1930s chain gang prisoners singing and dancing
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Prisoners, chain gang, African American, black prisoners.
10:42:25 Black, African American prisoner in striped uniform sits outside, signs song 'she's in the jailhouse now and I'm in the chain gang now'.
10:43:08 EXT prison, prisoners in striped uniforms and ankle bracelets, chain gang out of caravan, white and black men, they carry spades over their shoulders, hard labour. Men dig and sing a bluesy song.
10:43:50 Two prisoners put little man into barrel. Black prisoner working. Chain gang get back into van, they count down, take their hats off, mainly black men.
10:44:43 White prisoner tap dancing in his chains, MCU prisoner's face he looks very serious about the tap dancing, concentrating.
10:45:13
I immediately thought of the movie "Life"
Martin Lawrence and the pie classic lol
Not me... I immediately thought of how many of those black men actually innocent!
@@lizzypooh3536 same thing. In the movie they were innocent as well
Me 2
@@lizzypooh3536 damn shame 🤦♂️
They paid their dues Lord
I know that all gotta be in Heaven now.
In the early 30s, a movie called I'm A Fugitive From A Chain Gang starring Paul Muni came out, he portrayed a real person named Robert Burns who endured brutality in the chain gang in Georgia and he wrote about it and the movie was made in it. When the movie came out, it was a huge hit and shine a light on how bad chain gangs was. I think this footage was made to show the "chain gangs" weren't so bad. But the movie helped in bringing an end to chain gangs!
ThatsBlackNostalgia well chain gangs were brought back in 1995...
That was a great movie. I have watched it several times.
If they’re guilty, I couldn’t care less, but the only problem back then was a lot of prisoners were railroaded on trumped up charges and didn’t get an adequate defense.
This footage is not from that movie.
@@global-awarenessnetwork5315
He didn’t say it was. He’s contrasting the movie to this video.
I'm getting an panic attack just at the idea of having to live in one of those steel rail cars in the hot sun with 14 other guys all jammed in.
Kinda seems like a slave ship, doesn't it?
Formidable Foe
Yeah, this is super sad but it’s what they deserve!
Ikd, It’s random content! Oh yeah, and at night they wrap the whole car in wet canvas. A little humidity never hurt anyone, right?
gplito
Right, but really, they do that? Imagine how everything would smell.
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I'm sorry, but I could not watch this after the opening "the irrepressible happiness of the prisoners"...GTFOH!! When I was a kid, we moved to the south for a while, and I remember seeing chain gangs for the first time - even back then I thought it was inhuman.....and nobody looked happy...
hey, didja ever figure that some of them are getting what they deserve?
Double Ghod You’re an actual legitimate idiot.
@@celesteburnett3769 no you're just a woman
You don't know what you're talking about that's why women used to be encouraged to let men handle these matters your best suited as a mother and a few other professions
Double Ghod Your comment is just.. stupid and hurtful. You have no clue what you are talking about.
Flying Nazgûl Come and be racist/ sexist to my face.
1930's rap music
coporal4 yep
Shut up clown
It's called the Blues
Definitely
Real hip hop it's been here
+john battles I was thing that too
Krs 1 lol i guess this is the real hip hop
Facts been here
his song is crazy "i was surely out last friday, met a girl by the name of loddy, we go in a cabfare and sits down, she was beginning to call me honey, i begin to spend my money, i thought she was the smartest girl in town. when i began to (offer?) whisky, loddy, she got frisky, like women full of whiskey generally does, now when i went to pay the man i found loddys hand right in my pocket where my money was, she's in the jail house now, and im in the chain gang now, i told the judge to his face loddys hand was out of place, she's in the jail house now"
when i began to order/ordering whiskey is the lyrics you missing 👍🏾
@Ronaldo thank you!
@@Ronaldo-rt7hl he was snapping 🔥
Sigma move at the end Balkan Gains respect
I bet those inmates were ordered to act happy by the men who were running the chain gang. They would never have dared to express how miserable they really were, because then they would've gotten the business once the cameramen left...
If you listen closely you can notice a genuine sadness and grimm resignation in the tone of voice from that black convict.
Your weak
1st gut is rhyming which is rapping. There's footage older than this of us rapping. JAMAICANS DIDN'T CREATE HIP HOP.
Jamaicans created toasting over records a long time before the US music biz created "hip-hop"
Your statement doesn't make any sense. Basically, you're stating toasting pre dates hip hop when rap entered the music industry. Do toasting pre dates hip hop when it was created, not when it entered the music industry. Toasting is not related to hip hop & and doesn't sound like anything to it. Hip hop starts when we created it, not when it entered the music industry, which is another word for the music "business." Why toasting not in the music industry? Toasting is not in the industry cause no one besides Jamaicans knows or likes it. The music industry doesn't dictate when hip hop was created!
@@caramelsantana 1976
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1976
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@@caramelsantana Hip-hop - they were the first words on the genre's first big hit, the Sugarhill Gang's 1979 song, “Rapper's Delight.” But at the time no one-not even the young kids who had invented the music, the dances, the rhymes, and the visual art of this burgeoning
A lot of respect for all of them.!To survive if it was possible like this way.
