maybe that is racist,..but you did’nt seem to notice black people completely dominating at dance…again racist..try thinking for yourself..I already have mtv and the media..ha-ha
you gotta love people for their differneces or pretend not to notice…otherwise racism is all thats left excepting pointing out only white racism…the most racist of all…you
by mej
how is loving someone’s race for their differences any less racist than hating someone’s race for their differences?
by rachel
are you kidding?!!! there are so many amazing black ballet dancers. where are you looking?
The rebuttal called racist because it wasn’t pro-black but in fact favors the Russian’s Indian’s, and yes the Chinese over Western Caucasians. Now had the respondent said Two stepping, or square dancing, discussed modern dance which is oft dominated by white females then maybe a case could be made for the racist wishing to make it about skin instead of skill.
how the hell do they keep time while flying through the air, they time their landings to perfections, they weren’t eunuchs were they:)because when they landed doing the splits that looked mighty uncomfortable……
It was filmed in 1945, as I recall. I’m guessing “shopping” wasn’t around back then. They filmed these things live, so you only had one chance to get it right. Even more credit to the amazing performance of the Nicholas Brothers and all the other dancers from that era.
If certain people would actually look it up instead of always saying its shopped.. we wouldnt have these problems. Besides, my grandmother has this on vhs still
Where the hell do you see ghetto stomping? If it’s in there, these boys invented it. Not everything we have today comes from this generation. We build off of things.
Oh my god. How in the good christ did you ever figure that out? That’s in-friggin’-credible. The original blew my mind, and then this re-blew the wreckage. You seriously just justified the entire existence of the internet.
Holy Crap… you are right. That works a little too well I would say. Don’t know where I am going with that but definitely enjoy this dance and this parody of sorts.
in addition to the argument against this being shopped…
these types of film were not edited through the use of computer technology back in those days… editors work on the actual film reel when editing
this is amazing deal with it… just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean its not possible
What African American EVER got anything that was fair; especially at that time-they were USED plain and simple and this is from an educated white woman.
Don’t know their own king’s sold them into slavery, taking all they had before Lincoln and the Republican’s freed them. Before Dr. King, a Republican drummed up the support for the Republican’s to again stare down the Democrat KKK and pass historic civil rights laws that included the right to vote and right to the same schools and minimum wage etc.. And that from someone with an unbiased education based on history and not political doctrine.
Note History grounded in fact shows it was the Republicans who fought for liberation and later equal rights and won against democrats who sought to use terrorist tactics under white hoods founding the KKK. The modern liberal though tries to make minorities believe Republicans are racist because we oppose special rights and payback legislation, welfare etc… but are still champions of equality, the same education, rules, and opportunity for all as equals.
Politics have changed a lot since then. Republican and Democratic policies are both very different from back then. Modern politicians were not the politicians of the 1860’s. Just saying, just because someone calls themself by a certain party, doesn’t mean they follow all the beliefs of that party.
I’m afraid Ben is correct. It is ludicrous to think this is anything but Photoshopped. You doubters have clearly never seen The Matrix otherwise you’d know what was possible with a hard drive these days.
For a start both of those women would have sustained serious injury to the tinter if they’d actually landed those leaping splays.
You could be right about that- their hands do look a little on the large size. Although this only confirms the charlatanry. Repeated impacts of that nature would result in a fractured barse at the very least.
hahahhaha shopped, people need to understand that anyone who says that anymore is clearly making fun of all the deuchbags who would ruin perfectly good fun with a statement like that, don’t take it too seriously lol
but this is just amazing, hit every note that band played with their feet!
The shopped comment was so someone being silly, it’s fine, I understood.
It is a brilliant dance number, but any man that can do the splits scares me… landing in the splits like that… well does anyone know if they procreated, I can’t imagine so…
@Foreals - Dunno if you noticed, but these guy aren’t ‘crackers’. Maybe you should look at that again and rethink whatever it was that was going through your mind.
That aside, to see that redone today with this ages’ twist to it could possibly be awesome.
Amazing precision between the dancers and the band. Too bad talent like this comes so rarely.
Side note: does anyone else get a little worried about the state of the world when people fall for such obvious trolling all the time? That kind of gullibility can lead to all kinds of uh-oh.
