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Electrocuting an Elephant - the film in full. The 74-second film opens with Topsy being led past a crowd of people through an unfinished Luna Park to the execution spot, an island in the middle of a "lagoon" used for boat-rides, by elephant handler Carl Goliath. The film cuts and an intervening hour and forty-five minutes are not recorded.
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.
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Recently, a baby elephant's journey on a plane got somewhat easier thanks to some unlikely companions. On October 13th, staffers from the David Rescued baby elephant 'comforted' by two ostriches ...
See below. --SigPig 06:17, 28 September 2006 (UTC) Concur with Recury: Move this article to Topsy (elephant), create a movie stub for Electrocuting an Elephant. OR, leave movie where it is until you have enough to actually make an article. --SigPig 06:20, 28 September 2006 (UTC) Oppose per Recury. I would also support a move to Topsy (elephant).
The official San Diego Zoo YouTube account left a now-pinned comment on the video in 2020, stating that they felt honored being featured in the first-ever YouTube video. [23] As of October 22, 2024, it is the most-liked comment on the platform, with 3.9 million likes.