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Vintage Variety Stage and Vaudeville Film Collection - 61 Films From 1897-1920 Demonstrating Animal Acts, Burlesque, Comic Sketches, Dance, Physical Culture, Dramatic Sketches, and Tableaus Posters
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Vintage Variety Stage and Vaudeville Film Collection - 61 Films From 1897-1920 Demonstrating Animal Acts, Burlesque, Comic Sketches, Dance, Physical Culture, Dramatic Sketches, and Tableaus DVD
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Rating:  -
Purchased as a historic time capsule,
I got what I expected. Would've been
nicer with some background-music, but,
watched in different segments-- on
different days-- it's a very DIFFERENT
time-killer. Got my money's worth.
Rating:  -
In the late 1890s, nickelodeons began popping up by the thousand all over the United States. These tiny movie houses showed what were essentially film clips by today's standards. The customer base was primarily working poor and transplanted Europeans, for in their infancy, the movies (and those who attended them) were considered déclassé by genteel society. Immigrants (especially those who didn't speak English), found these flickering moving images helpful in learning the ways of America.
Early film vignettes were quite diverse-- circus and other parades, winter sports, skyscraper construction, street urchin gymnasts, open air markets, pushcart peddlers, panoramic cityline vistas or candid ground-level shots of a busy street were all subjects of pioneer cameramen. (For such examples, see NEW YORK CITY NY - 45 VERY EARLY FILMS FROM 1898-1905.) The movies weren't always direct-from-life or meant to be educational. Some were simply for fun, as this unusual collection of vaudeville performances demonstrates.
The DVD program is divided into seven categories: Animal Acts, Burlesque, Comic Sketches, Dance, Dramatic, Physical Culture and Tableau (there's only one of these). A title and date precedes each segment. There is no audio track. Video quality on some films is grainy and a bit blurred; others are badly degraded-- about what you'd expect from century old nitrate stock and paper prints. Projection speed is off, so the disc is best viewed on a PC DVD player (like InterVideo) with playback set at 70% of normal. At this speed, running time is considerably over 2 hours.
CONTENTS:
(any marked ** are from Spanuth's Original Vod-A-Vil Movies)
ANIMAL ACTS--
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog (5/6/09)
Stealing A Dinner (6/13/03)
Baboon, Dog and Monkey ** (ca.1919-20)
Tom Tinker's Pony Patter ** (4/5/19)
Jumbo - The Trained Elephant, Parts 1 & 2 ** (4/5/19)
BURLESQUE--
From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen (9/12/03)
Karina (10/14/02)
Kiss Me (with Rose St. Dell) (2/27/04)
Pity the Blind #2 (2/2/04)
Princess Rajah Dance (6/3/04)
Trapeze Disrobing Act (11/11/01)
Turkish Dance, Ella Lola (10/7/98)
COMIC SKETCHES--
Alphonse and Gaston #3 (10/27/03)
As In a Looking Glass (5/29/03)
The Boys Think They Have One on Foxy Grandpa, but He Fools Them (5/23/02)
The Chimney Sweep and the Miller (4/16/02)
Dancing Boxing Match - Montgomery and Stone (5/7/07)
Dog Factory, Parts 1 & 2 (4/21/04)
The Extra Turn (10/3/03)
A Frontier Flirtation (10/1/03)
A Gesture Fight In Hester Street (8/19/03)
Happy Hooligan ((6/20/07)
Levi and Cohen, the Irish Comedians (6/8/03)
Mr. Jack in the Dressing Room (3/29/04)
The Serenaders (11/11/02)
Subub Surprises the Burglar (8/11/03)
The Tramp's Unexpected Skate (5/23/01)
2 A.M. in the Subway (6/20/05)
A Wake In "Hell's Kitchen" (6/12/03)
DANCE--
Ameta (4/24/08)
Betsy Ross Dance (6/25/03)
Cake Walk (5/11/03)
Charity Ball (9/24/97)
Comedy Cake Walk (5/11/03)
Crissie Sheriden (10/25/97)
Dance, Franchonetti Sisters (4/24/03)
Fougere (6/7/02)
Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity (5/23/02)
A Nymph of the Waves (4/24/03)
A "Tough" Dance (12/19/02)
DRAMATIC--
Duel Scene, "By Right of Sword" (1/16/04)
A Ballroom Tragedy (6/22/05)
FIGHTS OF NATIONS (2/18/07)
Part 1: "Mexico and Spain," "Our Hebrew Friends"
Part 2: "'Hoot Mon!' A Scottish Conflict," "Sunny Africa - Eighth Avenue, NY"
Part 3: "Songs of the Ould Sod." "America, The Land of the Free"
The Society Raffles (12/7/05)
PHYSICAL CULTURE--
Arabian Gun Twirler (3/20/99)
Toto Brothers - Balancing and Iron Jaw Novelty Act ** (2/26/20)
Bicycle Trick Riding, #2 (3/20/99)
Expert Bag Punching (Gus Keller) (7/28/03)
Gordon Sisters Boxing (5/6/01)
Japanese Acrobats (4/29/04)
Latina, Contortionist (11/21/05)
Latina, Dislocation Act (11/21/05)
Sandow (6/11/03)
Kawana Trio - Artistic Foot Juggling ** (4/5/19)
Three Acrobats (3/20/99)
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners of the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden (1/16/04)
Kruger and Ward - The Tall and Short of It ** (2/26/20)
Three Jumping Tommies ** ( 2/26/20)
TABLEAU--
Spirit of '76 (5/19/05)
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