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[Historical films: Cake walk] [motion picture]
- Title
- [Historical films: Cake walk] [motion picture]
- Publication
- 1902-1904.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZHB 4-2464 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 reel. 5 min. 106 ft. : si. b&w.; 16 mm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Five short films from the Historical Films Paper Print Collection in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.
- Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
- Contents
- CONTENTS: Bally-hoo cake walk. (1903) Summary: A group of black dancers perform a cakewalk, passing in front of the camera position. -- Cake walk. (1903) Summary: Wesley Hill leads Luke Blackburn, the Pugsley Sisters, and Pickaninny Hill in a cakewalk. -- A cake walk on the beach at Coney Island. (1904) Summary: On the sand at the seashore, lines of men and women in bathing suits cavort past the camera. -- Comedy cake walk. (1903) Summary: Three black men and two black women, formally attired, dance the preliminaries to the cake walk. -- Fougère. (1902) Summary: A girl in the costume of a cancan dancer performs her act which represents the famous Eugénie Fougère's version of the rag-time cakewalk "Hello ma baby" at the New York Theater.
- Call Number
- *MGZHB 4-2464
- OCLC
- NYPY926033161-F
- Title
- [Historical films: Cake walk] [motion picture]
- Imprint
- 1902-1904.
- Local Subject
- Variety dancing -- United States.Motion pictures. Bally-hoo cake walk.Motion pictures. Cake walk.Motion pictures. A cake walk on the beach at Coney Island.Motion pictures. Comedy cake walk.Motion pictures. Fougère.
- Added Author
- Fougère, Eugenie.American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZHB 4-2464