Sheffield, Yorkshire. <br/> <br/>Full titles read: "WELL DONE SHEFFIELD CINEMAS - magnificent sum raised for Hospitals - Carnival and Fancy Dress Football Match." <br/> <br/>L/S of the street carnival in full swing. Large crowds of people in fancy dress costumes move down street. M/S of Harem girl (could be a man dressed as a woman) dancing in front of a man playing an organ grinder. M/S of clown with tambourine standing next to man playing the piano. <br/> <br/>L/S of man in top hat and tails conducting a band full of clowns at football stadium (could be either Hillsborough or Bramell Lane). L/S's of the the football players coming onto the pitch for charity football match (possibly Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United). L/S of two woman in fur coats standing in centre circle, they kick off the match. Several shots of the football match in progress. L/S of the ball being crossed into the area from the right a player headers the ball and scores. L/S's of the crowd waving at the camera. <br/> <br/>Various shots of the street carnival. L/S's of people dancing and clowning around in the street, someone is seen dancing in a skeleton costume! Various floats and horse drawn coaches pass by. More shots of people waving in football stadium. Several M/S's of two men in top hat and tails having a play fight on the side of the football pitch. A small boy with large coat and floppy hat stands and watches. More L/S's of the football match in action.

Paiute Indians in Nevada

early French silent cinema - color - man in skeleton costume does magic tricks - women dance - magician - devils - early in-camera special effects

Mexican Day of the Dead carnival with "skeleton dances" takes place in Moscow

Animation of a human skeleton dancing. The adult human body contains 206 bones, made up of the structural protein collagen, inorganic mineralised calcium phosphate, and in this case, a high percentage of funk.

Near the end of World War 2, in Europe, the German administration organized an ice show for the war weary populace in the Berlin Sport palace. A woman ice skater is seen figure skating on the large ice rink of the Berliner Sportpalast The stadium is roofless from bomb Allied bombing since January 1944. Narrator calls it "burned out." The steel skeleton of the roof supports is visible. The stadium seating is filled with spectators dressed in warm clothing. Some also use blankets. The audience includes many German soldiers in uniform, on whom the camera focuses during the film. The woman skater is identified as Lydia Feischt (spelling uncertain) and she performs some spins to complete her performance, as the audience applauds enthusiastically. Views of audience clapping their hands. A man and woman perform next, dancing together on the ice. Finally, a troupe of women skaters perform as ballet dancers on the ice.Nazi German administration organized an ice show for the war weary populace in the Berlin Sports Palace or Sportpalast (Ehemaliger Standort Sportpalast Berlin, Potsdamer Str. 172B, 10783 Berlin, Germany) in World War II. A woman ice skater is seen figure skating on the large ice rink of the Berliner Sportpalast. The stadium is roofless from bomb Allied bombing since January 1944. The narrator calls it "burned out." The steel skeleton of the roof supports is visible. The stadium seating is filled with spectators dressed in warm clothing. Some also use blankets. The audience includes many German soldiers in uniform, on whom the camera focuses during the film. The woman skater is identified as Lydia Feischt (spelling uncertain) and she performs some spins to complete her performance, as the audience applauds enthusiastically. The audience clapping their hands. A man and woman perform next, dancing together on the ice. Finally, a troupe of women skaters perform on ice. Location: Berlin Germany. Date: January 1945.

HI JINX WITH THE COLLEGE KIDS

Dancing skeletons

kids' hair stands on end; dancing skeletons; turning floor; man hit in head; switch pulled

ORIG. NEG 600 FT. SOF MAG CU LIFE SIZE IMITATION LION IN CAGE BEING "FED" THROUGH MOUTH WHICH IS A VACUUM, SUCKING IN FOOD. CU A ROOSTER ON A REVOLVING DISC (CALLED THE DANCING BANTAM). THIS IS A DISPLAY OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AMUSEMENT PARKS. ABC REPORTER "DUELS" WITH COWBOY AND WINS - COWBOY IS HEARD DYING, AND YELLING YOU GOT ME! YOU GOT ME! CU SKELETON IN NIGHTSHIRT AND CAP PLAYS PIANO, WHILE ANOTHER SKELETON IN BACKGROUND RISES FROM A COFFIN. ANOTHER DISPLAY SHOWS A WHITE HUNTER STRUGGLING WITH AN ALLIGATOR (BOTH ARE DUMMIES). MORE SHOTS OF SKELETON PIANIST AND SKELETON IN COFFIN. ANOTHER CU MR. TOP GUN WITH WHOM THE REPORTERS AGAIN DUELS AND LOSES. MR. TOP GUN LAUGHS AT HIM, CALLS HIM A MISERABLE POLECAT AND ALLENGES HIM AGAIN. (MR TOP GUN'S VOICE IS A RECORDING.) CI: GEOGRAPHIC - ILLINOIS, CHICAGO. EXHIBITIONS - NAT'L ASSOCIATION OF AMUSEMENT PARKS. ENTERTAINMENT - AMUSEMENTS.