I saw this film a long time before “shop” of any kind was available. Believe me, it was real, no blue screens or cgi. These cats could dance and were in demand for any musical of the 30’s and 40’s whether all black or all white. Search Youtube for a bunch of other films they were in and even more incredible dancing. They appeared on many TV variety shows in the 50’s, including Ed Sullivan’s show.
Truly amazing how the young people will disbelieve anything that seems out-of-the-ordinary and just throw around the phrase “that was shopped”. Sad…just sad. I understand where it comes from though, as there is a lot of ’shopping’ going on out there. However, all you really have to do is a little research before you start insulting or dismissing someone’s talent/hard work by calling it ’shopped’.
Keep feeding the trolls.
“The offensively clueless have a special place in our hearts - as objects of ridicule. We don’t like you, but we do love you.”
@Roohan, we are the forgotten generation that appreciated this kind of performing. It hasn’t been passed on to the young people like it was passed on to us. Sad. they are missing so much.
I agree with Roohan.
This was amazing.
I much rather live in those times where photoshop wasn’t invented, music didn’t suck, and people didn’t suck as much.
Everyone who is getting pissed at the guy who said this was shopped is an idiot and you all got owned. You think someone really suspects a movie to be shopped?? That was good trolling there
Of course it is shopped you a**hats, in them days they could barely walk let alone dance like that. Learn some history guys before making yourselves looks so dam dum!
Ok. All you folks who *think* this was “shopped”, why not give us a blow by blow on how this rasterized VIDEO was done in Photoshop. (well if you had no life, and you cry the call of IT WAS SHOPPED when folks < 30 and never really worked in a real job using Photoshop in a production environment.)
Ever heard of After Effects? And even then, why would anyone have time to do that, unless a producer offered a substantial money to do it because… ????
Great footwork. A piece of the music reminded me of the beginning to the fortress levels in the old mario games. I wish I could do leap frog splits.. -_-
This clip was AMAZING, no argument there, but we do have *dancers* these days, guys, and they’ve built on this greatness. Ever seen Burn the Floor, a filmed dance concert? Incredible.
People act like great tap dancing only existed back then, and I really don’t know why.
That was incredible, truly incredible. They just don’t troll like that anymore. It brings tears to my eyes to see such amazing trolling talent from past masters…
This is not ’shopped’, how can you people be so retarded? They didn’t even have photoshop back then! My Grandmother watched this movie with me all the time, and you idiots just don’t understand that some unbelievable things are real! Get a life, seriously. Do you ever even leave your basements?
Next question, who thought that I seriously believed that Ben thought this was shopped? Lesson of the day: DON’T FEED THE TROLL FEEDERS.
obviously you guys don’t know whats going on here.
this video was made back then, taken to the future, photoshopped, and then brought back.
seriously people, stop being retards
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holy Jesus Christ that was amazing.
GEEZ! That was AMAZING!
Why do black people COMPLETELY dominate at dancing?!
I’m showing this to everyone I know immediately.
I agree that Black people dominate at tap, but I’m guess you haven’t seen them doing any ballet.
racist hahah!
observations are not racist
maybe that is racist,..but you did’nt seem to notice black people completely dominating at dance…again racist..try thinking for yourself..I already have mtv and the media..ha-ha
you gotta love people for their differneces or pretend not to notice…otherwise racism is all thats left excepting pointing out only white racism…the most racist of all…you
how is loving someone’s race for their differences any less racist than hating someone’s race for their differences?
are you kidding?!!! there are so many amazing black ballet dancers. where are you looking?
- Janet Collins
- Katherine Dunham
- Raven Wilkinson
- Aesha Ash (NYCB)
- Tai Jimenez (Dance Theatre of Harlem)
- Misty Copeland (Boston Ballet)
- Lauren Anderson (Houston Ballet)
- Alicia Graf (with Alvin Ailey)
- Cleopatra Williams (single black corps dancer)
- Desmond Richardson
just to name a few.
Just to name a FEW, yes!!!
I love to see people winning arguments with facts!!! nice work!
I have seen dozens and dozens of black ballet dancers in my lifetime, for god’s sake.
What bigotry.
Racist and stupid.
The rebuttal called racist because it wasn’t pro-black but in fact favors the Russian’s Indian’s, and yes the Chinese over Western Caucasians. Now had the respondent said Two stepping, or square dancing, discussed modern dance which is oft dominated by white females then maybe a case could be made for the racist wishing to make it about skin instead of skill.
