- Title: 19501
- Summary: THE AMERICAN VARIETY STAGE: VAUDEVILLE & POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT FROM AMERICAN VARIETY STAGE SHOWS
- Description: "01:00:02 - FIGHTS OF NATIONS (1907) 01:00:04 - MEXICO & SPAIN MEXICAN MAN CREEPING AROUND WITH KNIFE. HIDES BEHIND STONE FENCE 01:00:19 - HAPPY YOUNG COUPLE IN FANCY COSTUME DANCE AROUND GARDEN 01:00:38 - COURTING ROMANTIC COUPLE SIT ON BENCH HOLDING HANDS 01:00:46 - JEALOUS PEASANT RISES FROM HIS HIDING PLACE & TRIES TO STAB HIS RIVAL. WOMAN GRABS HIS ARM AND STOPS HIM. LOVE TRIANGLE 01:00:59 - MEN FIGHTING OVER KNIFE 01:01:48 - WOMAN BEGS SUITOR NOT TO KILL RIVAL HE LETS MAN GO 01:02:16 - MAN DROPS KNIFE AS COUPLE HAPPILY HUG 01:02:18 - OUR HEBREW FRIENDS ETHNIC JEWISH HUMOR STEREOTYPES OF OLD HEBREW CHEAPSKATES 01:02:22 - JEWISH MAN ARGUING WITH JEWISH TIE PEDDLER. MEN PUSH EACH OTHER WHILE FAT MAN TRIES TO WALK PAST THEM 01:02:42 - MEN ASK ANOTHER MAN FOR HELP BUT THEY START FIGHTING WITH HIM 01:02:59 - MEN FORM CIRCLE & KICK EACH OTHER IN BUTT 01:03:02 - POLICEMAN ARRIVES & BREAKS THEM APART. THREATENS MAN WITH STICK 01:03:20 - MAN SECRETLY PAYS OFF COP WITH BRIBE BEHIND HIS BACK AS HE TALKS TO OTHER MEN 01:03:27 - CON MAN PULLS STRING WHICH IS ATTACHED TO MONEY IN COP'S POCKET. MONEY IS RETRIEVED AS COP HAPPILY WALKS AWAY SWINGING STICK 01:03:29 - THREE MEN HAPPILY HUG EACH OTHER 01:03:33 - HOOT MON! A SCOTTISH COMBAT SCOTS MEN WITH KILTS SWORDS & SHIELDS HAVE SWORD FIGHT DUEL. MAN KILLED OPPONENT DISARMED STANDS VICTORIOUS WITH HIS FOOT ON MAN'S CHEST. 01:04:23 - * SUNNY AFRICA EIGHTH AVENUE NEW YORK BLACK COUPLES DANCING WHILE PIANO PLAYER PLAYS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN DANCE HALL. 01:04:51 - WAITER SERVES DRINKS TO TABLES 01:05:00 - YOUNG MAN IN CAP & STRIPED SHIRT PERFORMS ENERGETIC TAP DANCE AS OTHER PATRONS WATCH AND CLAP. 01:05:51 - OLDER SUITED GENTLEMAN SITS AT TABLE WITH YOUNG MAN'S GIRL 01:06:20 - COUPLES DANCE LIVELY CAKEWALK 01:06:35 - YOUNG MAN RETURNS & ANGRILY BREAKS DANCING COUPLE APART. 01:06:39 - TWO MEN DRAW LARGE KNIVES & FIGHT UNTIL WOMAN & WAITER FINALLY SEPARATE THEM. 01:06:55 - SMILING YOUNG MAN & HIS LADY CAKEWALK OUT THE DOOR. 01:07:00 - SONS OF THE OULD SOD WOMAN HANGS CLOTHES ON LAUNDRY LINE FROM UPPER WINDOW OF TWO-STORY TENEMENTAS AS HUSBAND RETURNS HOME WITH PAIL OF BEER. 01:07:19 - NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR MAN COMES OUT & SITS ON BENCH IN FRONT OF BUILDING & READS NEWSPAPER. 01:07:36 - WOMAN ACCIDENTALLY DROPS WET SHEET ON NEIGHBOR'S HEAD WHICH MAKES HIM ANGRY YELLING UP AT HER & SHAKING FISTS 01:07:52 - HUSBAND DUMPS SAWDUST ON NEIGHBOR WHO RUNS BACK INTO APARTMENT 01:08:04 - HUSBAND LEANING OUT WINDOW GETS STUCK AS WINDOW SHUTS ON HIM 01:08:07 - NEIGHBOR COMES OUT WITH GARDEN HOSE & SPRAYS MAN WITH WATER 01:08:12 - WOMAN COMES OUT & BREAKS BARREL OVER HIS HEAD. 01:08:27 - HUSBAND COMES OUT & MEN HAVE FIST FIGHT 01:08:43 - WIFE ENDS BATTLE BY BRINGING OUT BUCKET OF BEER & POURING DRINKS FOR WEARY MEN WHO LAUGH & TOAST EACH OTHER. 