Vintage Variety Stage and Vaudeville
Film Collection on DVD
61 Films From 1897-1920 Demonstrating Animal Acts,
Burlesque, Comic Sketches, Dance, Physical
Culture, Dramatic Sketches, and Tableaus
The 61 motion pictures in the American Variety Stage collection include
animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic
sketches, physical culture, and tableaus. These motion pictures present
a rare animated record of vaudeville acts from the turn of the century.
Although not filmed during an actual theatrical performance, the films
sought to recreate the atmosphere of a theater performance by showing
the types of vaudeville acts and performers popular at the time. The use
of vaudeville acts as material for motion pictures made sense for early
filmmakers.
Early films were very short; thus the abbreviated nature of the early
vaudeville act, or "turn," made an ideal subject for films.
Vaudeville and other types of popular entertainment offered a pool of
ready talent for filmmakers who frequently chose to record the less expensive,
and, therefore, less famous. It is important to note that very few of
the films in this collection present a vaudeville act exactly as it would
have been performed on stage.
All the motion pictures were silent and could not include the verbal
humor, music, and ambient sounds of the live variety stage. Therefore,
filmmakers had to adapt stage performances and feature the most visual
elements of them on film. The challenge was to find acts with strong visual
components that would work well on films.
This collection of 61 silent variety stage films represents an excellent
cross section of entertainment offered to the masses at this time. It
has a total run time of 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Here are some sample clips from the DVD
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