Oh'phelia: A Cartoon Burlesque

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen

The film opens on a dressing room set with a mirror, dressing table, and chair center stage and a folded dressing screen on the left. A smiling, dark-haired woman enters through the door on stage right, unbuttoning a ful

Troubles of a Manager of a Burlesque Show

Facing a stationary camera, sitting at a desk, a man works busily. Posters of burlesque queens are on the wall behind him. A single woman, followed later by later two others, comes into the office seeking a job. The mana

Learning to Be Naked: Healing Through Burlesque

Learning to Be Naked reveals the healing, transformative power of burlesque. It’s hard to imagine a more vulnerable experience than getting naked on stage–and for some it is precisely this experience that profoundly chan

Outside the Lines: A Paperdoll Burlesque

A swinging free-for-all that leaves nothing to the imagination! These ladies have guile, style, and a smile! Follies! Comedy! Dances! Four acts designed to excite, amuse, and titillate you!

Burlesque Attack on a Settler's Cabin

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

Forbidden Cinema: Volume 4 - Lost Burlesque Classics

It began with the birth of cinema itself, but by the 1940s amateur erotic productions of beautiful naked models and strippers performing their dances abounded. Blue or stag movies were produced secretly in homes, the fil

Berlin Burlesque: The Art Of Taking Your Clothes Off

SPENCER'S SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT PEEP SHOW A.K.A. MICRO-BURLESQUE

Two obsolete and forgotten microscopes make one last fling at fame and fortune on the tawdry burlesque stage.

Exposed

Beth B takes us into the 21st century underground and reveals a secret world where cutting-edge performers are taking hold of a taboo art form, Burlesque, and driving it to extremes that most people have never seen. It'

Can Can Follies

Early burlesque film with Syra and Caro.

Murder at the Windmill

A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.

Hurly Burly

The opening title card of the viewed print film reads, Hurly Burly, A Star Studded Cavalcade of Burlesque, Glorified Burlesque, Glorified Burlesque;" the print contained no credits. Credits in the record were taken from

Les actualités burlesques

Chopin's Funeral March Burlesqued

A motley quartet of musicians inflicting the torture of their music on a law abiding citizen.

Tempest Storm

The controversial life story of America's greatest exotic dancer, who at 87 years old is preparing for her final and most important act: to repair her broken relationship with her daughter Patricia, who she walked away f

Ball of Fire

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about t

Cut It Out

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.