Clown car
Appearance
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Aclown caris a prop in a commoncircus clownroutine, which involves a large number ofclownsemerging from a small car. The first performance of this routine was in theCole Bros. Circusduring the 1950s.[1]The effect is usually produced by removing all of a car's internal components like door panels,headliners,engines, seats, and any interior barrier to the trunk, and then filling the enlarged space with as many clowns as possible.[2]Greg DeSantoof theInternational Clown Hall of Fameestimates that somewhere between 14 and 21 clowns and their props could fit into a car prepared in this manner.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Feiler, Bruce(2003).Under the Big Top.HarperCollins. p. 71.ISBN978-0-06-052702-0.
- ^abHuffman, John Pearley (March 28, 2011)."The Physics Of: Clown Cars".Car and Driver.RetrievedNovember 10,2018.