Original MoonWalk Performed in 1955

[999TERRACOTA]

hello; THE ORIGINAL MOON WALK WAS PERFORMED BY CHARLES CHAPLIN ON THE TWENTIES. MICHAEL JACKSON MADE IT REALLY NICE. MICHAEL JACKSON ALWAYS ADMIRED CHARLES CHAPLIN AND HE SAID HE (CHARLES CHAPLIN)INSPIRED HIM/ ENGLISH IS NOT MY NATIVE LANGUAGE SO IM SORRY FOT THE MISTAKES.

[msmaeification]

@silleeellis conspiracy theorist and idiot, nice combo. Remember..... Inside Voice when you are going to show how retarded WITCH you are. Keep some thoughts to yourself and learn to spell, WHICH I would HAVE done prior to posting, but maybe it is the mind control talking?! I doubt any huge star creates alone, not many truly successful people get there without a team dumbass... I of course mean that with all due respect.

[msmaeification]

@silleeellis um i don't need spell check but i noticed you really got riled up by my comments. Such a sensitive man, could this be love?

[daveayerstdavies]

This footage is Bill Bailey in 1955, but what we (post MJ) call the 'Moonwalk' dates back even earlier to the 1930's when Cab Calloway did a walking-forwards-sliding-backw­ards dance step, but it probably goes back even earlier than that.

[dixiedoodleification]

Michael Jackson stole the moonwalk

[Swindian101]

lol michael's is wayyy better, smoother, better executed. but still cool:)

[fenerlihuss]

who is this?

[SiisiiLovESMJ]

MJ does it much better

[BashuUp]

No GOD was the 1st moonwalker .after he saw how utterly stupid and petty humans were, he moonwalked right outta here and hasn't stopped walking ever-since.

[rolyk1000]

UMM...

[appsuperhog]

tell me your not SERIOUS! right?

[2hamboigahs]

charlie chaplin did it in a movie from the early thirties! - the gold rush

[thekingofcinema1]

hmmmm looks nothing like the moonwalk, i walked backwards when i was 4, so i guess i invented the moonwalk. this is the backslide. not the moonwalk, MICHAEL invented his version of the backslide, called the moonwalk

[journeytom]

@thekingofcinema1 unfortunately Michael didnt invent it - Jeffery Daniel taught Michael how to do it!!

[thekingofcinema1]

@journeytom no, not the moonwalk, the backslide, michael didn't even call it the moonwalk it was coined by the media, because it looked like michael was walking on the moon backwards, he was taught the backslide an michael worked and worked on it and made it what it was in 1983, but the moonwalk kept evolving cus michael was a perfectionist, in the victory the moonwalk evolved again, then in the bad tour again it changed also in the beginning and end of the dangerous tour , it kept changing

[RUFF180]

but jackson brought it back..

[cdubmeyer]

@RUFF180 no, street dancers and Jeffrey Daniels brought it back

[penandzeke]

Admire the artistic, forget your manmade racism, these people, including Micheal Jackson, are brilliant stars, testimonials of the beauty of mankaind, sent to remind us of our universal beauty and to remind us to be thankful for ourselves.

[themattandrohitshow]

Take that mm

[ChristBuilt901x]

He may have invented the moonwalk, but MJ had perfected it. :)

[SwampDaddy7]

The head nod just makes it even cooler.

[jakeTHEsnake809]

reguardless no one will ever top MJ he was the best and undefeated the rest cant compete i love you Micheal ladylove

[gell7]

@jakeTHEsnake809 u a dumbasss even mj, admiring he studied the masters

[hrBertelsen]

It even sounds like the opening beat of billie jean:)

[flirtwd]

the moon walk was a natural step given the style of dance those guys were doing. Hell, if we had a camera that went back 3 thousand years ago and recorded man fighting just about every style would have been seen.

[magprob]

Ronnie Hawkins (and the Hawks) Moon Walk was the best.

[GIJoint]

This guys the man haha!

[headly66]

The moonwalk was done way before this.