Russians and Indians don’t have an apostrophe. Grammar fail.
actually we are very prominent in ballet, most famously Alvin Ailey dancers are commonly black
Lauren Anderson
For ballet, try the world famous harlem dance academy and the detroit windsors dance academy. both have and still do major ballet events
there are several African ballet dancers. =)
I’ve seen plenty of talented black ballerinas. I hope you’ll have the opportunity to very soon as well.
how do you know they’re black?
Did they both like it?
because they know they have huge wangs
You saw the down the staircase part and still believe blacks have huge wangs?
The real racist statement!
I never knew anyone who could do that many consecutive splits….they were amazing!
omg that was beyond amazing..
Brilliant
Just shows how sh*tty modern films are!
and modern dancing; mtv get off the air!
how the hell do they keep time while flying through the air, they time their landings to perfections, they weren’t eunuchs were they:)because when they landed doing the splits that looked mighty uncomfortable……
pop culture films are s*** these days.
Go to agree with Fred. That is the best dance scene I have ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot.
that was totally shopped
your brain was shopped - Wal-Mart
how was that shopped??? it’s called tap dancing, it takes a lot of choreographing and practice but it can be done.
successful troll is successful…
ben you’re my new hero
all hail ben, king of the successful trolls!
ben FTW!
I doubt it. People in the old days could do cool things too.
It was filmed in 1945, as I recall. I’m guessing “shopping” wasn’t around back then. They filmed these things live, so you only had one chance to get it right. Even more credit to the amazing performance of the Nicholas Brothers and all the other dancers from that era.
You even got Jesus to respond!
I’d like to see someone top that! No time soon.
Any routine with leapfrogging splits is a damn good routine in my book.
Agreed.
WOW Amazing footwork those were the days
Really ben?
I agree with Ben I can tell by the pixels.
which pixels? you cant photoshop film unless some one painted the whole thing frame by frame.
trolled again
Whoever says this is shopped are complete idiots. This is a scene from the movie Stormy Weather with Cab Calloway and Nicholas Brothers.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7166448883120539209#
Stiffy….It was a joke.
I’m still pretty sure it’s shopped–you need more credible sources.
If certain people would actually look it up instead of always saying its shopped.. we wouldnt have these problems. Besides, my grandmother has this on vhs still
They used to shop VHS tapes too, before the interwebs. Look it up.
if the dancing movies put out by the movie industry today were that awesome then we would have a lot less “ghetto stomping”
Where the hell do you see ghetto stomping? If it’s in there, these boys invented it. Not everything we have today comes from this generation. We build off of things.
she means the dancing we use today isn’t very good and that we should learn from our older generations. she wasn’t dissing these men.
That….was amazing! Truly great.
This goes along great with “start me up” by the Rolling Stones! Try it out.
YOU ARE MY HERO.
I love you.
Dude, were you also the one that discovered the Wizard of Oz/DSOTM thing? You’re amazing.
Oh my god. How in the good christ did you ever figure that out? That’s in-friggin’-credible. The original blew my mind, and then this re-blew the wreckage. You seriously just justified the entire existence of the internet.
Holy Crap… you are right. That works a little too well I would say. Don’t know where I am going with that but definitely enjoy this dance and this parody of sorts.
I think the ‘ghetto stomping’ is shopped. lol This dancing requires skill, precision, and practice. No sell-out mainstream modern day bulls*** here
Mind. Blown.
I don’t think I’ll see a dance number like that again in my life. Unless I replay this video.
Aaaaaahhh!!!!!! Amazing!!!
in addition to the argument against this being shopped…
these types of film were not edited through the use of computer technology back in those days… editors work on the actual film reel when editing
this is amazing deal with it… just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean its not possible
He said it was shopped to get a reaction out of people. he knows its not shopped now stop arguing about it lol it was a joke
Wow…. just wow…. that blew my mind, I don’t think I can ever look at dance the same way again
We think they are still awesome after all these years. Wonder if they got paid a decent salary, and what happened to them in later years…
What African American EVER got anything that was fair; especially at that time-they were USED plain and simple and this is from an educated white woman.
not that educated, apparently
Don’t know their own king’s sold them into slavery, taking all they had before Lincoln and the Republican’s freed them. Before Dr. King, a Republican drummed up the support for the Republican’s to again stare down the Democrat KKK and pass historic civil rights laws that included the right to vote and right to the same schools and minimum wage etc.. And that from someone with an unbiased education based on history and not political doctrine.
