Jive Dance (1943)

Jive dance.
Hammersmith Palais, London.
M/S as dance teacher Josephine Bradley walks down steps at Palais and stands in front of Lou Praeger and his band. She announces the first dance to be performed is the jitterbug. Various shots of Tony Jackson and Mavis Sutton jitterbugging on the dance floor. She then explains how to jive dance with the help of Norma Cave and Jack Orton-Smith (?) who slowly show us the steps. Various shots as they jive, Tony and Mavis come on to join them. M/S of crowded room. Various shots as the crowds of people come onto the dance floor to jive, good shots.
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[@GGG-sd9ei]

My mum was a jiver. She won a competition when she was 16. Her name was in the papers!

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

Thank you, Max. You know how I love looking at dancing through history, especially during WW2 and in countries outside the U.S. This is great. I'm saving this.

[@barryrudge1576]

How totally formal old boy, the BBC accent from the period is priceless, no vulgar regional accents here boys and girls.

[@rogergibbons2590]

As you say, Rupert, ... Priceless!!!... what happens to all dances once the Ballroom Gestapo gets their hands on choriography!.. It destroys all the soul and immediancy of dance!.. and makes it dull ,predictable and sequenced !..

[@gordonayres2609]

That's not actually true here. This is simply to demonstrate it to an audience. And in any case once they get going , they are swinging it ,though at a moderated pace-which is the point. (They couldn't go mad like in contests or injuries occurred so it was often banned) And later in this film when the ballroom crowds come on on the floor -its a lot more swinging but it is not so in focus which is a pity. I am a dancer so could pick out some nifty movers across that floor and interestingl as it looked to be largely British dancers. It is always the cliche that the Yanks arrived and put the British soldier out of place in a dance with his style and swing ability. Yet I've seen vintage movies with Brit soldiers jiving competently!

[@rupert2591]

Completely priceless!

[@paulbrennan3996]

Old school the best 🤝🙏👏💕🎼🎙️🎶

[@traceydaizy]

I always loved all this stuff, jiving, and everything. I used to dress in Teddy girl stuff when I was an early teen. It's just a shame that my dad was such a monster and a child molester that he ne

[@GeneralPadron]

Thanks for sharing. America is not a country, it is a continent.

[@barryrudge1576]

She might have the right BBC accent but probably tunnel vision and dim

[@nathanwood4762]

What do you call the country that you don't call America? The United States is not the right name because other countries also are made from states that united, for example, the United States of Mexico.

[@missingMBR]

America is two, or possibly three continents (*if you count sub-continents); North, South and Central*. But America is also a colloquialism for a country, officially known as The United States of America. Now that we've got the pedanticism and semantics out of the way, let's all just carry on and enjoy KZbin.

[@globebloomer7213]

I’m sure the lady from 1943 will take note of this triggered person’s comment on KZbin 😂 AMERICA 🇺🇸

[@Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s]

Does that men that Mexicans are Americans?