57404 " COMES THE REVOLUTION! " 1941 WILLIE HOWARD VAUDEVILLE SKIT
This short film "Comes the Revolution" dates to 1941. Here, an Eastern European immigrant and soapbox rabble-rouser (Willie Howard) contends with an unruly audience of one (Al Kelly). In a faux accent, Willie exhorts "the workers" to "throw off the yoke of oppression" while his heckler interrupts him. It's essentially a brief vaudeville routine captured for posterity. The star of this was "Borscht-Belt" actor Willie Howard, a noted "dialect" comic whose accent would have been familiar to a generation of Americans who came from Poland, Germany, Russia or Eastern Europe. In short, the routine was targeted primarily at urban Jewish audiences. Howard was fairly well known in Hollywood, appearing in The Smart Way (1937), How to Go to a French Restaurant (1941) and Playboy Number One (1937). <p><p>Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below.<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com