Cakewalk Dance Clips

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The cakewalk dance, popular in minstrel shows, is performed in these motion pictures by a professional troupe from New York ("Cake Walk" and "Comedy Cake Walk")
The first two sections ("cakewalk" and "comedy cakewalk" were published by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1903.

These are videos in the public domain, and can also be found in "America Dances", a compilation of jazz and blues dance history.
AMERICA DANCES! 1897-1948: A Collector's Edition of Social Dance in Film
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000U0GPO/

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• blue
• shout
• dance
• cakewalk
• cake
• walk
• comedy

[bsobecki23]

Funny thing is..the cakewalk was invented by black people to make fun of the way white people danced. The white people saw them doing it and decided that it was a catchy dance..

[6aeus]

Oh, this looks sinful! Very inappropriate...

[DrDementia1000]

@bsobecki23 Go figure.

[neobiki]

The dude at 1:27 is the best.

[famsteer]

its kinda scary. they all look so weird.

[JavaLuCpp]

Trolls of the 1910 4chan

[pb237723]

pretty sure AKaudio is happily trolling

[applesugarful]

I love this video! SO FUNNY!

[gayforlife2020]

People used to have a lot more physical fun in those days. It was not an easy world, but they didn't have global terror: nor YouTube!

[applesugarful]

@AKaudio Their aren't just black people in Africa moron. If you're going to stereo type at least make sure that it's accurate. dumb ass.

[TheReggeboo2]

i think this is so cool that you found a video from 1903!!! it's really fascinating how people back then didn't care who they were dancing with, like when people were "cartwheeling" over the guy on his knees. nowadays...we all just think we're better than everyone (not that i do)

[flashcloud]

@AKaudio

LOL. You're such a douche.