Circus, Sideshow & Oddities

Johnny Eck’s 16mm Print of “Freaks.” Two vintage reels of 16mm film, being the 1932 horror cult classic Freaks, each metal reel with the affixed label of Johnny Eck, the “half man” who starred in the film along with a cavalcade of sideshow attractions. With one metal canister bearing Eck’s return address label, and matching labels on both reels. Old masking tape labels bearing handwriting, likely Eck’s, identifying the contents of the canister and reels. Eck regularly screened Freaks in his home using this print. His address on the attached address labels is for the home he lived in at the time of his death: 622 N. Milton Ave., Baltimore.