[tototoine]

maaaaaan you don't know a thing about the moonwalk...

at the begining the moonwalk is performed by marcel marceau, the step's name is "la marche contre le vent" the walk against the wind...you can see it in "silent movie" by mel brooks...

[TheMagicalPakistan]

Michael Jackson didnt said that this is my move he just performed it Best.... Thumbs up

[Laurelindo]

lol the ending.

[TheMultijonathanb]

michael jackson does it way way way way way better

[Sackblake]

Michael Jackson didn't do it. It was ronnie hawkins. Tards. If you don't believe me, ask the oracle named, "Google."

[thekingofcinema1]

thats not the damn moonwalk, its the backslide, plus, moonwalk, is sliding with your heels

[peterbeater1000]

the moonwalk was actually invented in the year 21 by Jesus

[TheMrairsoftkid]

@peterbeater1000 oh shut up! michael jackson did retard.

[peterbeater1000]

@TheMrairsoftkid did you watch the video b4 u commented?

[msmaeification]

@peterbeater1000 LMMFAO Didn't he steal it from John the Baptist though?

[WispierTetrahedrons]

"No description available" is the perfect description.

[kevinjee]

In 1982, in Malcolm Maclaren video "Buffalo Galls" is a guy pergforming the exact same way of doing as Michael did one year later with Billie Jean...

Want to see it, here the link: /watch?v=9SgvJY9xxcA

Look at 3min32

We all love Michael! We just don't feel right when people look at him blindly, like he created or did everything... Peace...

[meritalong]

@kevinjee That guy didn't create the moonwalk either... The original moonwalk was called the "backslide" and was done in 1955 by this guy.... /watch?v=dGHyXwgUFdY&feature=r­elated

[UrlsGrrl54]

NEWSFLASH, people: Michael never said he "invented" the Moonwalk! What he did do was put some extra sauce on it and elevated it to a level no one has come close to since. And WON'T. Rest in Peace, Michael and to Hell with the HATERS...

[donn409]

This goes to show that you can show people proof and they can be so brainwashed they still deny the truth.

[HK83IE]

HEART BREAK, YOU DUMASSSSS, THAT WAS NOT THE FUCKIN MOONWALK, MORON.

[kevinjee]

If you are so on details, making differences between moonwalk and backkslide... Take that!!! First moonwalk ever seen is 1982 in Malcolm Maclaren Buffalo Galls video!!!

/watch?v=9SgvJY9xxcA

Michael never invented the moonwalk, he saw it and used it!

Right is right...

[kevinjee]

@kevinjee : Look et the very end of the video . 3"32sec

[UrlsGrrl54]

@kevinjee Hey, dumb ass...Michael never claimed to invent it, ok? 

[kevinjee]

@UrlsGrrl54 : Hey blind ass.. I never say Michael claimed it!

[thekingofcinema1]

this is not the moonwalk, its the backslide, plus his doing it on his toes, everyone knows the moonwalk is pushing with your heels and at the same time make a forward movements with your legs which creates that illusion, fact, if we are gonna start saying who did it first the charlie chaplin did the backslide first or cab calloway, but if we are gonna say who did the moonwalk, well that was MJ in 1983

[liamskiner]

moonwalk has been there for a long time...the move does not belong to any artist...but i think jacksons moonwalk was fancier

[thekingofcinema1]

@liamskiner i think the backslide has been around for a long time, but michael took the backkslide and made it so difficult and cool that to this day no one can backslide like michael, thus the perfected backslide is known as the moonwalk, because u cant compare what this guys moonwalk i to Michael jackson moonwalk, MJ moonwalk dosent even look human, he was something else, his moonwalk really made him look like he was walking on the moon itself

[Stoshie]

1955?  Not even close to the first.

[MJacksonBLee]

and he make history!!

[toefur69]

Cab Calloway was doin it at least 20 years before this!

[DaveScarcella]

It was done by Charlie Chaplin.

[dropper3]

It was called the back slid. Caleb.

