Jump Jim Crow - Blackface Song and Dance ikachina 2026-09-22 | Jump Jim Crow - Blackface Song and Dance
Blackface in The Eddie Cantor Story 1953 ikachina 2025-10-12 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowIn The Eddie Cantor Story (1953) Keefe Brasselle depicts a young Eddie Cantor in blackface.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface: Boston Blackie Booked On Suspicion 1945 ikachina 2025-10-05 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowChester Morris and his favorite disguise: BlackfaceRead about blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Billy Crystal in Blackface as Sammy Davis Jr ikachina 2025-09-28 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowBilly Crystal in Blackface as Sammy Davis Jr with Joe Piscopo as Ronald Reagan and Frank Sinatra in SNLS9 episodes E15 and E19Read about blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Bill Hader in Blackface SNL38E18 ikachina 2025-09-21 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowBill Hader wears Blackface for an SNL38E18 sketch called The Al Pacino Accused Murderer Biopic Series. Hader plays an caricature of Al Pacino who will take any role, even if it includes playing a black man, but he has second thoughts and keeps asking the Black judge "Is this OK?"Read about blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface in People are Funny (1946) ikachina 2025-09-14 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowBlackface in People are Funny (1946). The Vagabonds were a comedy group of musicians/singers. Members included Don Germano, Pete Peterson, Till Risso, and Al Torrieri.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface - Bing Crosby in Here Come The Waves 1944 ikachina 2025-09-07 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow Blackface - Bing Crosby sings in Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate the Positive in Here Come The Waves 1944. 14 seconds was all Google's Content ID would allow. Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface: Fred Armisen does Barack Obama on SNL ikachina 2025-08-31 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowFred Armisen does Barack Obama on SNL episodes S32E17, S34E10, S34E14, S34E19.Read about blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Eddie Cantor and Billy Barty in blackface in Roman Scandals (1933) ikachina 2025-08-24 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowEddie Cantor and Billy Barty in blackface in Roman Scandals (1933) sings Keep Young and Beautiful.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.com This clip is posted as Fair use for educational purposes!
Blackface in Hitchcocks Young and Innocent 1937 ikachina 2025-08-17 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowAll the band members are in blackface in this film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Roger Daltrey in Blackface and Drag ikachina 2025-08-10 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowRoger Daltrey in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Living Legend" (S7-E9) plays a killer who wears disguises and dons fake personas, and in this scene he lures his victim in by being a black woman.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.com This clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface: MORAN AND MACK aka Two Black Crows ikachina 2025-08-03 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowTHE TWO BLACK CROWS IN AFRICA -1933- - MORAN AND MACKThe Two Black Crows (also called The Black Crows and Moran and Mack) was a blackface comedy act popular in the 1920s and 1930sRead about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface: Man in Grey (1943) ikachina 2025-07-27 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow Stewart Granger in blackface chokes out Margaret Lockwood as part of a stage play in Man in Grey (1943).Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface - Uncle Toms Cabin 1927 ikachina 2025-07-20 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowIn this 1927 remake of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Topsy (Mona Ray) is in blackface. Mona Ray was 22 years old and still small enough to play a child. This role was always the highlight of her career. 13 years later she played Mammy Yokum in Li'l Abner (1940) and 10 years after that at age 45 she played a stripper in The Art of Burlesque (1950).Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface in This is the Army (1943) ikachina 2025-07-13 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow The 1943 film adaptation of "This Is the Army" by Irving Berlin includes a blackface number, though it was removed from the original stage production. This blackface performance is presented as a nostalgic reference.Includes a brief appearance by Ronald ReaganRead about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Al Jolson in Blackface in Big Boy (1930) ikachina 2025-07-06 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowJolson plays Gus, a stableman who becomes a jockey and wins the Kentucky Derby, despite efforts by gamblers to sabotage him. Jolson sings Liza Lee and Little Sunshine. This was the only time Jolson appeared in a film entirely in blackface, except for the closing scene.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Mary Poppins in Blackface ikachina 2025-06-29 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow It's easy to dismiss the soot-covered faces in Mary Poppins as harmless fun, but doing so overlooks the historical context. The original books associate chimney sweeps’ blackened faces with racial caricature and Disney has a very long history of using minstrel tropes. A common trope in film and television involves characters getting their faces blackened by "soot," which can appear innocuous, but it's always what happens next that matters. In Mary Poppins (1964), Bert refers to the rooftops as "a trackless jungle," and then Mary Poppins intentionally darkens her face further with more powder. Later, Admiral Boom sees the chimney sweeps dancing and exclaims, "We're being attacked by Hottentots! Cheeky devils! Give them what for!" Read about blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Donald OConnor blackface compilation from Mister Big 1943 ikachina 2025-06-22 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowThe Donald O'Connor blackface compilation from Mister Big (1943) only contains 10 second clips because of copyright restrictionsRead about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface and Brownface in Martyrs of the Alamo (1915) ikachina 2025-06-15 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowThis early silent film depicts the defense of the Alamo by 185 Texans against the Mexican army in 1836, and includes both blackface (Bowie's slave) and brownface (Mexican Soldiers).Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Orson Wells in Blackface at 19 - His first film ikachina 2025-06-08 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowThe Hearts of Age 1934 - The Hearts of Age is the first film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eight-minute short, which he co-directed with William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welles' first wife, Virginia Nicholson, as well as Welles himself. He made the film while attending the Todd School for Boys, in Woodstock, Illinois, at the age of 19.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Minstrel Show Blackface Stump Speech ikachina 2025-06-01 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowSlim Williams gives a Minstrel Show Blackface Stump Speech in Yes Sir, Mr Bones (1951). The stump speech was a comic monologue from blackface minstrelsy. A typical stump speech consisted of malapropisms (the substitution of a word for a word with a similar sound), nonsense sentences, and puns delivered in a parodied version of Black Vernacular English. The stump speech was a precursor to modern stand-up comedy.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
James Barton in blackface in After Seben (1927) ikachina 2025-05-25 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowAn early sound short set in a Harlem nightclub, featuring white vaudeville comic James Barton performing in blackface. Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface: David Byrne of Talking Heads interviews himself ikachina 2025-05-18 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowByrne later issued an apology for impersonating people of color, including wearing brownface and blackface, in a 1984 promotional video for the Talking Heads’ iconic concert film “Stop Making Sense.”Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Myrna Loy in Blackface in Ham and Eggs in the Front (1927) ikachina 2025-05-11 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow Myrna Loy in Blackface in Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927). Fifi, (Mryna Loy), a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham, (Tom Wilson), and Eggs, (Heinie Conklin), also in blackface. Myrna Loy later regretted having made a blatantly racist film like this, calling it "shameful".Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Big Shot (1942) Chick Chandler Blackface with Humphrey Bogart ikachina 2025-05-04 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowA blackface performance in prison by Chick Chandler (1905-1988) in Big Shot (1942). Humphrey Bogart operates the spotlight.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.com This clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Soap S3E1 Blackface - John Byner, Robert Mandan and Arthur Petersen ikachina 2025-04-27 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowRobert Mandan, Arthur Petersen and John Byner don Blackface in Soap S3E1. Robert Guillaume also appears.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Boston Blackie in Blackface ikachina 2025-04-20 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowChester Morris (1901-1970) wears blackface in Boston Blackie’s Rendezvous (1945). George E. Stone (1903-1967) also wears blackface. Clarence Muse (1889-1979) plays the hotel porter.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Billy Barty in Blackface with Jimmie JJ Walker. Rabbit Test (1978) ikachina 2025-04-13 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow Billy Barty in Blackface: Rabbit Test (1978) with Billy Crystal and Jimmie JJ Walker. Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface: Bert Williams in Fish (1916) ikachina 2025-04-06 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowBert Williams goes fishing in blackface while his family (also in blackface) chases after him. In 1915, Biograph Company executives hired actor Bert Williams to star, produce, direct, and write his own films.Born Egbert Austin Williams, Bert Williams had been a working actor since starting out in 1893 in minstrels and medicine shows. He was a featured performer at Zeigfield’s Follies for nearly a decade starting in 1909. He also became a recording star for Columbia Records. He never abandoned blacking up, and he played several variations of the long-suffering “Jonah Man” throughout his career.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Joni Mitchell in Blackface and Drag ikachina 2025-03-30 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow Joni Mitchell in Blackface in the short film The Black Cat in The Black Mouse Socks, part of the movie Love (1982), a unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love.Folk music was out of favor by the late 1970s and Joni turned to Jazz music. In trying to be relevant and edgy she took it way too far by donning this black pimp persona called Art Nouveau.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface: At home with James Barton in After Seben (1929) ikachina 2025-03-23 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowAn early sound short set in a Harlem apartment, featuring white vaudeville comic James Barton performing in blackface. Also stars Elaine Arden.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface scene from Jail Bait ikachina 2025-03-16 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowBlackface scene from Jail Bait (1954) starring Cotton Watts and Chick (Kathleen Freeman was Chick Watts early in her career.)Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Joey Lawrence in Blackface in Gimmie-A-Break-S4-E11 ikachina 2025-03-09 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowJoey Lawrence in Blackface in Gimmie-A-Break-S4-E11. Sam uses Joey (Joey Lawrence) to get back at Nell (Nell Carter) by dressing him up in Blackface to sing in Nell's church.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface Minstrel Show from Mississippi Showboats 1933 ikachina 2025-03-02 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowBlackface Minstrel Show from MAGIC CARPET OF MOVIETONE / MISSISSIPPI SHOWBOATS 1933Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest in blackface on SNL ikachina 2025-02-23 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowBilly Crystal and Christopher Guest in blackface on Saturday Night Live S10E2 in a bit about Negro League ball players.