I started collecting books & vids in the 1980s, as a new juggler - mostly to find out what was going on in the rest of the world.
Taught at youth circuses for about 15 years, so the vids became a teaching resource, which was a good excuse to collect more (like I needed an excuse!) 90% of them come from other people - very little circus shown on TV in Australia, especially back then.
I pretty much stopped collecting around 2000 (year, not vid#), when I moved away from circus to work in theatre.
Pre-YouTube it was a pretty valuable resource, but I assumed it had been more-or-less superseded by now. Interesting to find that a lot of the old stuff hasn't found its way online yet.
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