Soon after The Gold Rushs release he was at work on a new film: The Circus.

Filming on The Circus was continuing steadily when a fire broke out on 28 September, destroying the set.

Production on The Circus resumed, and the film was completed in October 1927.

At the 1st Academy Awards, Chaplin was given a special award " For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus.

" The Lita Grey affair was soon forgotten, but Chaplin was deeply affected by it: the stress of the ordeal turned his hair white, and both his second wife and The Circus received only a passing mention in his autobiography.

By the time The Circus was released, Hollywood had witnessed the introduction of sound films.

A new section of the Circus was designated for seating the senators, who previously had sat among the general public.

The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.

Déjà Vu was the third episode of the second season of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British comedy program.

To make Robert Paul's On a Runaway Motor Car through Piccadilly Circus ( 1899 ), the camera was turned very slowly, so that when the film was projected at the usual 16 frames per second, the scenery appeared to be passing at great speed.

Yoakum left home when he was 9 years old, to join the Great Wallace Circus.

The first successful blend of a social message and entertainment was Aleksandrov ’ s Circus ( 1936 ).

According to the sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, it was rendered by a number of Australian university lecturers.

) Although the fictitious faculty first appeared in the Bruces sketch in the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, the song itself was not included, making its debut on the album Matching Tie and Handkerchief as a coda for the sketch.

It was set in a ' virtual ' computer-generated world created by young computer game designers, and starred Jack Ryder ( from EastEnders ) as Titus, with Terry Jones ( Monty Python's Flying Circus ) narrating.

Circus Girl was released independently on 15 November 2011.

* Peckinpah's use of violence was parodied by Monty Python in Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days ", one of the more controversial episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a lovely day out for an upper-class English family turns into a blood-soaked orgy of severed limbs and gushing wounds.

Later that year, he was commissioned by the BBC to write and star in Q5, the first in the innovative " Q " TV series, acknowledged as an important precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus, which premiered several months later.

* 2000: The song was covered by the Tiger Lillies on their album Circus Songs.

In Detroit, the Edison Memorial Fountain in Grand Circus Park was created to honor his achievements.

Gilliam was a part of Monty Python's Flying Circus from its outset, at first credited as an animator ( his name was listed separately after the other five in the closing credits ), later as a full member.

* Gilliam was also given a BAFTA Special Award in 1969 for the graphics and animations in Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Over the several centuries of its development, the Circus Maximus became Rome's paramount specialist venue for chariot races.

Augustus intended the area near the Circus to be part of Rome's monumental center, with buildings devoted to dramatic performances ( such as the theaters of Marcellus and Balbus ) and temples.

* Circus ( genus ), the largest genus of harriers, a type of bird of prey

The largest element of the plan is the reconstruction of the Quadrant at the southern end of the street close to Piccadilly Circus.

Baraboo is home to the Circus World Museum, the former headquarters and winter home of the Ringling Brothers circus and now the largest library of circus information in the United States.

The Mabie Brothers U. S. Olympic Circus, then the largest in America, arrived in 1847, to become the first circus to quarter in the territory of Wisconsin.

* London – This Ripley's museum is the world's largest and it opened on August 20, 2008 at the London Pavilion, 1 Piccadilly Circus.

In 1882, the combined " Barnum & Bailey Circus " was successful with acts such as Jumbo, advertised as the world's largest elephant.

In October of 1896 the Coliseum hosted the Barnum and Bailey Circus, the largest three-ring circus in the country.

Coe was not bashful about announcing that his tent was the largest in the world --- bigger, he claimed, than the one Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus used.

The combined entity, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was very successful, and is the largest surviving circus company in the United States.

Circus World Museum holds one of the largest collections of circus materials in the world, including circus wagons, posters, photography, and artifacts used by shows from all over the United States.

The Irvin Feld Exhibit Hall is the museum's largest building, and houses exhibits on the history of the Ringling Brothers Circus, as well as other exhibits relating to general aspects of circuses and circus history.

The Circus Maximus ( Latin for great or large circus, in Italian Circo Massimo ) is an ancient Roman chariot racing stadium and mass entertainment venue located in Rome, Italy.

Even at the height of its development as a chariot-racing circuit, the circus remained the most suitable space in Rome for religious processions on a grand scale, and was the most popular venue for large-scale venationes ; in the late 3rd century, the emperor Probus laid on a spectacular Circus show in which beasts were hunted through a veritable forest of trees, on a specially built stage.

* Circus ( building ), an open-air venue used for public events in the Roman Empire

The Common is a popular recreation ground, and also serves as the venue for a number of annual events, including the Southsea Show, Para Spectacular, Military Vehicle Show, Kite Festival and a variety of circuses including the Moscow State Circus and Chinese State Circus.

The Moving Sidewalks opened for the 13th Floor Elevators at the Houston, psychedelic venue, Love Street Light Circus, located on Commerce Street.

While booking many of the same bands that had played the Electric Circus, Graham particularly used the venue — and its West Coast counterpart — to establish in the US British bands such as The Who, Pink Floyd, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and Led Zeppelin.

Additionally, the arena was a prime Houston venue for popular music concerts and special events such as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Harlem Globetrotters, Sesame Street Live and Disney on Ice.

The Store moved to a specifically designed stand up comedy venue in 1993 at 1a Oxendon Street, between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.

Powell composed several electronic music pieces in the 1960s, some of which were performed at the Electric Circus in New York's Greenwich Village, a venue that also saw performances by groundbreaking rock music acts like The Velvet Underground, The Grateful Dead, and Blue Oyster Cult.

Having served the greater Nashville area with many diverse events for 50 years, today the Auditorium is a popular venue in Nashville for major touring family shows, such as Sesame Street Live, The Wiggles, The Doodlebops, Barney, Bob the Builder, Disney Live, Harlem Globetrotters, and the annual Al Menah Temple Shrine Circus.

Constructed during the 2003 redevelopment on the site of the Ghost Train, the Big Top ( originally to be named the Luna Circus ) is a fully licensed, multipurpose venue capable of seating 2, 000 people ( this capacity can increase to 3, 000 for standing-only concerts ).

A brand new show from Geneva Foster-Gluck ’ s Sugar Beast Circus features at Jacksons Lane, recognized as a power-house for innovative, contemporary circus and a new venue for LIMF in 2012.

The venue gave its first Circus show on 15 January 1900.

Held at the Circus Tavern, Purfleet between 1994 and 2007, the championship moved to a bigger venue at Alexandra Palace from 2008.

The Circus Flaminius was never meant to rival the much larger Circus Maximus, and, unlike the Circus Maximus, it was not just an entertainment venue.

Due to its large seating capacity, the center is also the city's premier entertainment venue and has hosted big name acts such as pop star Britney Spears during her Circus Tour, comedian George Lopez and rock band KISS.

The first act to come to the Arena was the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, opening at the venue on October 24, 2001 and the 1, 000th event held at the Arena was a Fairfield Stags men's basketball game on January 30, 2010.

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice and Champions on Ice have been annual visitors to this venue.

In 2010, Nitro Circus performed three Motorbike Stunt Shows at the venue.

For a brief period in the mid-1970s, The Electric Circus, a run-down venue on Collyhurst Street ( formerly the Palladium variety club ), found itself at the centre of Manchester's punk rock scene.