Oldest Cake Walk Film Footage - 1898!!!

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The Earliest Cake Walk Film Footage Ever - 1898!!!

Old Jasper's Cake Walk (1899)
Composed by Saint Suttle (February 1870 – February 4, 1932)

This video shows a groundbreaking film made by the William Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1898 featuring the popular Black vaudeville & minstrel group of the day "The Ragtime Four"
which included - Gertie Brown, Saint Suttle, Maud Brewer, J. W. Brewer.

Special thanks to: Allyson Nadia Field associate professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago and Avery LaFlamme PhD in Cinema and Media.

This clip is an excerpt from a live performance for The Southside Home Movie Project's episode #19 "Rhythm & Love" at Logan Center for the Arts
Oct. 14, 2023.
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