102 y/o Dancer Sees Herself on Film for the First Time

I am so excited there's this guy named Mark who collects all these old soundies and he said you were listed in in the documents as miss Baker is that did that happen commonly we have three of these they're both all cooking Brown that's you right so were these were these shot in a real Club or was it like [Music] you have any memory of how many of these you dead or just so many of them that fleurs [Music] right now yeah [Music] someone said they thought your nickname was Chicken Little was that your choice or that just landed on you I thought it was just because you were skinnier so someone sent me this picture that's you yeah you like to see it again I love that don't even think so for how many years did you dance [Applause] well I finally believe you well honey how did it feel seeing yourself seeing you perform live in your younger days it's so essential on and we have more movies one by Edna Mae Harris you don't dance in that but you're sitting out like a lunch counter and showing off your legs I don't know if you're scandalized to see that again [Music] yes she must be in there I think so right just hard to anyone but that [Music] that's what oh my god I'm afraid for anyone to fall off of there be ride a leggy ride it can't be right if it's got a creep get it can't be right it can't myself I'm being paid to do something that I enjoy doing and I would do it for free so he just felt so good doing it but that music yeah I just can't really write in it yeah she was getting ready to bathe me and the car was very she ain't got some guiding something and she went back in the house to get it and when she came I was gone and I was down there naked and I can see me you see yourself and then it was not playing and I took it I mean I got to get your autograph one of these days on that pray all right take care so good to see you nice meeting you girls bye-bye mwah

Channel: Tenfresh

Views: 33,984,697

Rating: 4.9618917 out of 5

Keywords: Harlem Renaissance (Literary School Or Movement), The Apollo (Building), Jazz Age (Event), Harlem (Neighborhood), Dance (Interest), Dance History, Jazz History

Id: bktozJWbLQg

Length: 7min 29sec (449 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 20 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/CorpPhoenix]

I'm 29 and looking at pictures or video material of me from just 10-15 years ago already feels weird and like a "blast from the past" sometimes. I can't even imagine how it must feel after 85 years.

[u/suppow]

Filmed in the fall of 2014
...
Alice is still alive and well

FUCK YEAH BABY!

[u/JJ211]

in 70 years it's going to be "100 year old youtuber watches his past videos of him commentating on the new call of duty trailer"

[u/LajGig]

No disrespect, she was a babe.

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[u/Wobbly_Centuar]

Oh wow, this got me emotional.

I love that little old lady.

[u/escapereality428]

If I live to be 102 all I will have to show for it is a bunch of shitty Reddit posts with 1-2 downvotes each.

Edit: I love all of you. I can die happy now.

[u/antihexe]

Intellectually I understand what I'm watching and can see, oh, that was 75 years ago. But the juxtaposition of her 102 year old self and her youthful and vital self is so strange. I'm not afraid of death and growing old, but there's something unsettling to me about the way we waste away and become dry and brittle -- on the verge of snapping. But deep inside her memory she can probably remember some of those moments of vivid vitality. Maybe we're all just as easily broken when we're younger but we don't notice it.

Either way, thanks for sharing this. It's a damn good little wormhole between the past and the present.

[u/icybluetears]

Please tell me you left her videos to watch whenever she wants. And some sweet music for her to listen too.