Chicken Dance - 1929 | The Archivist Presents |

Apparently, it's Dance Like a Chicken Day today. This is the nearest I could find in the archive but it is absolutely delightful!
Max Rivers shows how he trains Cochran's Young Ladies.
Shots of the instructor standing with the girls. He shows them the steps and they practice. Shots of the girls dancing.
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[@NoosaHeads]

Wow!

[@davids8449]

The approach of the trainer seems quite up to date dissolves all those many years in seconds

[@raijinenel3116]

Look at that diversity. Loving it.

[@YouWontDoAnythingAboutIt]

How fucking edgy of you.

[@ETHANALLEN-zp7wq]

94 years ago

[@johnorchard4]

really? You do know that it is 2024 today, don't you?

[@snarflatful]

Classic.

[@rickvelez5547]

Three months before the stock market crash of 1929 and the start of the Great Depression

[@JJONNYREPP]

Chicken Dance - 1929 | The Archivist Presents | #441 0445am 15.5.24 the Cochran's of Stacksteads, no doubt? no idea what the conflagration prior to this skit was in reference to, though...

[@Joe_Peroni]

My grandpa, Alex Lewis, met my grandma, Lizzie, when he played in a band just like the guys here, & SHE was a dancer, just like the girls here! (They married in 1926.)

[@user-xd2xr5pu5m]

😳👍💪👏👏👏👏

[@MyanmarMyanmar-jo3mj]

Hello

[@davids8449]

Looks like the girls were well fed

[@OrangeUp]

He was rude.

[@davids8449]

My father always said that you have to be cruel to be Kind

[@OrangeUp]

@@davids8449 And do you believe it?

[@davids8449]

@@OrangeUp yes of course...........look at Britain in 2024 what do you think...........PS parents were German old type , and I am very pleased about that

[@OrangeUp]

@@davids8449 Happy you are happy with your parents 🙂

[@Joe_Peroni]

Yes, I thought he was a bit rude & impatient, the way he pulled that girl out.