[jpsmart59]

There is nothing new under the sun, what was will be again and mortal men mere fools.....lol

[Durhandoni]

@jpsmart59 Of Course, because we are living beings with restiricted mainframe capacity.

[DLoWinter]

This same dancer performed the moonwalk earlier, in the movie Cabin in the Sky (1943).

[BlueLeopard200]

MJ never claimed to have invented the moonwalk so I don't know why people think this is a big deal

what he did was perfect it, sharpen it and combine it with other dance steps and his music to create a masterful performance

genius is not just about inventing things from scratch, it's about modifying and combining things to create something new

[christianz2010]

@BlueLeopard200 people claim he did, stupid

[SteveSbc406]

@BlueLeopard200 Neither did the person who posted this video claim that MJ claimed that he invented it. Whether MJ ever claimed to invent it or not is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that countless, in fact a majority of, people do in fact believe that MJ invented it, regardless. This video simply sets the record straight.

Also, MJ didn't necessarilly "perfect" it any better than some of the others before him, he just presented it to a generation who had never seen it before.

[SteveSbc406]

@BlueLeopard200 And he also placed way more emphasis on it than anyone else before him. Others in the past have did with it everything you say MJ has done with it. They've perfected it, sharpened it, and have also combined it with other dance steps.

As I alluded to already, the reason why it was so popular with MJ was due to his existing fame, and that he introduced it to a new generation of people who had not been aware of it, thus making it appear to be something uniquie to MJ himself.

[msmaeification]

@BlueLeopard200  AMEN

[TrillionGrams]

Sounds like the opening to "I got my mind set on you."

[Leoepse]

MJJ is the TRUE king You cant compare Michael Jackson with no one , not even Elvis Presley , if Elvis Presley was still alive and he would sell new records till this day , he would never come close to what Michael have accomplished , THATS HOW BIG MICHAEL IS.

[Leoepse]

MJJ is the TRUE king You cant compare Michael Jackson with no one , not even Elvis Presley , if Elvis Presley was still alive and he would sell new records till this day , he would never come close to what Michael have accomplished

[navneetsohanpal]

/watch?v=9N9KX9kSYpg

[Michael801403]

This is old men's moonwalk

Michael's moonwalk is a new moonwalk

And this is a bad moonwalk performing

[Shadapaga]

@Michael801403 this is impressive michael! you need to pay hommage respect.

[Tomgirl87]

Now THATS HISTORY IN THE MAKING RIGHT THERE

[avosso]

So much hate and madness and competition here. Love each other. Embrace one another for our good works. Pry goodness out of wrongness. It is possible.

[Bigpolak57]

Did he jerk-off a kid too?

[MrOzcap14]

@Bigpolak57 grow up

[SHOGUNX8]

i love how he nods he head like "yeah nigga i created dis shit"

[MikeyJLove4EVER]

@SHOGUNX8 lolzz.. u sloww.. XD

[MYHEARTMUTMINI10]

@SHOGUNX8 hahahaha

[camillasuper]

@Smoker4Hire

Si...e-lascia-sulla-Terra-le-m­erde-come-te...coglione...

[Smoker4Hire]

@camillasuper Sei un coglione più grande di me

[camillasuper]

@Smoker4Hire

e-tue-sese-na-mesda........fet­ida....

[flamingo365]

@Smoker4Hire just another hater...you could never have as much talent as him anyway, i bet if he said to you come on stage and have a dance-off you would wet yourself in fear so shut up bcos he is 10 times better than you

[frankito78]

Common it was a ridiculous moonwalk compared to Michael Jackson moonwalk

[Jacordan]

@big99876: thank you!!!! It's about time someone explained that!!!

[thekingarturo]

It's time we start giving credit to the true creators of dance. Michael Jackson was a great dancer but he did not creat the moonwalk he just brought it main stream.