01:09:10 - AMERICA THE LAND OF THE FREE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS COME DOWN GRAND STAIRCASE DECORATED WITH VARIOUS PATRIOTIC FLAGS & AMERICAN EAGLE. HAPPILY INTRODUCE THEMSELVES TO EACH OTHER. REPRESENTING DIFFERENT COUNTRIES: FRANCE RUSSIA BRITIAN SPAIN MEXICO 01:10:42 - NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN WOMAN BOWS 01:10:57 - TWO YOUNG U.S. SOLDIERS & UNCLE SAM 01:11:09 - THE SOCIETY RAFFLES (1905) HIGH SOCIETY MAN WEARING FORMAL EVENING CLOTHES TALKS TO BURGLER OUTSIDE WINDOW. 01:11:19 - BUTLER SHOWS WOMAN INTO ROOM WHO SITS DOWN ON SEAT IN FRONT OF WINDOW WITH MAN 01:11:35 - MAN FLIRTS WITH WOMAN & TAKES OFF HER DIAMOND TIARA & HANDS IT TO THEIF OUTSIDE WINDOW 01:11:43 - MAN CHECKS HIS POCKET WATCH & LEAVES ROOM 01:11:51 - WOMAN SEES BURGLER & REALIZES HER JEWELS HAVE BEEN STOLEN 01:11:56 - SCREAMS & FAINTS ONTO COUCH 01:12:02 - ARABIAN GUN TWIRLER (1899) BEARDED MAN IN TURBAN PERFORMS RIFLE TWIRLING ACT (CHERIFF WAS PERFORMER ON MIDWAY PLAISANCE OF 1893 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION IN CHICAGO PERHAPS IN A STREET IN CAIRO OR TURKISH VILLAGE EXHIBITS) 01:12:55 - BICYCLE TRICK RIDING NO. 2 (1899) NEIDERT PERFORMS BICYCLE RIDING TRICKS: BACKWARDS CIRCLE BALANCING AS HE REARS UP &S PINS FRONT WHEEL. 01:13:38 - EXPERT BAG PUNCHING (1903) GUS KELLER NOVELTY BAG PUNCHER HITTING PUNCHING BAG. DEMONSTRATES SEVEN TYPES OF EXHIBITION BAG PUNCHING 01:15:15 - GORDON SISTERS BOXING (1901) CHAMPION LADY BOXERS OF THE WORLD ENGAGED IN ONE-ROUND SPARRING EXHIBITION. (MOST LIKELY BESSIE AND MINNIE) 01:16:59 - JAPANESE ACROBATS (1904) ASIAN MAN FLIPPING BOY AROUND ACROBATICALLY ON HIS FEET. MAN JUGGLES & SPINS BOY WITH HIS FEET. 01:18:53 - LATINA CONTORTIONIST (1905) WOMAN BENDS & SLIPS METAL RING AROUND HER BENT BODY 01:19:40 - INTERLACES HER FINGERS & BENDS HER ARMS BEHIND HER BACK DISLOCATING HER SHOULDERS IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE ACT DEMONSTRATING THAT SHE CAN COMPLETELY REVOLVE HER ARMS IN SHOULDER SOCKETS. 01:20:25 - SANDOW (1896) STRONG-MAN EUGENE (EUGEN) SANDOW POSES WEARING ONLY TIGHT TRUNKS & LACED SANDALS. FLEXES HIS MUSCLES TO ACCENTUATE HIS MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT. PERFORMS STANDING BACKFLIP. 