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1915BLACK ENTERTAINERS
EXTREMELY EARLY ALL-BLACK CAST SLAPSTICK COMEDY FILM 1915 EARLY BLACK THEATER ACTORS JIMMY MARSHALL, BERT MURPHY AND FLORENCE MCCLAIM STAR - ALL WELL KNOWN AT THAT TIME TO BLACK THEATER GOERS Racial stereotypes in vaudeville

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TWO BLACK VAUDEVILLE SLAPSTICK COMICS RUSH TO PICK UP AN ENVELOPE OF THEATER TICKETS DROPPED BY A WEALTHY LOOKING WHITE MAN
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TWO AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAP STICK COMICS WALK PRETTY YOUNG WOMAN TO FRONT OF TENEMENT HOUSE
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MAN WHO DROPPED TICKETS RETURNS TO PLACE HE DROPPED THEM AND SEARCHES FOR THEM
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TWO BLACK COMICS CLOWN AROUND IN FRONT OF TENEMENT WAITING FOR PRETTY GIRL - ALL GO AND ENTER THEATER
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BLACK COMICS IN BOX SEATS AT THEATER - WHITE ACTRESS ON STAGE SINGING
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SMALL DOG AT OUTDOOR STAGE ENTRANCE TRIES TO GET INTO THEATER
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1915 ERA ACTRESS PERFORMS TUMBLING ACT " DUMB" ACT
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MS THREE BLACKS IN THEATER BOX SEATS APPLAUD SHOW
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TUMBLING ACT CONTINUES - DOUBLE JOINTED WOMAN ACTRESS PERFORMS GYMNASTIC STYLE GYRATIONS
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MS THREE BLACKS IN THEATER BOX SEATS APPLAUD SHOW AND MAKE FUNNY FACES, CLOWN AROUND
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SMALL DOG WAITS AT STAGE DOOR TRIES TO ENTER THEATER
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BLACK VAUDEVILLE COMICS CLOWN AROUND IN THEATER BOX SEATS VAUDEVILLE SHOW THEATER STAGE HAND CHANGES SCENE CARD FOR ACT - "CLYDE CORTNEY JUGGLER" JUGGLING ACT
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STAGE CURTAIN GOES UP VAUDEVILLE DRUNK JUGGLING ACT
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THREE AFRICAN AMERICAN SPECTATORS IN BOX SEATS REACT LAUGHING And cArrying on
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JUGGLER CONTINUES HIS VAUDEVILLE ACT - SHOT OF DOG AT STAGE DOOR WHO RUNS INTO THEATER AND JUMPS INTO BOX WITH THREE BLACK THEATER AUDIENCE MEMBERS
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CLASSIC CIRCA 1910 VAUDEVILLE JUGGLING ACT ON STAGE
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THREE BLACK AUDIENCE MEMBERS JUGGLE IN THEIR BOX SEATS SLAP STICK COMEDY - DISRUPTS ACT
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BLACK MAN THROWN OUT OF THEATER BY MANAGER
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STEREOTYPED RACIAL DEROGATORY SLANG TITLE CARDS " YES SAH, YES SAH, AM LEABIN HYAR RIGHT NOW"
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BLACK S;SLAPSTICK COMIC DUO AND GIRL RUN AWAY FROM WATCHING POLICEMAN - THEY DECIDE TO "PUT ON A REAL SHOW"
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MAKESHIFT VAUDEVILLE SHOW BY BLACK SLAPSTICK COMICS BLACK AUDIENCE ENTERS STOREFRONT THEATER
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BLACK AUDIENCE WITH SMALL JAZZ BAND INTERIOR OF MAKESHIFT STOREFRONT THEATER
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BLACK AUDIENCE ENTERS THEATER -THEATER PATRONS IN SMALL BLACK THEATER CIRCA 1915 REACT TO BAD SINGER - THEY BOO AND THROW THINGS AT HER -
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SMALL BLACK THEATER AUDIENCE APPLAUDS VIGOROUSLY
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BLACK SLAPSTICK VAUDEVILLE DUO PERFORM THEIR ACT VARIOUS CUTAWAYS TO BLACK AUDIENCE APPLAUDING AND BOOING WILD AUDIENCE REACTIONS TO SLAPSTICK COMICS
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BLACK JUGGLER HURLS BARREL INTO AUDIENCE WHO YELL SCREAM AND CREATE A RUCKUS JUMPING SCREAMING
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TWO BLACK MEN LYING AMUNGST PARTS OF BROKEN BARRELS SMASHED OVER THEIR HEADS
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