Note History grounded in fact shows it was the Republicans who fought for liberation and later equal rights and won against democrats who sought to use terrorist tactics under white hoods founding the KKK. The modern liberal though tries to make minorities believe Republicans are racist because we oppose special rights and payback legislation, welfare etc… but are still champions of equality, the same education, rules, and opportunity for all as equals.
Politics have changed a lot since then. Republican and Democratic policies are both very different from back then. Modern politicians were not the politicians of the 1860’s. Just saying, just because someone calls themself by a certain party, doesn’t mean they follow all the beliefs of that party.
don’t feed the trolls!
also, nice trolling guys.
also, that was absolutely spectacular. I’m stunned.
that was absolutely amazing.
Amazing ty
haha, people bite too easily, pretty sure the guy who said it was “shopped” was kidding. Get a sense of humour.
Awesome routine.
My favorite dance number…followed by such an effective and powerful trolling thanks to a few graciously gullible commenters…
today was a good day.
Brilliant!! They just don’t make them like this anymore.
that was incredible!
I’m afraid Ben is correct. It is ludicrous to think this is anything but Photoshopped. You doubters have clearly never seen The Matrix otherwise you’d know what was possible with a hard drive these days.
For a start both of those women would have sustained serious injury to the tinter if they’d actually landed those leaping splays.
just a little fyi… those are MEN
You could be right about that- their hands do look a little on the large size. Although this only confirms the charlatanry. Repeated impacts of that nature would result in a fractured barse at the very least.
clearly you have no idea that they don’t use photoshop for those types of effects.
The term was intended euphemistically. MS Paint was likely the prevalent industry tool at the time.
here’s a link to their site, one brother has passed on, the other is still going it seems:
http://www.nicholasbrothers.com/index.htm
It’s funny to see people fall for such obvious trolls. Derp this isn’t shopped derp derp.
yeah, if you look at the pixels near their crotches when they are landing the splits you can tell it was shopped to look like such.
Um love, they didn’t know how to shop then.
dude, people shopped all the time. haven’t you ever heard of bloomingdale’s? damn, me neither
pixels= lower quality video than we have now.
obviously there are pixels from transferring such old film to computer.
back then there was actually talent involved in television
Wow!!!!! Is this the inspiration of the Cotton Club movie with Richard Gere, Diane Lane?
I always loved that, it never gets old.
in love
hahahhaha shopped, people need to understand that anyone who says that anymore is clearly making fun of all the deuchbags who would ruin perfectly good fun with a statement like that, don’t take it too seriously lol
but this is just amazing, hit every note that band played with their feet!
The shopped comment was so someone being silly, it’s fine, I understood.
It is a brilliant dance number, but any man that can do the splits scares me… landing in the splits like that… well does anyone know if they procreated, I can’t imagine so…
I bet they procreated all the time dancing like that
Crazy good.
Hahaha. God people need to not be retarded and notice a troll.
Anyone that hates on modern “ghetto stomping” is racist and can’t appreciate a different cultures dancing style. Only white bread cracker tap
this is also high-quality trolling, too bad the shopped guy got all the attention
that’s skill and talent rolled into one damn good performance.
@Foreals - Dunno if you noticed, but these guy aren’t ‘crackers’. Maybe you should look at that again and rethink whatever it was that was going through your mind.
That aside, to see that redone today with this ages’ twist to it could possibly be awesome.
Or absolutely horrid.
photoshopped. totally.
it’s always funny to see someone write shopped. almost every time i see someone respond who isn’t in on the joke
what joke? is it common knowledge that this is fake then?
Amazing precision between the dancers and the band. Too bad talent like this comes so rarely.
Side note: does anyone else get a little worried about the state of the world when people fall for such obvious trolling all the time? That kind of gullibility can lead to all kinds of uh-oh.
did anyone else hear the mario underground theme at 1:20?
YES, I’m so glad someone else noticed that!