[big99876]

Ok to all you hating on michael jackson i would like all u ppl to try and sing like him or dance like him. He made more money and got more fame than any other entertainer in the history of entertainers. So shove that up ur butt! Haha

[liesxe]

not the moonwalk

[Flabbbe]

@liesxe then tell me, what it is

[symmylynn]

CALM DOWN PEOPLE DAMN! michael jackson 1) never said he created the moonwalk, 2) he didnt differently than this guy, 3) y arent u insulting other who do the moonwalk too? and 4) he made it popular, its not his fault it didnt catch on when anyone else did it. get over urselves

[mwhite4324]

@emoholacawst fuck u done yet? And yeah ur wrong, Micheal Jackson is a pedophile. Get out of your small minded world and join the rest of us

[XAnimeGuy]

@mwhite4324 MJ was not a pedophile.

[Dstorm20xx]

FLAME WAR!!!

I like to just sit back and watch people be stupid XP

[EMOHOLACAWST]

@inuyasha3790

lol you got some wicked nerd denial and unwarranted self importance going on!

lololol-10 FAIL

you lost and gave up acting like you were bored of it even though you knew you lost-11 FAIL

lmao im not a "toll" you called MJ a pedo and i defended him-13 FAIL

remember"i never said he didnt sell i called him a Pedo"?? LOL YOU STOPPED INCLUDING PEDO IN THOSE LAST TWO COMMENTS AND GAVE UP LOL!!

THE MAIN THING YOU SAID WAS ABOUT MJ WAS A PEDO AND I PROVED YOU WRONG!

LOL -14 FAIL!

[EMOHOLACAWST]

@inuyasha3790

okay

"never said he didnt sell"=i never said anything about you saying he didnt sell DUMB FUCK I WAS SAYING WHY WE LOVE HIM-6 FAIL

"wrong case"-YOU DIDNT EVEN SPECIFY A CASE LOL IDIOT-7 FAIL

"glasses" i was proving to you I COULD READ-8 FAIL

"not doing research" WTF IVE PROVED YOU WRONG EVERY WAY-LOL YOU CALLED HIM A PEDO AND HE ISNT SO YOURE THE ONE NOT DOING RESEARCHLOL-9 FAIL

"oh and youre alive" - WTF IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN??

youre just embarrassing yourself idiot...

[EMOHOLACAWST]

@inuyasha3790

"He himself was the victim of a failed extortion attempt. On June 13, 2005, the jury found Jackson not guilty on all charges"-2003 case

DUDE YOU ARE AN IDIOT-1 FAIL

"you know they say people who call others faggots are actually faggots themselves"-LOL WTF 2 FAIL

"FUKK"-LOL WUT-3 FAIL

"dont worry i know you have not heard of reading,but try it, trust me its fun!"-LOL- 4 FAIL

ME? lol i pwnd you in every way with "manga doesnt count as reading"

me = 5000 win

[EMOHOLACAWST]

@inuyasha3790

LOL

he didnt even rape anybody!

"research research research"

LOLOLOL

"faggot faggot faggot"

[EMOHOLACAWST]

@inuyasha3790 LOL! you think your smart! "Though he was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993, the criminal investigation was closed due to lack of evidence and Jackson was not charged." HAHAHAHAHA! you are a serious fucking IDIOT!1! when did i say anything about not reading? LOL i read so much as a kid i had to get glasses in the 5th grade when i previously had 20-20! oh and "they say" i could give a fuck about "they" i assure you i am not gay by the way-manga doesnt count as reading LOL PWND

[EMOHOLACAWST]

@inuyasha3790

In just over a YEAR, Thriller became—and CURRENTLY REMAINS—the best-selling album of ALL TIME, with sales estimated by various sources as somewhere between SEVENTY FIVE and ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION copies worldwide,[5] and as the BEST SELLING album in the United States.[6] Seven of the album's nine songs were released as singles, and ALL reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album won a record-breaking EIGHT Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammys.

"research" LOL FAGGOT

[EMOHOLACAWST]

@inuyasha3790

FUKK?

lol gtfo you anime fag

[misscarly12]

@inuyasha3790 yeah mj modified and HE DIDNT EVEN SAID HE INVENTED IT so why the hell ur so mad?tsk tsk...

