Jack Stanford, eccentric "rag" dance / "Lappentanz" / "тряпичный" танец, 1935 

Lol, this shit is stupid, AF.....not brilliant

It used to be Silly Walks? Should have been renamed in the new cabinet - I'm not up to date

@@Naftalinoff my bad, I did mean silly, not funny, but I was tired and falling asleep.

Damn good

He, actually, didn't have "rubber" bones, but masterfully created impression that he has

It's gonna be a long walk then - without driving license

@@Naftalinoff the thing is walking home moving like this all the time. That will leave the cops clueless.

Stick with the FST, this is a lot harder 😅

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Jackson danced differently, this is too much of exaggeration to say that he repeated Stanford

You can't just randomly call people child molesters.

​@@stephen300o6 ????

No, not than "anything"!

Er ist immer noch!

Rhythmic Sport Gymnastics! Aren't such moves actually already used in breakdance?

I think it is, Jack Stanford took the first letters of his last name and was called Stan Laurel

@@learndaanswers3066 Wrong, I know what Stan Laurel looks like, he’s got that famous big smile and cries all the time, despite the hat.

He looks like Stan Laurel .

@@goatrock123 I thought so at first, but it’s not him.

I've tried Jack Stanford with "Smooth Criminal" too. This is a good idea!

Yep...me too!

More likely Britain in this case

They are from the same vaudeville epoch

U tb hahahha. Num video a aparece michael. Jackson certo?

Which is strange because this is very apparently not he. Only the hat is the same, all the rest is different!

He is a head of department, if not the minister himself ... Leg of department

I wonder if this is where John Cleese got the idea

So, people learned about Jack Stanford via Reginaldo Leme, and I learned about Reginaldo Leme via Jack Stanford

It is not wise, however, to downplay Jackson ...

@@Naftalinoff Why do you talk like a bot?

One should not underestimate the "salts" of 100 years ago either

This is the proof, that such ministry did exist back in British Empire!

There was at least one more actor of similar kind in the vaudeville epoch - Ray Bolger

Did exist back in British Empire, as we can see

Sandman!

@@Naftalinoff Wilson and Keppel, Sand Dance. 1934

@@shanemacnee Aha!

Are there videos of him dancing?

So what?

It doesn't say Stan Laurel. Jack Sanford

@@snidelywhiplash6889 several people commented it was Stan Laurel. Looks like Jack, simply astonished at the restored footage. Incredible

Thank you, Captain Obvious!

A good question! His daughter Jill Stanford has a facebook group "Jack Stanford -The Dancing Fool". Maybe one can find more information there

No, this is not Stan Laurel

@@Naftalinoff I thought the same.

This is not to be excluded! There was actually a number of actors with such 'plastique' in 1920s-30s

They are both from the same time. This kind of routine should have come from the vaudeville theater. Unfortunately, we should assume that vast majority of the vaudeville performers of the end of XIX and beginning of the XX century are lost for us. They were not caught on camera, and best what we can know about them are photos, newspapers advertisements and probably short critical reviews.

A number of people mentioned Toto here, but I don't remember seen any videos of him

They both should have been inspired from the characters (trump etc.) common in the beginning of XX century

Stan Laurel was never that ... elastic

Seems to be British