YouTube channel Raridades da Capoeira recently shared Vadiação, a short but fascinating documentary of capoeira produced in 1954 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The film’s opening credits mention (in Portuguese) “director A. Robatto Filho”, “berimbaus and singers of Mestre Bimba”, “game players of Mestre Valdemar”, and the names Caribé, Paulo Jatobá, Manoel Ribeiro, and Silvio Robatto as “collaborators”.
Quality footage of capoeira pre-YouTube can be hard to come by. Here’s a German clip that just popped up on the aforementioned site that shows Mestre João Grande, Mestre Pequeno, and Mestre Boneco in Salvador in 1989. If you do not speak German (like me), take advantage of YouTube’s subtitle auto-translation for a little more insight!
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