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  [Vanishing Act – 4 Steps & Jay Manskell on TV]

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  0:10 Color bars.  1:20 Camera opens on a a Vaudeville performance in Chicago. Jay Manskell opens the show singing. He introduces the show, and another man comes on stage.  7:34 Cut to a performance by Roberta Peters. She sings opera.  11:55 Manskell talks to Peters about her performance. They sing together. Another man comes on stage and the three of them sing briefly.  19:00 Manskell and Peters leave the stage, and the man does a comedy routine. 26:37 He does […]

• [Vanishing Act raw: Kraft Music Hall]

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  Raw footage shot for Will Clinger’s documentary “Vanishing Act: The Vaudeville Era in Chicago.”

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  [From Beta 3 – Fern Dale Interview]

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  [Continuation of tape 17303]. 0:27 Tape starts. Will Clinger interviews Fern Dale about her days in Vaudeville. She describes her act. He asks what she misses about Vaudeville, and she replies that she misses the glamour, the people, and the theaters.  3:00 They change the camera angle, and Clinger records some of the questions he has already asked her. 5:50 From the same angle, Clinger asks her to explain the history of the pin she’s wearing. She said that it […]

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  [Vanishing Act: From Beta 2 – Fern Dale Interview]

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  [Continuation of tape 17302]. 0:07 Color bars. Audio starts. Camera opens on Fern Dale preparing to play banjo. Will Clinger asks her about the instrument, and she tells the history of it.  1:50 Dale plays and sings a song with a trumpeter and a tuba player.  4:07 She introduces the men she is playing with. They play another song. 6:00 Cut back to footage from of Clinger interviewing her. Dale talks about some of the big stars she worked with, and […]

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  [Vanishing Act: From Beta 1 – Fern Dale Interview]

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  0:08 Color bars. Audio starts. 0:37 Video begins. Will Clinger interviews Fern Dale about Vaudeville. He asks her to describe her act. She says that she was 14 when she began performing in Vaudeville, after performing in ‘Kiddie Reviews’ at 8 years old. She talks about her first circuit, and the changes in her life when she started performing. She talks about the music and her first acts. 4:30 She talks about some of the performance tricks she learned on […]

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  Comedy Chicago: “Second City Etc”

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  Episode of Comedy Chicago focusing on Second City Etc, featuring several performers from the early 1990s.

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  [Big City Broadcast Demo with Will Clinger]

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  0:21 Color bars. “Big City Broadcast” info screen.  1:00 “Big City Broadcast” introduction. Host Paul Barrosse plays practical jokes on people on the streets of Chicago, asking them to read fake news broadcasts. 4:36 Commercial break. Show returns. Chicago citizens sing famous songs with their voices affected by helium.  6:20 Will Clinger pranks couples getting their marriage licenses.  9:05 Voice dubbing over people around the city. Commercial break.  10:45 Barrosse dresses up random people from the street in rock n’ […]

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  [Comedy Chicago, Batteries Not Included, Improv Institute]

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  Comedy Chicago episode focusing on Batteries Not Included and The Improv Institute.