[TheTevinstar4ever]

@inuyasha3790 NO FUCK U>BITCH!!

[cankucuk17]

MJ modified it and found out the aesthetic, michael didn't do any stealing, he orchestrated the song, which is as hard as composing.

[MJFAN216]

who the fuck did not like this.....but still MJ do that much beter becose he can do that with good slide

[TerminalCriticism]

Seamless

[ricardopaula123]

This one is the backslide.

Moonwalk came after...

[BIGHAWK420]

@ricardopaula123 man, the backslide and the "moonwalk" that MJ does are the same dance move lol. The actual moonwalk looks nothing like what MJ does. MJ is the one that named the backslide as the moonwalk

[IMTHEBIGGESTMJFANEVR]

@sp33d40 MJ rules beside that move that Bill did didn't give off the same illusion that Michaels does and elvis was a racist so if you support Elvis a thief who stole from HoundDog from a black person then ur suportin racism which would make you a racist,now im not sayin Elvis had bad music,he just wasn't as good as Michael

Michael didnt create the moonwalk he said it himself,he simply refined it and made it better he made it his and Mike did learn it from a 16 yr old who claimed he made it up.

[souled33]

Your all over the place, talking about Elvis and racist and michael, damn - get your shit together...

[IMTHEBIGGESTMJFANEVR]

Are you that fucking stupid I was referring to sp33d40,beemnn...I was talking to 2 different ppl so if you scroll down page you would know what the hell I was talking to you stupid fuck!!!

[souled33]

lol, classic looser...

[IMTHEBIGGESTMJFANEVR]

Dude get a life, you have been constantly saying shit to me...get a life or kill yourself, you dumb bitch!

And you call me the loser.

Stop talking shit and go fuck your dad!

[Emassenbur]

@souled33 Elvis should not be mention in the same sentence as Michael Jackson. Michael was a LEGEND! IS A LEGEND! Elvis was a joke and he died a joke.

[beatproducerken]

@souled33 against who are you talking?

[BIGHAWK420]

@IMTHEBIGGESTMJFANEVR MJ learned the backslide (moonwalk) from Jeffrey Daniel

[ILikeBrownies01]

this is bill bailey

[SuperMsRocker]

Who is this ?!?

[beemnn]

TO sp33d40 P'se check MJ"s interview after motown 25 He clearly said the move was learned & inspired by children on the streets. ALSO do you mean Elvis intervented guitar rymthum & sound

[beemnn]

if saying MJ is a thief who is not except Adam because he's the first person on earth STILL you could say he STOLE something from god RIGHT?

[TheEddiekills]

haha @sp33d40 elvis sucks balls xD well not really but mj better by a little im sorry about the elvis thing

[sp33d40]

MJ is a thief!!!!! Elvis the man!

[jackjumperfreak]

thats not true....MJ was also inspired....that doenst make him a thief... and serious look at this is at Mj walk...comon man its different but inspired

[Juliasblues]

Everybody knows M J did not invent it ! He just did it good !

[CoreyJohnson95]

mjs better he puts foot straight up im better then that guy im 10

[wickshumphreys]

micheal is a batty boy

[gusanito49]

Michael lo hace mejor a parte todos saben que Michael no lo invento ,se lo enseñaron y lo perfecciono..!!! viva Michael!!

[eliandjen]

MJ learned it from Taco and Shrimp. Ya it's a very old move, but MJ made it his own because of his fame. No problem with that.

[memeej9]

you guys suck so hard someone did it allready in 1932 and mj learned from Jeffrey Daniels and he got it from James brown-.-

[XxGaarasGirlxX]

.....MJ's is better (In my opinion). It gives more of an illusion and it's movement is smoother.

Don't get me wrong Bill's is great! :D

*Attempts moonwalk* I phail at it! XD

[memeej9]

Lol duh this was in 1955 and first time mj did it like 30 years:P