That dude had a serious rap...
thats irish dancing i believe
@@burymewithmymoney346 Okay, but I was talking about the singing.
@@burymewithmymoney346 what
@@nuffflavor
It’s not his song, it’s a popular song that’s been around since 1915 with people only changing the lyrics a bit.
Bars.
The first singer looks like he is related to Eddie Murphy!
He does
If you go to prison you should be made to work on the chain gang to make you useful for a change. All prisons in the USA should have a chain gang,it should be mandatory .
Instead of making tax payers pay to keep criminals in prison,the ones that can work should be put on a chain gang and make them work for their rent while in prison.
Jason West please explicitly define the “they” you are referring to.
Sounds like some of the first rap to me excellent
"irrepressible happiness of the prisoners" ,
Louisiana State Prison I think
sounds to be worth a visit.
Haha it sounds Khmer Rouge propaganda.
Back in those days those brothas are innocent rip them
the Origins Of Hip Hop !
Closest thing to rap back then
So hip hop been here 🤔
Oh yeah, the irrepressible happiness is just oozing from their pores. I wanna be on a chain gang! Jeepers, some guys get all the luck!
What is wrong with you
@@Phoenix-hf7bw
Hes being sarcastic.
Life expectancy was 10 years..
Almost 100 years ago smh scary
As a child in the South, I can remember the chaingangs. And those metal wagons with the striped prisoners crammed in. It always bothered me.
@@malaquiasalfaro81 Last March.
Tap dance is a healing dance
Even prisoners back then seemed more decent than most people you see on tv today. What has happened to society?
"irrepressible happiness of the prisoners" C'mon A ctionMS this is obvious early U.S. prison propaganda.
Give me a break. Society has actually improved in many ways. You see a few smiling faces in a video of prisoners, and assume that means that people were more decent in the 30's? That's not rational at all. The chain gang system was brutal and inhumane. That's also a time period with horrible racism... those black prisoners had nowhere near equal rights at the time. This film was made around the time that the chain gang system was beginning to be exposed for the truly evil thing it was, and the purpose was likely propaganda to try and convince people that it wasn't so bad, so they intentionally chose the happiest seeming footage they could.
If you look at the actual statistics, crime and violence have steadily *decreased* over time. Just because you see plenty on the news doesn't mean that's all that society consists of. It's increased media coverage, not a worse society. All throughout human history, people have believed that things were getting worse, and that "kids these days" just aren't the same. That's a normal quirk of human psychology, but it has nothing to do with reality.
you really believe that smh
compactdisk2 Crime and violence has decreased, but the incarceration rate in the US is the highest in the world. 2/3 of these prisoners re-offend after released. Prison has a reputation for churning out hardened and professional criminals more dangerous than when they went in.
I haven't looked into chain gangs of the past and I'm sure there was plenty of abuse, but getting outside and laboring doesn't have to be inhumane.
To speak to your main point though, Society is not getting worse, the media is getting more sensationalized. There is always room for improvement however and the incarceration rate is a complex issue.
***** exactly
...watch the tap-dancing at-the-end of the video...
Gold digger remix. Kanye, jamie foxx, & this man all day! SHE TAKES MY MONEY!!! 😭😭😭
That man was flatfoot dancing. It started in the Appalachian states. Thought to be brought over by Irish settlers.
The late patriarch of The Wild Whites Of West Virginia was a coal miner who eventually found fame flatfooting around the country. D Ray White. There is an old documentary on him on YT called "Talking Feet". I suggest you watch his video before you watch the other one (The wild whites...) about his descendants.
'The irrepressible happiness of the prisoners' ... still extraordinary clips.
The sheer caucasity of that statement...
Look how air conditioner used to be. Walls with holes in them.
Did we just found the first rap ever?
Free labor. smdh
As oppressed traumatized and abused as he was bruh was freestyling about a women I love my people put us in the worse conditions and we still survive every generation
life 1999
Yep martin lawrence and Eddie murphy at it again.
Sad but cool..
So who helped FBA create hip hop again?
For sure happy nah man music is food for the soul the one guy at the end really looks like my great great grandfather who was part of the Alabama chaingang for moonshine 😂
Hip hop
The tap dancer is pretty good. Reminded me how Hollywood made musicals in the dust bowl days as they didn't have a care in the world.
First rapper
Believe it or not it footage out their older than this show black people rapping.
I think that was Eddie Murphy in that movie with Martin
We started everything
I wonder what the barrel thing was all about looks like a punishment of some kind.
In the UK a barrel was used to shame 'drunks' It was called a Drunkard's Cloak, what amounts to a pillory.
marybarrettdyer.blogspot.co.uk/2012_04_01_archive.html
I believe in some prisons in USA, the inmates were made to stand up for hours, holding the barrel as punishment (generally for petty offenses)
Other common punishments may have been nightstick beating or 'the birch', food starvation etc.
