Summary

DANCING

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Title: DANCING
File Number: AFP-54D 16mm; VTM-54D Beta SP; NET-191 DigiBeta (at 01:22:51:00); Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Description: 00:19:32:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU 1890s: CHICAGO'S FATIMA - She Moved Her Muscles and the Camera Helped 00:19:36:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Fatima shakes her stuff 00:19:52:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS 1890s people square dancing in living room 00:20:02:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Cave, people w torches dance around couch 00:20:14:00 B W 1900s MS Circa 1900 trick film (a la Melies): Explosion, the devil leaps from couch, hurls cape to dancers who fight over it cape bursts into flames, devil dances amid fire, his legs separate from body & dance 00:21:24:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CLIP REMOVED 00:22:15:00 B W 1930s MS 1930s couples dance slowly in dance marathon, fall on each other 00:22:32:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU Dragging feet 00:22:38:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Woman collapses, men in white lift & shake her, stretcher in back 00:22:53:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU Men rest on cots 00:22:59:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU Shoes w a hole smoking 00:23:02:00 B W 1920s MS 1920s couples do the Charleston 00:23:26:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU Charleston-ing feet 00:23:35:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Woman shimmies in front of friends 00:23:37:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU Musicians, party scenes montage, laughing, mixing drinks 00:24:16:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Couple dip & kiss in doorway 00:24:30:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU From behind kissing couple 00:25:22:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Party girl runs & leaps into man's lap, kisses him 00:25:41:00 B W 1920s MS 1920s: ANNA MAY WONG in garden stoops to look into pool 00:26:05:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Wong does traditional Chinese dance 00:26:23:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Wong's Chinese dress turns into modern American dress she dances the Charleston 00:27:05:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage WS Couples dance the Lindy Hop onstage 00:28:15:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU Inside control booth, men watch crowds dance on 3 screens 00:28:18:00 B W 1950s MS 1950s teenagers dance to band 00:29:15:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Teenagers around man demonstrating the Six-Five Special jukebox 00:29:28:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Man tap dances on one leg, clowns, falls, people watch 00:31:32:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU Man falls across, then off, piano at party 00:31:38:00 B W 1919 MS 1919: Saloon, Westerners dance, cowboy shoots at piano player (HAROLD LLOYD) who then leaps up & plays extra fast 00:32:19:00 B W 1930s CU 1930s animation - skeletons play instruments, dance w duck, come apart, stretch 00:33:53:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Montage flapper party scenes w fat man 00:34:40:00 B W 1940s MS 1940s: MAXINE SULLIVAN sings SOME OF THESE DAYS w piano 00:34:45:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU 3 slick men dance in unison, CU feet 00:34:51:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU 3 girls dance 00:35:39:00 B W 1940s CU 1940s: multiple image of MAURICE ROCCO at piano, he sings BEAT ME, DADDY, girl dances 00:36:05:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU Multiple kaleidoscopic image of his hands playing 00:36:43:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage CU Man and woman in Mexican clothes dancing 00:36:57:00 B W 1926 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s footage MS Couples in Mexican drag dance 00:37:33:00 B W 1940s CU 1940s man playing saxophone 00:37:37:00 B W 1940s MS 1940s swing jitterbug dancers: they get very athletic cuts to rest of band
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