THE REPORTER SOUND FROM THE SEGMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE.To discover how the "Dia de los Muertos" (Day of the Dead) festival is celebrated in Mexico, the ‘Fantastic Festivals of the World’ team traveled to the heart of the beautiful and lush Michoacan State. By the shores of Patzcuaro Lake, small indigenous villages, descendants of the Purepecha tribe, celebrate this festival in a most unusual way. Here they call it the "Night of the Dead". Pagan rituals from Pre Hispanic times are blended with the Colonial Catholic traditions by the local people to create a colorful and uplifting way of honoring their adored dead. Michoacan is known for its skilled artisans. Stone carvers, devilish mask makers and the ancient craft of creating figures from corn cane are the area’s specialty. the city of Morelia and two sisters specialize in local cuisine such as Tarascan soup and pot coffee made with chocolate.

THE HAPPY SKELETON: SKELETON DANCES, FALLS APART, BONES COME TOGETHER AGAIN

Opens with bell tolling Victory against Germany in World War II. Next, a slate reads: "Victory Leads to Peace," and a farmer is seen with cattle pulling a plow. But narrator says "the problem now is future peace," and a map of Germany is shown overlaid with "Your Job in Germany." A cartoon of a soldier is superimposed on the map, along with one of a World War 1 American soldier and a figure of possible future soldier with similar mission. Camera focuses on parts of German aircraft in a jumbled heap. Closeups of weary defeated German soldiers at end ot World War II. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler speaking and haranguing an audience from a podium in an animated and forceful way. Swastika flags displayed from houses in a quaint German town. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, at a microphone. Glimpse of a German concentration camp. But as they appear, each of the Nazi elements promptly disappears, showing the scenes without such Nazi symbols and persons. Skeleton remains of bombed buildings. Flower displays. Bucolic German rural countryside and quaint old villages in peaceful settings. Camera focuses on a book titled "German History." Chapter I, titled "Blood and Iron," shows Image of Otto von Bismarck. German troops march in a parade. Narrator states that "under Bismarck, the German empire was built." (He formed the German Empire in 1871, unifying Germany with himself as Imperial Chancellor, while retaining control of Prussia at the same time.) The film shows mounted German lancers as it alludes to Bismarck's campaigns against Denmark in 1867; Austria in 1866; and France, in 1870. Germany's leaders celebrating its status, in 1871, as the mightiest power in Europe. Troops marching and girls dancing nearby. Farmers plowing field with a horse and cow. Classic peaceful rural alpine scenes with local people in agricultural pursuits. A group of local German musicians playing folk music as village people dance outdoors. Back to the book, Kaiser Wilhelm II is shown on Chapter 2, entitled: "Deutschland über Alles." Gathering of German soldiers in Pickelhaube (spiked helmets). A German Big Bertha howitzer firing. German troops marching against Serbia; Russia; and France (with view of war damaged French cathedral). German invasion of Belgium (with view of clock tower resting in rubble). German troops seen in Italy, walking past battle-damaged buildings. German Zeppelin dropping bombs on British targets and view of bombed out London neighborhood. Next scene shows a capsized ship with survivors running across its hull. Film slate labels the scene as United States, as if it is a U.S. ship attacked by Germany. (Actually, it is the Austro-Hungarian Battleship, SMS Szent Istvan, torpedoed, by Italian torpedo boats, during World War I.) Next, American soldiers in trench are seen going "over the top" and into "no man's land" on the western front of World War 1. Glimpse through a window of Kaiser Wilhelm II, after defeat of Germany, in 1918. View of Germans in a Beer Garden. Picturesque view of German town. A German orchestra performing. American soldiers marching out of Germany, with flags waving. Back to the history book,as chapter III is revealed, entitled "Today Germany, tomorrow, the world," and featuring Adolf Hitler. German troops invading Austria (where a civilian lies dead on the ground). German troops entering Czechoslovakia (where local people in tears render the Nazi salute). They march into Poland (where a girl weeps over someone, not seen, on the ground). They march into France (where a wounded, bandaged child cries in a bed). Next, is a scene from England, where a British child victim of bombing lies dead in the remains of a shelter. German troops invading Norway, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg and Russia (where a woman tries to rouse a dead woman). They invade Yugoslavia (where women sit near coffins of children) and Greece (where a woman rescues a naked child). A U.S. merchant ship explodes after being torpedoed by a German submarine (unseen). Scenes of destruction with people plucking dead victims from rubble of buildings. American troops invading Normandy, France on D-day, June 6, 1944. Several American soldiers fall to German gunfire on the beach. Wounded American soldiers being transported in jeeps on the battlefield and being placed on landing craft for evacuation. Americans walking past huge piles of destroyed aircraft parts. A landing craft filled with wounded American soldiers. American wounded and dead on a battlefield. Sailors abandoning a burning American ship by jumping into the sea. A sailor picked up in a life boat. A wounded American soldier being dragged from the beachhead at Normandy. Various wounds being treated by U.S. Medical Corps personnel. More scenes of American wounded being moved on stretchers. Scene shifts abruptly to German people folk dancing. Film concludes with question marks about the future. Location: Germany. Date: 1945.

