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The film fell into relative obscurity in the years after 1903, showing up as an out-of-context clip in the 1979 film Mr. Mike's Mondo Video. [5] In 1991, documentary maker Ric Burns made the film Coney Island which included a segment recounting the death of Topsy, including clips from the film Electrocuting an Elephant.
Topsy (c. 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903.Born in Southeast Asia around 1875, Topsy was secretly brought into the United States soon thereafter and added to the herd of performing elephants at the Forepaugh Circus, who fraudulently advertised her as the first elephant born in the United States.
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Topsy the circus pachyderm broke loose twice in 1922, making nationwide news. An NC restaurant wants to commemorate this weird occasion. An escaped elephant rampaged through Wilmington 100 years ago.
Cute Video of Rescued Elephant ‘Playing’ Like a Kid Is Making Everybody Smile. Natalie Hoage. July 22, 2024 at 11:00 AM. Shutterstock/Colin Dewar. Just like kids, animals love to play. Dok ...
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An elephant execution, sometimes called elephant lynching, is a pseudo-legal or performative public spectacle where a captive elephant is killed in order to punish it for being a "bad elephant" (behaviors that had, threatened, injured, or killed humans). Documenting the execution or the body with film or still photos was not uncommon.