The Pride of the Circus
About The Pride of the Circus
A tightrope walker with a traveling circus falls in love with the mayor's daughter in a seaside town. He pulls her out of a fire. She accepts him. The mayor will not. To answer that refusal, the walker builds a new act dangerous enough, he thinks, to make him worth marrying.
Cast & crew
More about The Pride of the Circus
Alfred Lind directed, co-wrote the script with Carl Dumreicher, and photographed the film. It opened on 20 March 1912 and runs 46 minutes. The Danish title on the surviving copy is Den flyvende cirkus.
Themes
Making
Lind shot his own picture. The last beat the synopsis records is the walker preparing the dangerous act, not the wedding.
Look
Alfred Lind photographed the circus acts and the fire rescue himself.
Preservation
A print survives under the Danish title Den flyvende cirkus.
Notes
- Lili Bech plays in the company. Rasmus Ottesen, Emilie Otterdahl, Richard Jensen, Kirstine Friis-Hjorth, Stella Lind, and Charles Løwaas are also billed.
- Lind is credited as both director and cinematographer.
- The English title on some copies is The Flying Circus as well as The Pride of the Circus.
Scenes
- The walker carries the mayor's daughter out of the fire.
- He starts building a more dangerous act after the mayor refuses the match.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-den-flyvende-cirkus-aka-the-flying-circus)
