Aboriginal Dance

(21 Dec 1939) The Australian aborigines perform an ancient war dance.
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[@Rayvon69]

As a Maori I love watching all Indigenous Cultural dances like this. But this commentary and music F&@*%$ GRINDS MY GEARS!!!

[@MrCab236]

Go respect your ancestors of the Dark continent

[@jezcolborne6329]

Yep me too. I hate how white people disrespect other country's and I am white. Keep alive your culture and don't let anyone make fun of it

[@jezcolborne6329]

And keep it alive

[@colinheenan-puruntatameri782]

By looking at the movements, I think the dancers are tiwi

[@zurideydempsey3050]

Yeah sis it’s tiwi

[@jirarrt2754]

This video is making fun of our old people an culture very disrespectful and that’s early days filming for you yep very disrespectful

[@muhyusuf1263]

We Makassar came to Australia hundreds years ago and friends with Aboriginals , we never did racist things because we knew we were humans

[@Andrew300082]

You didn’t find it fascinating? I marveled at how amazing the aborigines’ bodies looked! Americans can learn to say fuck the food industry and just hunt meat and not get obese.

[@Johhny_B]

@@Andrew300082 You can't with 300 million people. All species would go extinct with a few days.

[@muhyusuf1263]

@COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA is an unlawful entity. Our Ancestors never wanted to conquer anyone lol , they went there for trading and brought back the stuff they trade home , sometimes they warred somewhere to protect themselves but they were not offensive, even when they sailed to other islands in Indonesia , sorry my English 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@wattlebough]

@@muhyusuf1263The wathaurong tribe of the Djillong land warred against the Gadubanud tribe until they were no more, by setting fire to their land between Lorne and Cape Otway. They died out because the surrounding tribes wiped them out.

[@leannemaunder1307]

The disrespect shown here is embarrassing.

[@ADHDBunyip]

This is the most racist thing I've seen in a long time. Wow.

[@noifurze6397]

This is a 1920s/ 1930s documentary. I'm laughing not because I think it's funny but because I can't believe what I'm hearing, I'm English by the way and our sense of humour is off the wall,its like some piss take,unless you are British or Irish you probably don't get it

[@noifurze6397]

And if you think I'm racist I'm laughing at the commentary as I said before it's wrong ,that part in time has gone hopefully for ever

[@ADHDBunyip]

@@noifurze6397 I agree. I feel the same.

[@Milly_K272]

​@ahrongoldman281That's good to let your laugh out but try not to be rude bc hey I'm also aborginal and I did a aborginal dance too

[@markh4705]

How disrespectful.

[@marklewfatt2113]

They look like TIWI mob,100km north from my home town

[@fk4608]

I was thinking the same

[@smurfylee]

This footage was ruined by the awful music in the background.

[@yiliang9085]

This was the way they convey stories to the next generation and enrich themselves with their people and ancestors. They are so healthy looking and having so much fun. I can understand why this would look funny from the western point of view in the 1930s. It is unimaginable that there existed only 80 years ago. So close yet far from seeing these precious human beings

[@neverceded6643]

No they were just taking the piss out of us per normal

[@brycepardoe658]

Beautiful culture

[@paulcarney8659]

Awesome dance but hideous commentary and soundtrack

[@kingsley3208]

This is from the 1930s

[@tupG]

People watching present day commentary in a hundred years time will also feel embarrassed or shocked at our ignorance.

[@Lpriv077]

Beautiful people

[@killa46464]

Omg 😱 that is shocking commentary ! So IGNORANT !! Completely disrespectful & clueless to the fact that he’s witnessing an amazing and ancient cultural dance . Its offensive 😡😟 However , that aside it’s Awesome footage of indigenous dancing .

[@KS-fz7hh]

You are aware that this commentary is very old, right?

[@meljane8339]

If it makes you feel better about the underlying message i am interpreting (anti-slavery), there was a popular nightclub dance called "foam dancing" [Baby Rock, tijuana, Baja California, Mexico], in the 1990's (i am in San Diego, California, U.S.A.). 'Slightly before my time for access to that, but reminds me of the invoked dust flame in a way, but different. ... underage university students and regionally-self-directed youths, from the States would go there for Spring vacation and have at the international youth-cohesion aspects the states had barred (often more recklessly), and, apparently dance in soap bubbles.

