Black vaudeville acts are featured in this Vitaphone Pepper Pot short. In addition to those listed in the credits, acts include The 3 Whippets, a group of acrobats; and The Five Racketeers, a band that initially backs up Eunice Wilson and then sings "Tiger Rag".
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Is it worth your time? If you have an itch for early sound cinema and want to see how vaudeville looked before it vanished, sure. If you need a narrative or high-production values, you’re going to be bored in about thirty seconds. It’s a dusty, scratchy recording of talent that barely survived the jump to film. There ...
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"Is it worth your time? If you have an itch for early sound cinema and want to see how vaudeville looked before it vanished, sure. If you need a narrative or high-production values, you’re going to be bored in about thirty seconds. It’s a dusty, scratchy recording of talent that barely survived the jump to film. There is this oddly clinical feeling to the way the camera just sits there. It doesn’t do much, just watches. You get a front-row seat to The 3 Whippets doing their acrobatics, and hones..."
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