Le Cake-Walk au Nouveau Cirque - Louis Lumière (1902)

[@GinaTonic]

For those who don't know, the tall one in the hat is Jack Brown. He was a vaudeville drag performer from the 1900s. This is the oldest known video of somebody performing in drag.

[@starthelotus3453]

A moment in herstory

[@musimages23]

i recently used this footage in series of collages about the cake walk with musics like minstrel and scott joplin. thank you so much for posting this

[@videoinformer]

It's cool to see black and white performers performing together without distinction in such an early moving picture. It would be even cooler to know their audience was likewise mixed, without distinction.

[@musicdoq]

Wow. Thanks for sharing. You certainly made my day.

[@lucylush9232]

A peace of history xxLush

[@georgesnovi5138]

premier clip musical afro-americain en france!

[@RaKhaanambamm]

Very nice. 💛 this antique

[@samaval9920]

Cakewalk was US’s 1st dance music song export.

[@foodtestingstrips]

I believe this played at the French World's Fair

[@jamesdeaville9731]

Wonderful!

[@sebastiendamarey6673]

"Mademoiselle voulez-vous danser le Cake-Walk, le Cake-Walk, Mademoiselle voulez-vous danser le Cake-Walk va commencer"

[@aneasybee]

athe athe

[@HB-yq8gy]

Wow from the classic cakewalk to twerking thug life hip-hop rap.

[@samaval9920]

Vodou, doy,?Haiti,!Dahomey, New Orleans,+? Cakewalk it s dance come from N0?

[@RogerGibbs-d3y]

You can see the humour in the dance movements - the parodying of upper class pretentious gait.