Comes the Revolution

Willie Howard gives a revolutionary speech to an audience of one in this soundie.

A soundie was a three-minute movie meant to be played on a video jukeboxes, produced by Mills Novelty and available in bars and similar venues. For a dime, the audience got a choice of eight three-minute shorts projected on a ground-glass screen. The vast majority of them seem to have been musical. This is the first one I have seen that wasn't.

Modern viewers may think that Howard is indulging in fantasy with his accent, that the way he tells this joke is pure stereotype. Me, I think he sounds a lot like my grandfather, who was a Marxist.