01:20:55 - KAWANA TRIO ARTISTIC FOOT JUGGLERS (1919) YOUNG ASIAN ACROBATS JUGGLE PEOPLE OBJECTS WITH THEIR FEET. OPENS TO ACROBATS DRESSED IN KIMONOS. *SEQUENCE REPEATS 01:27:33 - THREE ACROBATS (1899) VAUDEVILLE STAGE ACT OF TWO MALE & ONE FEMALE CLOWN-ACROBATS WHO MAKE USE OF CONSTRUCTED BREAK-AWAY BRICK-LOOKING WALL OF SPRING- HINGED WINDOWS & DOORS THAT TURN & FLIP AS THEY WALK THROUGH & CHASE EACH OTHER IN AND AROUND 01:28:17 - TRELOAR AND MISS MARSHALL (1904) PRIZE WINNERS AT THE PHYSICAL CULTURE SHOW IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. BEATRICE MARSHALL POSING ON PEDESTAL IN VARIOUS POSITIONS LOOKING LIKE STATUE 01:29:12 - SHIRTLESS TRELOAR (A.T. JENNINGS) WITH LEOPARD LOIN CLOTH IN MASCULINE POSES SHOWING OFF HIS MUSCLES 01:30:33 - KRUGER AND WARD THE TALL AND SHORT OF IT (1919) TWO CLOWNS: DWARF WITH A FAKE BALD PATE DRESSED IN EVENING CLOTHES & TALL THIN CLOWN DRESSED AS A WOMAN. DWARF FOLLOWS WOMAN & TRIES TO GIVE HER BACK HANDKERCHIEF BUT SHE DOESN'T NOTICE HIM 01:31:01 - CONTORTIONIST CLOWN HANGS FROM TRAPEZE WHILE DWARF HANGS FROM HIS TEETH & UNDRESSES FROM TUXEDO TO SHINY ACROBAT OUTFIT 01:31:40 - SHIRTLESS DWARF CONTORTS HIS BACK MUSCLES & DISLOCATES HIS SHOULDERS. FLEXES UPPER MUSCLES. 01:31:52 - CLOWN LAYS ON TABLE & CONTORTS HIMSELF IN DIFFERENT POSITIONS TYING HIS LEGS IN KNOTS & PRETZELS 01:32:26 - CLOWN LIFTS DWARF UP ONTO GYMNAST RINGS WHERE HE FLIPS AROUND DISLOCATING HIS SHOULDERS AS HE TURNS CONTINUALLY 01:33:15 - CLOWN GIVES DWARF BOOST ONTO HANGING BAR WHERE HE SWINGS ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD 01:33:30 - CLOWN HANGING BY ONE ARM FROM BAR WRAPS HIS LEGS AROUND HIS TORSO & ROTATES SO THAT HIS CONTORTED BODY SPINS. MORE LEG TWISTING CONTORTIONS & BODY KNOTS 01:33:59 - ANIMATED COMMONWEALTH PICTURE LOGO OF THEATRE ORCHESTRA 01:34:23 - THREE JUMPING TOMMIES IN THEIR ORIGINAL ACROBATIC STUNTS (1918) ACROBATS IN BRITISH MILITARY UNIFORMS FLIPPING AROUND IN VARIETY OF ACROBATIC AND GYMNASTIC STUNTS. CARTWHEELS SOMERSAULTS SHUFFLE DANCE 01:36:28 - ACROBAT SITS ON CHAIR ON TOP OF TOWER OF TABLES & FLIPS OFF BACKWARDS LANDING UPRIGHT ON STAGE 01:36:42 - TOTO BROTHERS: BALANCING & IRON JAW NOVELTY ACT (1919) STRONGMAN & CLOWN IN SAILOR SUIT PERFORM BALANCING ACTS ON CHAIRS. CLOWN DOES SOMERSAULTS SLAP-AND-TUMBLE COMEDY FALLING 01:40:37 - STRONGMAN LIFTS TABLE & CHAIRS WITH MOUTH 01:41:50 - LIFTS CLOWN SITTING IN CHAIR WITH MOUTH 01:42:11 - SPIRIT OF '76 (1905) FILMED RECREATION OF 1875 PAINTING THE SPIRIT OF '76 BY ARCHIBALD M. WILLARD. TRIO OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIFE & DRUM PLAYERS ARE JOINED BY MAN WITH BANDAGED HEAD WAVING AMERICAN FLAG ON STAGE DEPICTING BATTLEFIELD 01:43:25 - FEMALE TURKISH DANCER ELLA LOLA (1898) *POSSIBLY WILLIAMS & WALKER TROUPE WITH GEORGE WALKER BERT WILLIAMS AND AIDA OVERTON WALKER IN SUNNY AFRICA ."
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1896
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1890s
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