The Movie Jumbo
Posted By thecircusblog on October 4, 2012
When I look at this photo I am reminded of the enjoyment of working in this great movie but another thing stands out even more. The pain that we all went though trying to do tricks on a single trapeze bar. The trap bar had rapped ropes on each side of us as to look like we were on single bars. After a lot of hard work without success, the six of us talked the director into letting us have are owe trapeze bar, working close side by side that gave each of us the control of our tricks. Within a week we had the timing of the routine down. One would think all would be happy but now they wanted us to sing while performing. The song was “Swing High Swing Low Open The Trapeze” Ok we did sing…… except for our last trick which was a swinging back plange……Later in the circus blog there are more photos on Jumbo.
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