I saw this film a long time before “shop” of any kind was available. Believe me, it was real, no blue screens or cgi. These cats could dance and were in demand for any musical of the 30’s and 40’s whether all black or all white. Search Youtube for a bunch of other films they were in and even more incredible dancing. They appeared on many TV variety shows in the 50’s, including Ed Sullivan’s show.
Best comment I’ve seen. While you are at it, look up the Daft Punk Dancing from that era. All they do these days is flop around. Amazing footwork.
…that was @bawdybill…
Bravo to the Nicholas Brothers. It seems odd now that the audience should be so predominantly nonwhite for such a universal display of talented energy
what does black or white have to do with it? you people are so racist. i love lamp
Warning: every dance number seen after this will vastly disappoint you.
Jesus christ that was sick good
Truly amazing how the young people will disbelieve anything that seems out-of-the-ordinary and just throw around the phrase “that was shopped”. Sad…just sad. I understand where it comes from though, as there is a lot of ’shopping’ going on out there. However, all you really have to do is a little research before you start insulting or dismissing someone’s talent/hard work by calling it ’shopped’.
Keep feeding the trolls.
“The offensively clueless have a special place in our hearts - as objects of ridicule. We don’t like you, but we do love you.”
@Roohan, we are the forgotten generation that appreciated this kind of performing. It hasn’t been passed on to the young people like it was passed on to us. Sad. they are missing so much.
I agree with Roohan.
This was amazing.
I much rather live in those times where photoshop wasn’t invented, music didn’t suck, and people didn’t suck as much.
Everyone who is getting pissed at the guy who said this was shopped is an idiot and you all got owned. You think someone really suspects a movie to be shopped?? That was good trolling there
Sweet fancy moses I have rarely seen such stupidity in comments, especially Roohan.
I don’t know what’s better, the dance video or all the fail trolling. Lul.
Of course it is shopped you a**hats, in them days they could barely walk let alone dance like that. Learn some history guys before making yourselves looks so dam dum!
Ok. All you folks who *think* this was “shopped”, why not give us a blow by blow on how this rasterized VIDEO was done in Photoshop. (well if you had no life, and you cry the call of IT WAS SHOPPED when folks < 30 and never really worked in a real job using Photoshop in a production environment.)
Ever heard of After Effects? And even then, why would anyone have time to do that, unless a producer offered a substantial money to do it because… ????
Great footwork. A piece of the music reminded me of the beginning to the fortress levels in the old mario games. I wish I could do leap frog splits.. -_-
This clip was AMAZING, no argument there, but we do have *dancers* these days, guys, and they’ve built on this greatness. Ever seen Burn the Floor, a filmed dance concert? Incredible.
People act like great tap dancing only existed back then, and I really don’t know why.
Looks like it still is the best dance number ever filmed…..how amazing!!!
Comments are better than the vid
That was incredible, truly incredible. They just don’t troll like that anymore. It brings tears to my eyes to see such amazing trolling talent from past masters…
HaHaHa!! These comments are HILARIOUS!! I was SOO much more engrossed in the comments than the vid. Good stuff guys.
WOW. Amazing!
This is not ’shopped’, how can you people be so retarded? They didn’t even have photoshop back then! My Grandmother watched this movie with me all the time, and you idiots just don’t understand that some unbelievable things are real! Get a life, seriously. Do you ever even leave your basements?
Next question, who thought that I seriously believed that Ben thought this was shopped? Lesson of the day: DON’T FEED THE TROLL FEEDERS.
Also, cool dance.
RubberSquid, your the feeding the troll, literally.
comments better than video
Crackin’ dance routine indeed. And of COURSE it wasn’t Photoshopped. It was Videoshopped. I mean, hello.
obviously you guys don’t know whats going on here.
this video was made back then, taken to the future, photoshopped, and then brought back.
seriously people, stop being retards
=3
Get a life and enjoy what you see. The only one beening a retards is you.
the charleston is exponentially cooler. especially with daft punk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339ixMtHrVk
dude at the beginning is totally the guy who does “minnie the moocher” in the blues brothers
a man by the name of cab calloway. master scat man
and you can tell by the pixels. and seeing quite a few shoops in my time.
f*** sakes people, lrn2intrntz
Do they even have bones in their legs?
And some of you spend way too much time here. Get a life.
Wow. And with very few cuts that I could see.