[@zurideydempsey3050]

A very racist documentary on my ancestors

[@mcleanedwards7748]

Yeah l see the resemblance

[@lisarochwarg4707]

I'm sure they could dance any style of dance that they wanted to.

[@roslyn1143]

they dont dance like that these days in their ceremonies

[@Bluey...66]

Very disrespectful, this shows only your own small perception of your view shame on you

[@neverceded6643]

Maybe next time censor it yourself before uploading it. If it didnt have traditional dance in it -would have reported it.

[@drpaulvfr3597]

And erase history?? This is how people viewed ANYTHING out of the ordinary eye of the WHITE man!! Let it be never forgotten, to be offended is shot at CAUSES the divide still. It's 2022, let's move FORWARD not BACKWARDS ffs🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

[@proudseeker4814]

That was just disrespectful to the Aborigines and the American Blacks.

[@MarA-te5jc]

Narrator is the most disgustingly racist thing

[@Rosina57NZ]

Disgraceful racist commentary

[@user-uw3hq3xj5f]

Tf that’s not even aboriginal dance what is this

[@LtCaswell]

Me: Oh cool, I really wanna know about Aboriginal dances and customs. Narrator: drops the n-word. Me:... ok it's the thirties, those were different times, just focus on the dancing, the outfits, the people Narrator: pokes fun at the people on the film. Me: ok... this was other times, I will not be triggered. I will not be- [cue silly music] Me: *flips table*

[@MattGodzilla2000]

Well technically cacausian negro and mongoloid are legal terms for race in FBI crime identification

[@deusgamer4555]

Good dance, terrible music

[@Am_Brew]

Watch on mute.

[@funkyjunky6574]

Racist video didgeridoo sounds way better than this music

[@kiwicory100]

So culturally sensitive!

[@johndowling5336]

The commentary is humiliating.

[@lorenlash9174]

The commentary is insulting and ruined a beautiful thing. I wonder how inflammatory they meant this to be when it was created as it comes off as mocking now.

[@Jesse-ux9ns]

shocking video

[@JC-AussieDocos]

oh yuck. That commentary and music over the top... so disrespectful and corny. They had no idea the worth of Australias first people and now almost all of them are gone. I heard the other day, only 2 PERCENT of our population is indigenous!!!!! It makes me so angry and sad !!

[@JulianFoley]

A racist presentation of a deeply significant aspect of the web of communications that Aboriginal people used, and still use, to pass on their culture over 65,000 years. These dances are part of the ways these men used to transmit a sophisticated body of Lore, founded on the ethos of Relationality. Similar dance forms are used now by the world-renowned Bangara Dance Theatre; they also underpin the extraordinary corpus of Aboriginal visual art - again, an art form that is the primary representation of contemporary Australian art to the world. By including the original commentary, without qualification, you are simply transferring the dreadful curse of British colonialism which still lays heavily on Aboriginal art, culture, health and survival today. You should remove the video immediately, and commission Aboriginal filmmakers (there are many) to transform the piece into a film that lays out the challenge to Movietone to decolonise your collection, just as so many cultural collections are now doing across the UK..

[@utube1412]

lol

[@Daponics89]

Lord Gort sends a message... "If you don't understand it kill it."

[@Liyahla]

Why they doing them violence like this 😂

[@tertia0011]

This video badly needs context.

[@xx_javier83_xx97]

To be honest could've danced better like wtf was that? get better. But the commentary is on point, nice, crisp voice and some music I could get along to.

[@kalanimoeai584]

Troll alert

[@xx_javier83_xx97]

@@kalanimoeai584 who? YOU OMG U just got fkn rosted rofl rofl rofl lol lol lol lol GET REKT PLEB :)

[@Kayla-lh5we]

A white person Tryna give tips on how to dance lmfao

[@ImagineThat653]

Racists racists racist hahaha 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@jaicotterill5226]

This is hilarious 😂😂😂 🇦🇺

[@bookadare5283]

Europeans would see it that way.

[@Kayla-lh5we]

@@bookadare5283 *colonizers