The Black Bottom (1927) 

Many thanks for this information.

Ever appropiating...

Very interesting. The internet can offer interesting information that we otherwise would never know. Thanks.

@@petraroch8510 😏 Yup

@@petraroch8510 ever whining

P.S. My dad was a Colonel in the U S Army.

A lot of 'screen stars' had to wear very strange makeup, to show up on the film correctly, as the film was not very sensitive. They wore black lipstick, and lots of eye makeup or they would have looked washed out. I think a lot of times it was a contrast thing, to show nicely on film on playback.

How could she possibly remember the Roaring 20s if she was born in 1927?

@Terry Never said she could. That is why I said, “she was a baby.”

Your grandmother is too old

everything before the 20s seems like a load of rubbish,, cars helped speed stuff up

Sorry nope sanitized for white audience.

Yes, the original film is silent, and I added a 1920s recording of the music.

No you think?! 🙄

@@StephendelRoser - you did find something that matched, and that's a good record, but oh, to have heard the band seen in the film!

You’re quite right about the music. Aa y suggestions for improving it would be welcome.

It would have been a silent film when originally shown, but the music heard by the audience would have been from musicians on site in the theatre or a recording played on a phonograph.

Glad you've woken up!

Yes, there is a song called "The Varsity Drag" but while the two songs have a similar overall sound, they are quite different.

Not graceful, like a waltz.....

Some Swedish couple dances like the Hambo and Slängpolska can be quite athletic.

OMG! I have searched page after page and NO video of Black people dancing The Black Bottom! Whitewashing anyone?

@@marchall230 it was a segregated country back then. Apparently even in the 30s and 40s if black dancers were in a scene (see hellzapoppin for a fabulous example), the scene would always be written in such a way that it could be edited out when the film was shown in the south.

in france it was danced by black people, of course footages of night life in Paris in the 1920s are VERY SCARCE, war and lack of care destroyed ALL

@@cynicalandrealistic2678 WHAT are you talking about and WHY are you talking to me? FOH!

@@marchall230 oh sorry

The name of the dance is right at the top of the page, and no, it wasn't "stolen". Even in the early 20th century the origin of this dance was known. Enough already with "cultural appropriation" nonsense. The fact that non-blacks enjoyed black creations like jazz, ragtime and dances like the Cake Walk, the Black Bottom the Texas Tommy, and the Twist, benefitted black entertainers, composers and musicians in particular, and the black community as a whole, helping to dispel stereotypes and showing the world that blacks were and are a creative people too. These things in the U.S. became AMERICAN things that all could enjoy, and yes, there is(or was) an "America culture" which all groups contributed too, though today so much emphasis is put on each group celebrating itself (and God help you if you "steal" from that group) that we've lost sight of that. Does it annoy you that blacks also enjoy music, dance and fashion that were created by whites? Is it "stealing" when a black man wears a tuxedo or a black woman plays Bach on the piano? If black music and dance is only supposed to be enjoyed by black people, isn't that a reverse-ghetto way of thinking? Take off those race based glasses and put on a pair of HUMAN ones. "They stole this dance" my foot.

@@gunnarthorsen You are right. I loooooooooooove the Players' Association, an all white-jazz funk outfit and they are BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!! OMG! One of my favorite bands. Never knew they were white as they always had a beautiful Black model on the cover o their LPs and never had a band pix on any of their releases.

They gave credit, though I suspect the original dance didn't look like this.

“Stole” is a rather harsh way of saying it. The dance may have been created by black culture but like most things it morphs into a different dance while maintaining its roots in the original

A small black jazz band is seen playing in the film but the music heard sounds like it is a large white dance orchestra. The music sounds like it was added later to the film. I wish I could hear the music the black jazz band was playing in the film.

Bye, this is fun. Stop hating and being salty.

And tik tok isn’t?

Such a hater

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Pretty sure it's a woman.