkey / Stork / Gorilla / Elephant / Conductor (voice) (uncredited)
  • Eddie Marr — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Interesting facts

Circus Today is a 1940 American animated comedy short film directed by Fred Avery. It was released on June 22, 1940. It is part of the Merrie Melodies series. It was re-released as a "Blue Ribbon" reissue in 1948, rendering the original film lost; Avery kept a nitrate fragment of the original titles, which was sold by his family in 2004 to a private collector, but still available publicly at extremely low definition.

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