SKELETON DECORATIONS IN BALLROOM, COUPLES DANCE WEARING COSTUMES

On the Town - 1949 trailer - musical - Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Vera-Ellen, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett - directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen New York City - Manhattan skyline at sunrise/dawn, view from across water, boat passes, sun between dirty buildings - taxis rush by at night - interior nightclub or restaurant w/ rhumba dancing three sailors walk - up angle to Rockefeller building - tilt down to Rockefeller square - golden statue sailors watch woman in red dress pass by - Brooklyn Bridge w/ view of NYC skyline sailors at museum of natural history, under dinosaur skeleton - bones - construction (brontosaur; stegosaur also visible) - sailors and women dance & sing imitating monkeys - sailors in African tribal headdress - woman plays horn, kicks man percussive instruments - 3 sailors in subway train - Kelly dances partner as couple

BARS. TONE. CS SU JULIE ECKERT. VS REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AS DELEGATES REGISTER INTO HOTELS. LS OF THE RENAISSANCE CENTER. CARPENTERS AND WORKMEN BUILD TELEVISION BOOTHS AND STAGES IN THE JOE LOUIS ARENA. MS OF THE SKELETON OF THE TV ANCHOR BOOTHS. SU ECKERT. VS OF THE CIRCUS PERFORMING AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. ZOOM TO ELEPHANTS DANCING. MS AS WOMEN IN ORNATE COSTUMES PARADE BY. CU OF POLAR BEARS DRINKING MILK. VS OF A JUGGLER AND CLOWNS. CI: POLITICS: CONVENTIONS, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION 1980. BUILDINGS: CIRCUS. ANIMALS: ELEPHANTS. ANIMALS: BEARS.

Postmark East Lansing

Full title reads: "Reading's respectable rag. Students of Britain's youngest University hold their first rag in aid of Royal Berkshire Hospital". <br/> <br/>Reading University, Berkshire. <br/> <br/>Various shots of students in fancy dress messing about on a carnival float - some have bows and arrows, some are dressed as Vikings, some pretend to be doctors and nurses L/S of float driving through crowd. Various shots of students entertaining a crowd; they unveil a skeleton hanging from a frame and make it dance. <br/> <br/>Various shots of students pretending to make film; one shouts through a megaphone, another operated pretend camera. A male student in drag (the starlet!) pretends to snog another male student (the hero). The hero is then thrown over a wall by two students dressed as villains. <br/> <br/>Cuts / out takes start at 01:23:48. More shots carnival parade. Nothing drastically different to the edited part of item. <br/>

Haunted house; sign-HELP YOURSELF; kids stuck in strange, electrified house; Strange oven explodes, dancing Skeleton; Scared kids take animated skeletons come after kids; haunted house antics; folding staircase (fun house type stuff) balloons

Human skeleton performing modern dance.

The next generation Sony Playstation is being demonstrated this weekend at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.They've gone from the underdog to the top dog in four short years.And now Sony is introducing its next generation D-V-D Playstation at the world's largest trade show for video games.In a surprise move by Sony Entertainment, the video game giant unveiled their next generation playstation this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Gamers were able to check out the new technology, but they will have to wait until the fall of 2000 before they can bring one home.The video game industry has grown into 6-billion dollar industry. One in six households owns a playstation. Making the product Sony's fastest selling in its 50 year history.The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) opened today and is the world's largest trade show for the 6.3 billion dollar interactive entertainment software industry in the Los Angeles Convention Center. E3 is where the latest technology in the never-before-seen electronic computer, video games, and education software is debuted.

Skeleton circling break dancing ghost