Highland dancing in bedknobs and broomsticks (Walt Disney 1971)

Highland dancing in bedknobs and broomsticks (Walt Disney 1971)
Highland dance dans l'Apprentie Sorcière de Walt Disney (1971)

[@YourRoyalMajesty.]

0:45 the woman in the greenish dress and red hair (Sandra Brewer) was my dance teacher for many years!!!! She was extraordinary! Absolute gem of a person.

[@Presleyera]

Seriously ? The young lady with the green dress? That's just incredible, she's one of the best in those dance scenes, I love this movie 😊🎥

[@YourRoyalMajesty.]

@@Presleyera she definitely was a force! I started at her studio when I was 3. I was lucky to have her in my life for 13 years. Watching her perform live was beyond a privilege. I'll always be thankful! This is one of my favorite movies, mainly for the street dance scene 😂 💖🕯️

[@Presleyera]

@@YourRoyalMajesty. Thanks for your answer, it's really nice and moving to read this kind of story! And yes this part (Portobello) of the movie is incredible! Hello from France 😊🇫🇷👋🏼

[@ivanprekajski1993]

She died in 2017 aged 72.

[@YourRoyalMajesty.]

@@ivanprekajski1993 Yes she did. It was such a sad day. She was loved by so many.

[@zephryus]

This scene always put a smile on my face and made me proud of my Scottish heritage.

[@beckyann8389]

A small part of my family is from Scotland too

[@RafaleC77th]

Even after the 30 some odd years later seeing again, this scene never fails to amaze.

[@beckyann8389]

I just love the sound of bagpipes and drums harmonizing like that

[@SaraRose24800]

Tonight July 30th, 2016- Saturday... I watched the Movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" for the very 1st time and I am 16 Year's Old. I never heard about this Movie ever but when I was watching the Special-Features on the Movie "Pete's Dragon" 1977 Movie of how the made the Movie on July 28th, 2016- Thursday for the first time... While watching the Special-Features it showed Different Movies that had Live-Action and Animation and the Movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" was one of them and me Older Sister said "Oh! We should "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" this weekend!" and I thought to meself "What is that??? I never heard about that Movie..."... But me watching that Movie is was SOOO good and amazing! 😍😍😍💜💜💜 I loved everything about it including the "Portobello Road", Underwater Song, and Spell Dancing Clothes Song! 😍😍😍🙌🙌🙌 The "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" Movie is one of me favourite Disney Movies now! 👏👏👏

[@disneyfan9134]

0:04 I may not be Scottish myself but I loved the sound of bagpipes. I can just listen to them everyday. 😊

[@meganconnell6853]

It's being 50 years that film "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" in 1971, I love this dance in this part of the story, I love it, it's my favourite of one of my favourites on my own and it's the best thing for me in peace forever.

[@cristinademartini1284]

my second favorite part of this movie! I loved it when i was a little girl and i love it still.

[@cillycakes]

Oh man. They are ready to go. This movie brings back gooood memories. I think I still own the VHS somewhere in my house.

[@christinehughes4410]

+ms hmeecill better get the dvd from wallmart vhs are obsolete now.

[@targaryen1670]

+Christine Hughes video players are still ok I still have a working one that lets me play old movies like this sometime the screen plays up but it fixes it's self after that

[@disneyfan9134]

0:40 I loved the way one of the older ladies in that dance say “loverly”. Must be a cockney accent or some sort but whatever that accent is, i really like the way they talk. I wished I can dance like theses younger ladies or those highland dancers but I’m not much of a dancer and I got recently got planter fasciitis unfortunately. I mean I can sort of dance but not as well and I much prefer to sing. I can listen to those beautiful Irish, British and Scottish accents all day, I find it so calming and enchanting.

[@YourRoyalMajesty.]

The dancer in the green dress, with red hair, was my dance teacher for many years! She was such an absolutely fantastic lady.

[@MrTheWayfarer]

Haha a flashmob! ;)

[@joannestealey4482]

The Scottish must have some good lungs to play those bagpipes

[@Riveriya12]

I've always loved the music when the women are dancing. Does someone know if it's a traditional Irish theme or something? It seems unlikely that it was composed exclusively for the film. I'd really like to hear it in full.

[@bharrinsama6639]

Pablo Rivera González Es una pena. Pero si te fijas en la estructura armónica de la pieza, observarás que es una variación del tema. Ya que son varias variaciones al famoso tema Portobello Road, cuando toca el piano, big band, escocés, después con los árabes... Es una pena, pero está full y es lo que hay

[@ginaginagina.]

The dancing is a take on Scottish Highland Dancing.

[@Markswean]

@@bharrinsama6639 no son árabes, son hindúes. Hasta 1950 la India pertenecía a UK (como protectorado) así que las FFAA británicas tenían un importante número de hindúes en sus filas, de ahí que aparezcan en la pelicula :)

[@dmulk1]

I've always liked it too. There's just something about that piece of music with the ladies dancing that has always stuck out in my mind since seeing this movie as a kid many years ago.

