# Titans of the Big Top - Titanen de la Carpa Grande

National Archives and Records Administration Titans of the Big Top - Titanen de la Carpa Grande International Communications Agency. (03/27/1978 - 1982) ARC Identifier 55221 / Local Identifier 306-AH-53. TRACES THE HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY THROUGH GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE FOR WHOM THE CIRCUS WAS THE BIG EVENT ANNUALLY. THE CIRCUS IS SHOWN AS FAR BACK AS GEORGE WASHINGTON'S TIMES WHEN HE DONATED A HORSE TO THE FIRST CIRCUS. THROUGH THE YEARS, THE CIRCUS HAS ENDURED BOTH ECONOMIC AND NATURAL PERILS, BUT HAS SURVIVED AND IS EVEN MORE POPULAR TODAY. FEATURES THE FLYING GAONAS, WORLD FAMOUS AERIALISTS FROM MEXICO. THEY RELATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY IN CIRCUS HISTORY AND TRADITION. OTHER INTERVIEWS WITH CLOWNS AND OTHER CIRCUS PERSONNEL PROVIDE A PERSONAL VIEW. Made possible by a donation from Public.Resource.Org.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1978
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.55221)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.