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Al Jolson applies Blackface backstage in Jazz Singer ikachina 2025-02-16 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow Al Jolson applies Blackface makeup while talking to his girlfriend in The Jazz Singer (1927)Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface: Vaudeville Comic James Barton Dancing ikachina 2025-02-09 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowAn early sound short called After Seben (1929), featuring white vaudeville comic James Barton dancing in blackface in a Harlem nightclub. Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Jack Black in Blackface as Fats Waller ikachina 2025-02-02 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowJack Black appears in Blackface as Fats Waller in Be Kind Rewind (2008). Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Bert Williams pantomimes in Blackface in A Natural Born Gambler ikachina 2025-01-26 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowBert Williams (1874-1922) pantomimes a card game in Blackface in A Natural Born Gambler (1916). Bert Williams was the first Black superstar of popular entertainment. He began his career in medicine shows and Vaudeville, eventually becoming the first Black artist to sign a contract that granted him the rights to produce and direct his own films. Williams's portrayal of a "coon" stereotype was different. He brought a level of sophistication and nuance to the roles he played that was not typical for characters of that kind, highlighting the absurdity of the stereotypes while showcasing his great talent as a performer.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Grace Slick in Blackface on Smothers Brothers ikachina 2025-01-19 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowDuring a 1968 appearance of Jefferson Airplane, lead singer Grace Slick wore blackface to perform the song ‘Crown of Creation’ on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. At the time, the band said that Slick performed in blackface as a sign of solidarity with Angela Davis or the Black Power movement. Later, Grace Slick told an interviewer why, “If you listen to the words of ‘Crown of Creation,’ think about a spade singing it. It makes a lot of sense.” A month later, Slick appeared on the cover of Teenset magazine in blackface. Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
James Barton in Blackface sings Waitin for the Evening Mail in After Seben (1929) ikachina 2025-01-12 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow James Barton in Blackface as Elias Napoleon Nightingale sings "Waitin' for the Evening Mail" in After Seben (1929).An early sound short set in a Harlem nightclub, featuring white vaudeville comic James Barton performing in blackface. Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Al Jolson in Blackface in Wonderbar (1934) ikachina 2025-01-05 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowAl Jolson enters Heaven in Blackface in Wonderbar (1934)Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface Minstrel Show Scenes from My Wild Irish Rose (1947) ikachina 2024-12-29 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow Blackface Minstrel Show Scenes from My Wild Irish Rose (1947). Dennis Morgan plays the real-life musician Chauncey Olcott, who wrote (among other things) the famous song, “My Wild Irish Rose. In this clip, Dennis Morgan dons blackface to perform as Chauncey Olcott in Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Howard Stern in Blackface ikachina 2024-12-22 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow Howard Stern in blackface with Sherman Hemsley in drag. This 1994 sketch was intended to parody the remarks Ted Danson made in blackface at a Friars Club roast of Whoopi Goldberg earlier in 1993.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface: Blue Monday Blues from Rhapsody in Blue - 1945 ikachina 2024-12-15 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshow Blackface: Blue Monday Blues from Rhapsody in Blue - 1945. Music by George Gershwin. Performed by Anne Brown, Harry Stockwell, Dante DiPaolo (dubbed by John B. Hughes) and ensembleRead about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Brownface - Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E03 ikachina 2024-12-08 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E03 America's Next Top Paddy's Billboard Model ContestKaitlin Olson aka Dee Reynolds is the Hispanic activist Martina Martinez in Brownface Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface Minstrel Show scenes from Sierra Passage (1950) ikachina 2024-12-01 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowBlackface Minstrel Show scenes from Sierra Passage (1950). Stars Wayne Morris as Johnny Yorka, Alan Hale as Yance Carter and Lloyd Corrigan as Thaddeus 'Thad' Kring.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Robert Downey Jr in Blackface in Tropic Thunder (2008) ikachina 2024-11-24 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowRobert Downey Jr in Blackface in Tropic Thunder (2008). Downey's use of Blackface as a parody of self-important white actors was not controversial and he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Tropic Thunder is the best example of blackface that is not considered harmful by most people. However, it is still blackface, when defined as a white person putting on makeup and depicting stereotypical mannerisms and speech of a black person.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Dennis Morgan and Jane Wyatt in Blackface ikachina 2024-11-17 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowA shower for Dennis Morgan and Jane Wyatt ends in Blackface in Kisses for Breakfast 1941. Note that Morgan starts singing an Old Negro Spiritual before the water turns black and also Lee Patrick's comment, "On you, it looks good."Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Dan Dailey in Blackface in Youre My Everything (1949) ikachina 2024-11-10 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowDan Dailey in Blackface - playing an Uncle Tom - in You're My Everything (1949).Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Blackface - Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia - S09E09 ikachina 2024-11-03 | #blackface #racism #minstrelshowIts Always Sunny in Philadelphia S09E09 The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6Rob McElhenney aka Mac plays Danny Glover's character, Murtaugh in BlackfaceKaitlin Olson aka Dee Reynolds is the bride in blackface and the Hispanic activist Martina Martinez in Brownface.Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.comThis clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