(Just to note, birching was still being used in British jails until late 60's &
was still legal in The Isle Of Man until the early 80's .Most commonly it was used on 'unruly' young men & was meted out at the local police station by the stationed officer.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunkard%27s_cloak
One author also recorded its existence in 1784 in Denmark, where it was called the "Spanish Mantle".
Further afield, instances of the Drunkard's Cloak use are found in the US; a paper described in 1862 how a "wretched delinquent was gratuitously framed in oak, his head being thrust through a hole cut in one end of a barrel, the other end of which had been removed, and the poor fellow loafed about in the most disconsolate manner, looking for all the world like a half-hatched chicken."[9]
I am old enough to know some, although not all Hahaha, that were birched. It is meant to be bloody painful and it must have had a certain deterent value, because I know of no one who was birched twice, although whether it made them more lawful or just more careful I can't really say.
Sean Hayes how horrible!!!! :(
What happened to the prisoners who didn't sing and dance for the camera man?
listen prison back in the day it was a privilege to be on a chain gang they didn't have to rooms and such back in the day 🚓
Black men always shuckin and jivein
Lol
A young Michael flatley at the end there tap dancing,, he loves his dancing, this fella, probably one of Flatleys relations , ha ha ha ah
We’re they the original rappers
No it's footages out there older than this showing black Americans rapping.
Need this brought back, been nothing but gangs running prisons ever since.
There would STILL be prison gangs. Prison gangs exist because the gangs exist on the outside. The only way to prevent the formation of prison gangs would be to put everyone in solitary confinement, which is obviously not going to happen.
My grandfather was in a chain gang in the south but I’m not sure which one , this is interesting 🧐
what work song is he singing at 1:15 thru 1:26, its so short i cant hear the whole part?? can you upload that full part please
I think the Song Is called " i don't do nobody nothing" but im not sure
holy shit !!!..it's Eddie Murphy's Dad.😲 African American culture was so underrated ...not anymore , this guy is fantastic.
+Anthony Mullen Looks like charlie murphy time traveler lol
Look at how much American Society has declined. Compare this interview with current prisoner interviews GEEZ
only because back then they often locked these guys up for very little as a way of maintaining slave labour after it's banning. today the only people in prison are real criminals, not just subjects of discrimination. GEEZ
That has not changed much
So you're saying that a time before civil rights, before these black prisoners even had the right to vote was actually better? Have you even looked at the overall crime statistics? Violent crime was *way* higher back then. Just because people's mannerisms seem to fit with something you find more "decent" does not mean it was a better time.
There's even writing from the ancient Greek era where old people lament the fact that society has lost its decency and kids no longer respect their elders... it seems pretty obvious that this is just something that ignorant people tend to assume as they grow old. People who assume that changes in fashion, music, and slang mean some sort of moral decline are not exactly demonstrating intelligent reasoning.
Now, don't you have some kids to shoo off your lawn?
re you saying the right to vote tames violence? Have you looked at FBI violent crime stats lately? Violent crime was not higher in the 1920's dummy. Of course your not old enough to remember segregation and how safe the inner cities were.
BTW, why are you making this a race issue?
I wonder what Murican pop scene would be like if there had never been any blacks in Murican.
I’d refused 😅to work everyday been running away every chance I got😂
Go Paddy!! 2.20
Tapping in chains 0.0
anyone seen the movie "i am a fugitive from a chain gang" starring paul muni?
Yes, and it upset me.
Begs the question,........"Dance or else what?"...
This is were rap started
Got damn propaganda
trying to find a trailer for life with Martin Lawrence. My bad
Kinda reminds me of the opening scene of The Green Mile.
Massa...Eye iz soooo happpy !
The teeth so beautiful
she's in the jail house nooooowww
The thumbnail looks oike Ernie Shavers
I'm sorry to say that i don't think things have changed much, chain gangs are still around, persons of color still predominate, still wearing zebra stripes ,the American prison / industrial complex is largest in the world, and they still want more prisons ( privately corporate ones of course)
Perhaps, we may all find our selfs on a gang behind bars !!!😢😢😢
02:15 right, shit, fuck, gotta lock 'em up, prisoners, muhjob. fuck.
Tapdancin' inmate at the end kinda looks like D. Ray White. Appalachian legend.
Irish dancing chain gang style
First I’d told white man i 😅ain’t wearing no chaines
Nice.
WHERES LUKE
0:55-1:19
Okay, what a talented singer-songwriter.
That's what they should do with all the thugs now!
What’s that song right here? I need that. 1:19
Where's cool hand Luke
Looks like Eddie Murphey
Yup.
Irreplaceable Happiness of the prisoners?!!
2020 protest is what this sounds like
The white dude was doing the leg irons shuffle
Rapists wore barrels.
How cute is this guy. 1st guy 🙂
is this a movie or real?
this has got to be a movie-
Real
looking for your site- no luck
Cryde barrow ainda está vivo.
Not one fatty in the bunch. Chain Gang Camp could be the answer to first world obesity.
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Back when we made prisoners work!
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Shakles on my feet!
this is interesting footage...
I wonder what they have done
What a beautiful song
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