Watch CARNIVALS with filmmaker introduction

Meet Obie, the strip show drummer, as he is now and find out how his life turned out. This version of CARNIVALS, includes introduction by the filmmaker, Martyn Burke, and visit with Obie in the present day.
Filmed across the eastern half of North America in the 1970's, CARNIVALS is an homage to Speedy, Yak-Yak, Obie, Lobster Boy, and all the other carnies who lived and worked on Amusements of America. Theirs was a world within a world, traveling through the chaos of post-Viet Nam America as a community of freaks, strippers, clowns and bosses. To them, their world was sane; it was the rest of America that was crazy. In an era when Viet Nam madness was still tearing at the country the carnival was their refuge, their home.