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

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

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  • 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.

  • Wow, amazing historic footage that will now last forever.

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

  • @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.

  • 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 the ignorance in your spelling does the same to me...

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

  • 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,

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

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

  • who is singing this music, anyone??

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

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