If you could have seen this live, you'd be dead now. Who would choose to have been an adult almost 100 years ago?

There would not have been colour prints. In those days they used technicolour, which used black and white film

The music was off the charts? If suckage? lol

Esmee Phillips Hi! You know a lot about 1900-1929 Broadway? Staging of large dance numbers in 1920 were not as polished as in 1929? And the two men you mentioned, John Tiller and Russell Markert were choreographers? This is fantastically interesting to me.

@@cattycorner8 John Tiller, an Englishman, invented precision dancing with long chorus lines high-stepping in unison or performing complex maneuvers. He took this style to the USA and set up a school which trained instructors. A Tiller Girls show greatly impressed a young hoofer named Russ Markert. He imitated it and was engaged by the new Radio City Music Hall to stage floor shows complementing its ballet company. That gave birth to the Rockettes, which Markert ran for 39 years until 1991. Busby Berkeley is given credit for many moves which these two guys originated on stage. Tiller died before sound films came in and Markert preferred Broadway to Hollywood. Being a Rockette is probably the most demanding gig in popular dance.

+James Jordan Flapper showgirls and dancers turn me on, to bad we weren't both born about 1905.

Yes, an era that had its problems, but oh, what it produced! We will never see or relive that wonderful era of great Jazz and popular music and incredible movies! I am so grateful that so much has been preserved on record and film, books, illustrations and all the other media that illustrate the wonderful 1920's and 1930's. We can be grateful that KZfaq is a great depositor and expositor of this creative era. I have much of that era in my collection, but KZfaq overwhelms me in this respect! Let's hope that KZfaq endures!

Because of You Tube I can see the musicians and singers perform who've I've listened to my whole life.You Tube makes it so much easier than digging out a 78 rpm, plus the content on You tube overwhelms the size of my record collection; a lot of times you get to see the performer(s) do their thing. The 20's & 30's: another time, another place, but I was there atleast in spirit.

Yes, but it was the Depression and I'm sure they were happy to have work, no matter how tedious and underpaid.

Zeigfield spent a lot on his shows. I bet the pay was pretty good.

Yes!!! The detail and beauty 🙏🏻♥️

You mean a million?

Not many job fields where people look upon your work with awe and wonder 100 years later. Computer programs are gone in a couple years and most buildings dont last a century. But those costumes are mythical magical things immortalized on film and inspiring after 100 years!

How do you know? Is there extant film of them in the 1910’s?

Ziegfeld. Pinnacle.

Norm M: A device that Michael Jackson saw, copied and even patented!

We came close with Busby Berkeley.

Even if they did, everyone would be checking their smart phones and not paying attention.

@@marygambino1389 He was already choreographing Broadway shows in the 1920's and doing the big musicals in films in the early 1930's.

That's Marjorie Kane. I think that was kind of a popular style back then.

Me too

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Of course. That is Mel Brooks' parody of a Ziegfeld number. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdx9kq2h1rzNcnU.html

Nancy Carroll is not part of that number. The female singer is Marjorie Kane.

@@atqui Ah, I did worry after posting that the lady looked too young and short. Nancy was 5'4. Thanks for the correction. I will leave the comment up for its info.

There was a misconception about the Great Depression. Not everyone suffered. Most of the hard times fell on people who lived in the cities. The rural areas of America were not directly affected since most people who lived outside cities were farmers and could live off the land. They made just about everything they needed, grew their own food, didn't have any money invested in stocks, and were pretty much self sufficient. I have this information on direct authority on some who lived through it. Americans have lost their resourcefulness and now are helpless if they loose their can openers.

So the Dust Bowl never happened. Farms didn't get foreclosed. Tell that to all the Oakies that went west. If people in the cities couldn't afford food how were the farmers supposed to sell their crops?

J kK Vass you dere Sharlie? ---Jack Pearl---

@@389383 it's 1929. The dust bowl wasn't there yet but it was on it's way.

Technicolor????!

@@miriamhavard7621 Yes. It was used sparingly, and usually just tints, nothing like the color that would be used in the 1950's

Sadly. I cannot believe that someone did not have the foresight to film the entire show and put it on a DVD so that people could enjoy it who were never able to see it in person.

Think it's Paramount's 'The Dance of Life' from 1929, the year when cinemas were flooded by canned stage shows.

I believe Lucille Ball started off as a Ziegfeld girl.

Yes.

Yes I see what you were saying and to be honest, I think it would be a lot more interesting if they were really intended that way. Let's celebrate the most glorious part of male anatomy!

Oui oui

Gender WAS the cornerstone of the Follies. Men come out to look at beautiful women, the women came out to look at the clothes.

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This was 1929. Four years later, the Hays censorship office started cracking down. They buttoned up Maureen O'Sullivan's "Jane costume in the "Tarzan" movies, and limited the length that characters could kiss at one time. No gays. No blacks, except as servants. No profanity, except "Gone With the Wind" Things started loosening up in the '50's, but it wasn't until 1968 that movie ratings started. I'm still trying to figure out how "Midnight Cowboy got an "X", even in 1969.

Stuart Lee The Cotton Club. There may be videos here or you might enjoy the Coppola film of the same name (1984).

Segregated, working in the janitorial dept., chauffeuring, babysitting, cooking.

@@miriamhavard7621 so do you have a problem with cooking? just how do you think food was prepared, without someone to bake, boil, or roast it? Just where did you get the idea that there is something degrading about working as a chef or a cook? Why do you think that you should eliminate every job as not suitable, so that what's left for acquiring money is welfare or shoplifting? You degrade every decent job, as though certain people are too good for it...and you degrade people. I doubt that you can actually explain what is bad about working as a chauffeur.

Are you going to be particular?