Historic Footage- Vaudeville Acts 1898 to 1910 (Part 1 of 2)

[skepticslayer1234]

Do ya think any of these acts could even get on Americas Got Talent? ....... Not a chance.

[StudiodeNaufrage]

just reminds me of Daniel Daye Lewis and his awesome performance in There Will Be Blood, i know im spelling his name wrong but thumb up if he is prob one of the only actors to ever get it right, that is,, the way guys would have talked and acted in the day ^_^

[sheriwhispers]

Poor baby elephant make me shudder to think abt it gwad wot a drag

[mysticx0]

@sheriwhispers the ignorance in your spelling does the same to me...

[dancebandleader]

TheFrankenStand, this is "In the Little

Red School House"  recorded for Edison

discs around 1923 by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, also known on radio as

"The Happiness Boys". I'm late with

this because I heard this for the first

time today,

[TheFrankenStand]

who is singing this music, anyone??

[cha5]

No it's name was Topsey, type in 'electrocuted elephant' for the footage.

[0marianlibrarian]

These old performances are really neat, but I had to skip past the animal acts. That poor elephant looked so sad, and he was just a little guy, no more than 6 or 7 years old maybe.

The door sequence looked a lot like the same gags you'd see in silent films, Bugs Bunny cartoons, or old episodes of Laugh In, and the bike stunts made me think of BMX stunts today. Funnny how some of our modern entertainment traces it's roots back to places you wouldn't expect.

[Hotshotter3000]

A LOT of cliches still used in movies have their roots there. Even terms like 'flop' and 'gag' originated in Vaudeville.

[lithead]

The babboon looked sad and humiliated, too - like he couldn't believe this was his fate.

[recneps2001]

This is an odd collection. Most are circus animal acts that may have featured as occasional vaudeville speciality acts but not the main features: those were singers, comics, dancers. The strong man is Sandow, in an early film of Edison's. The comedy team looks like a relic of Fred Karno's, the British travelling troupe from which Stan Laurel and Chaplin graduated into film after American tours. What's the source of the compilation, please?

[mmodnao]

Great, thank you.

[celtickimba]

Thank you so much for posting this

[musicalqueen101]

This is fascinating. Truly a genre that is built on the elements of great and classic comedy--Roman phlyakes, Italian Commedia dell'Arte and the millions of wandering players from the beginning of time on. A form of entertainment that is one of a kind. Thank you for posting this priceless footage.

[accordeonsteve]

The best sequence: the two guys running from door to another, with the nice lady behind'em!!

[tenniss08]

now i kno how dumbo felt

[griggle990]

Wow, amazing historic footage that will now last forever.

[ejdiii333]

@griggle990 just wondering, where would you expect modern entertainment to get it's roots from? all roots of anything, entertainment,sports, fashion, gardening, transportation, etc are in the past. how could one not expect that?  just wondering.