[@nachofajita734]

I want to know the name of the music of the highlander dancing

[@SegeyK]

WOW!

[@emelmc]

I feel like I was the little girl in the background when I was a kid.

[@leemclean5247]

Omg I am a Highland dancer and they did it all wrong

[@1979cl1]

Well it's all Hollywood, know what i mean?

[@Markswean]

There's people flying on a bed, man...

[@rhughes38]

bedknobs and broomsticks so much better than the overblown mary popins was seven years earlier.

[@leonardhughes7679]

yes it had a story line a good one especially if your into the world war two era. dad took me to see this up at westgate mall and he actually had to drive all the way from the east side side of cleveland the polish village era up to practically lakewood where westgate mall was located in those days the theater was located in the mall. recently looked at the amount of theaters in one location wasnt much the theaters in those days the maximun was only three screens. for some reason ive grown bored with wonkaa 1970 not so with this one.

[@WillScarlet16]

The first section is obviously Highland dancing. The women's dance looks and sounds more Irish than Scottish though.

[@stephenstrange529]

+William Craig - Yes, the whole routine shows the different races and nationalities that you'd find in London. This excerpt begins with Scottish dancing, then segues to Irish dancing.

[@alicefarrier3560]

This entire sequence is a masterpiece. The way music and dancing from different countries flows seamlessly without a noticeable change in rhythm.

[@ETalamante]

With the brushes and backsteps, the second part was definitely Scottish Highland dancing, rather than Irish step dancing.

[@drrd4127]

Definitely not Irish dance mate

[@1979cl1]

There's a young sailor in the background, will he be dancing the sailors hornpipe?

[@MichaelRosnitschek]

Does anybody know how the tune of the bagpipes is called?

[@dixieproduction568]

cool **

[@spiderlime]

i don't want to give disney any ideas, but following the mary poppins and christopher robin schtick about grown up characters, they may well do a sequel set in the cold war ...

[@zephryus]

I've thought of this. "Magic Doorknobs and Flying Vacuums ". Taking place in the 90s in balkan eastern europe (could even do this as modern day ukraine since it's a very similar situation as BK&BST), a woman fosters a group of 3 siblings. she is a home grown witch, wanting to rebel against the occupation, as she learns her practice from an old tome she recently found. The children snoop the house and bust their hostess casting a spell to see what's happening in the rebellion (or war front). Additionally, she can't travel to the occupation zone, as she can't get her vacuum to fly properly because the hose keeps getting clogged. to keep her secret, she enchants a door knob that easily comes off the attic door with a warp spell similar to the bed of BK&BST. having to take care of the children, she is in search of the gentleman that the book dealer said that the tome came from. The gentleman is actually a recent university graduate who's father was a murdered sorcerer. With aligned goals, the graduate, the witch and the three children search for the other lost books, which were in a very heavily guarded state library taken over by either hostile occupation. after finding the books, the group is hassled by soldiers, and the youngest child thinks quickly as she realizes the knob screws onto a bolt of a drawer of a very large library table. she sets the path to a mystical land that she read in a book of fairytales she found in the library. they flee, without the graduate, who luckily escapes the building. The spell works on the table, only for the table to break as they land in a forest. they meet a sorceress who tries to trick them promising the main character to trade spells. The sorceress captures them, and her apprentice betrays the sorceress as the group again flees, this time on a carriage, and yes the knob somehow fits onto a screw in thee carriage. the apprentice somehow makes it into their world, only for everyone to find that chaos has broken out and the city is under siege or strict curfew. The apprentice helps the main character witch with her plan by teaching her a new spell. She also found a new vacuum from her neighbor's abandoned house. Surprise, the graduate was at the witch's home, looking for her and the children. United, the graduate, main character and apprentice go off to enchant mannequins, kitchen equipment and uniforms from stores & a local war museum to attack & scare off the occupiers. After the success, the main character tries to send the apprentice home, to no avail. The next morning, the news states that the occupiers have left. With nowhere to go, the apprentice becomes the main character's apprentice, and the main character adopts the children. The film starts to hint that they will live happily ever after, but then a cliffhanger, perhaps an airstrike siren goes off, and the apprentice and the witch look at each other, and say "let's go". The end, Credits roll.

[@ourhappyhomeschool2815]

This scene used to scare me so much as a kid

[@tinythechick]

lol why?!

[@ourhappyhomeschool2815]

I don't know what it was, it felt so mysterious and strange to me lol

[@tinythechick]

+Our Happy Homeschool aww. It's weird what kids end up being frightened by!

[@nancysherburne7445]

Much better in the movie as part of Portobello Road. This was not worth keeping.

[@YourRoyalMajesty.]

Some people, like me, like seeing this specific part 😊 the lady in the green dress and red hair was my dance teacher. Absolute marvel of a woman. I was so lucky to have learned from her 🙂

[@weezothekid]

but are they tree Scotsmen? 😳😳