American Sideshow

“I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.” – L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz, as quoted in Freaks: We Who are Not as Others (1990) by Daniel P. Mannix

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Films About Sideshow Performers

Fred G. Johnson: “The Picasso of Circus Art”

Gibtown: The Strangest Town in America

Johnny Eck: King of the Freaks