Circus clown of George M. Cohan. He was also one of the main models for "Uncle Sam". With changes in circus and popular culture after the Civil War, his legendary talents under the big top have gradually slipped into almost total historical obscurity; biographer David Carlyon (2001) called him "the most famous man you've never heard of". While Dan Rice's talking and singing clown was taking America by storm, a new type of clown was emerging on the British pantomime stage, one that would have a more lasting influence on contemporary American circus clowning. George Lafayette Fox was America's first great "whiteface"
The Humpty Dumpty Circus Dumpty Circus" produced by Schoenhut Piano Company between 1903 and 1930. The film is lost. Images that have been thought to be stills from the film may be pictures of the popular toy set. Another stop motion film with animated dolls called "The Humpty Dumpty Circus" was released in October 1914. It was made by stop motion pioneer Arthur Melbourne-Cooper. The Humpty Dumpty Circus The Humpty Dumpty Circus was an animated short film made by director and producer J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, the Anglo-American founders of Vitagraph Studios. The short has been thought to have been the