After Seben in color | AI enhanced and colorized
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- The dance competition scene from the short movie "After Seben" (1929). Featuring Chick Webb and his orchestra, and Shorty George & Mattie Purnell dancing Charleston and Breakaway amongst other dancers.
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An early sound short of major historical import. Although it is a fictionalized Harlem nightclub scene, it features Chick Webb playing for the major dancers of the Savoy Ballroom. Three couples perform the latest dance styles of 1929, primarily influenced by partner Charleston. The last couple is Shorty Snowden and his partner Maddie Purnell. They are just terrific, although their style may look dated to us.
Note how Snowden introduces Breakaway steps to the closed-form Charleston and you’ll feel like you are witnessing the birth of the Lindy Hop, which, in fact, was the name that Snowden gave to the dance he was doing. The couple exits exuberantly with a Cake Walk.
Music by the Savoy Ballroom house band, Chick Webb and his Orchestra.
The emcee is white vaudeville comic and eccentric dancer James Barton performing in blackface. He had a long career in film and tv, and is best remembered as Kit Carson in ‘The Time of Your Life’ (1948).
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Band:
Chick Webb and his orchestra
MC / solo dancer:
James Barton
3rd dance couple:
George 'Shorty' Snowden
Mattie Purnell (Mattie Purcell on IMDb)
Other dancers are unfortunately unknown (please let us know with trusted source if you know their names!).
This video is AI-enhanced and colorized by Karri Rasinmäki. First, source material was remastered using DeepRemaster to remove film noises and to make other improvements. Then, the remastered clip was colorized using DeOldify and DeepRemaster. Lastly, the final clip was composed, edited, further fine-tuned and upscaled on Davinci Resolve.
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Fantastic dancers. I never realized how technical and seemingly complex the footwork was. This video is a gem. So I glad footage of the ingenuity and talents of our people has been documented and preserved. 😍👋❤️
just slow the speed down to 1/2 in the settings and you can see how incredibly complicated the footwork is especially for couple number 3.
As an almost 30 year old, I was taught about racism is school but seeing black face like this really shows you just how much racism was woven into the fabric of this country. Minstrel shows make me really sad too. It is very important to protect and remember history like this but man is it uncomfortable to watch.
Yes, it’s very uncomfortable especially being a Black person. But we don’t make laws to ban it! But when we teach true history, there are people who says they’re uncomfortable seeing what their people did; therefore, they ban it, because they don’t want their feelings hurt!
@@marjorjorietillman856 this may sound stupid, but respectfully, as someone who isn't black, i can only try and imagine how it feels to watch something like this where to me it is simply something academic
We full of magic and greatness...don't need no old footage to tell me that.
I would have voted for couple number 3. Liza "Underdunk"
had some wild moves and the footwork was incredible for both.
YES! Me too 😁. They were great!
Man, I wish night clubs were still like this. (The entertainment I mean, not the segregation).
We knew what you meant.
@@alanmorris7669 lol, I know I was just being silly. But you can’t be too careful on the internet these days.
LML!!! IN MY AUNT ESTER VOICE,,,
""" WATCH IT SUCKA """ 😂🤣😂
@@blessnus lol, I had to google Aunt Ester because I had no idea what you were talking about. I’m English so Sanford and Son wasn’t on here. Turns out it was a remake of one of our shows classic shows, Steptoe and Son. From that I’m guessing instead of “know your place” in the British class system was Aunt Ester was “know your place” in the American racialism landscape?
It is
Isn’t it crazy back then we could be the entertainment but not the actors. The guy introducing in the beginning is in black face. Reason why these videos are important not only for admiring entertainment but history!
yeah, this is pretty bizarre a scene, i guess you would have to watch the short film from which is excerpted. i was actually brought here because of the guy in blackface, his name is james barton and i just watched an episode of the old tv show 'the naked city' that he stars in as a bowery bum in the 1950s, also worth watching, season 1, episode 18. apparently bing crosby placed him in his list of ten favorite entertainers ever. this guy was performing since the 1890s and was considered an early jazz dancer.
SO GOOD! Thanks again for doing these colorizations; they really bring them to life in new ways.
The white announcer in blackface is James Barton.
the MC is in Black face!
That's true.
Thanks for confirming - thought so but wasn’t sure. :(
The MC was Cab Calloway and he was Black.
@@vanessa_the_mindset_maven Sorry not so. I don't know who he is but there NO resemblance at all to Cab.
Yeah that's makeup, he's definitely not black...
😍😍🥰🥰 Thank you 🙏💜
Couple #3 are fantastic! They start with Charleston moves, segue into a bit of swing dancing, and exit with some old-fashioned cakewalking
Side Eye to the male in Black Face
I think its a toss up between couple number 3, 2:02 and the white boy doing this impossible move 3:46.
Nah, nah, couple n. 3 all the way 😂!
They forgot to applaud couple number 2 start and finish 😳
My man at the end killed it!
Is that announcer dude in blackface?! Someone doing blackface nowadays get called out, reamed into submission.
the announcer is definitely in black face huh? Or did the coloring of this make him look that way?
Def blackface 😑
Are you joking? Just take a look at that weird 'hair' on his head. Clue n. 1
his name is james barton, yes, he performed frequently in blackface. blackface seems so bizarre to me. it's like i'm here in the room performing with you, but i'm simultaneously ridiculing you and you have to be okay with it? i can't understand it any other way and it's crazy to think that was what it was in the twentieth century.
Beautiful!
🖤🖤🖤
The Host and last dancer is a white man in black face
He sure can dance though
@@StartledPancake he was apparently one of the earlier jazz dancers, james barton. also an actor, i just watched him on an old episode of the naked city which is what brought me here.
American Indian genius
I wish I could find a way to enjoy this. I just seen the faces of those black men in the background and how insulting it is for this white man to such ignorant imitation, caricature of them to their faces, it’s rough. But I’m glad that at least answersimages were caught on film. Can’t lie about her they were.
Did the announcer have on black face?
Yes, sadly. You can also read that in the description from the uploader: The emcee is white vaudeville comic and eccentric dancer James Barton performing in blackface.
What is not mentioned and what should be mentioned, is, the other racial slur, After Seben is supposed to be After Seven but it was written that way due to what many thought was the way African-American pronounced "Seven" (sigh).
@@killerdillr ah ha! I couldn't figure out what!!! the title meant. You're right pretty obnoxious title 😠.
I think that some of these people where born on the year 1900 or late 1898. By 2029 this picture would have been a century and we will have been looking into the past 100 years. Imagine these people living up to 30 years after 2000.
the emcee was born in 1890, chick webb was in this and was born in 1905
Looks like blackface. If so that's offensive
It is written in the text below the video: The emcee is white vaudeville comic and eccentric dancer James Barton performing in blackface.
The black face is too disturbing…it’s a shame. It’s shameful 🥺