Veloz & Yolanda Perform Early Dance Trends (1943)

[@guyveloz4382]

BTW, this film was nominated for an Oscar in 1943 for the short film genre. It was shot in one afternoon at Warner Brothers studio, mostly using my mom's own then very famous collection of gowns, most designed by by dad, some weighing up to 18 pounds and containing hundreds of thousands of sequins. The gown in the final Rhumba sequence is a rich deep bronze color, the very one weighing a huge eighteen pounds, costing untold thousands.

[@chetsir]

Thanks, Guy for this wonderful video of your parents. They were awesome to watch. I came across them while watching an old movie called, The pride of the Yankees. I researched it further and found several nice videos on KZbin. Thank God for KZbin!! You must be so proud. I have skated competitively for years, and my favorite dance has always been a Tango. Your dad must have had a great powerful physique to toss his partners around like that.

[@Bronisliva]

Thank you so much. Please, who is the composer of tango Mi hijo?

[@guyveloz4382]

@@Bronisliva That composer is my father, Frank Veloz!

[@Bronisliva]

@@guyveloz4382 Thank you very much.

[@souldiegirl]

Guy, I read where you wrote a full-length ballet, An American Tango for your parents that was based on their story. Do you know where it is currently being performed?

[@karenhill3970]

Soooo beeeeeauuuutiiiifuuuul

[@virginiarogers7229]

I love to watch my great aunt and uncle dance. I'm also proud to be in a great and proud family here and South America.

[@victoriajarvis2260]

Congratulations on your great good fortune.

[@Chestnutgray]

@kathydiewald You are indeed correct, Kathy. My older brother Tony long had a girlfriend named Joanne whom I vividly recall. If you remember, my family owned a very large house on nearly an acre of land on steeply sloping Alta Loma Road, just beneath the sunset strip, one block west of La Cienega. But none of any of that is left anymore, only the many precious memories. Old West Hollywood! We shall never see its like again, alas.

[@MysticFiddler1]

My mother named me after Yolanda. It is wonderful to see her perform!

[@davidrutter9786]

Such grace & movement. I love their interaction, looking at other. I purchased a program of 1 of their performances from 1946!

[@guyveloz4382]

You point out something really salient concerning ballroom dancing. Now many decades ago my father volunteered to teach me, with my wife all sorts of dances -- tango, rhumba, bolero, foxtrot, cha cha, waltz, swing -- never mattered WHICH dance it was but my father would never tollerate anyone he was teaching to dance to be gazing off anywhwere at all besides doing the all important thing -- looking deeply into one another's eyes. Now, it happened that I was discussing world ballroom championship rules, where, wrongly I think, they sort of stretch and bend themselves as fae from each other's eyes, creating a very unromantic picture, imho. The dude just shrugged his shoulders and said, well those were the rules, but then i MUST ASK where in hell did such illogical rules originate?

[@MinervasGarden]

This was lovely--thank you for posting. As an aside, my cat was fascinated by the video!

[@ripekashepherd5453]

OMG they are brilliant! she is brilliant!

[@guyveloz4382]

I think this the only tango ever filmed of my mother wearing that long, black mantilla, also of my dad wearing the gaucho outfit.

[@silverhopeful]

They were amazing dancers. I wish I had met your mom in better circumstances, and you as well. Tony was my brother in law.

[@johnmoreton459]

I am a member of your family, my Grandmother was Maria Luisa Veloz your fathers sister. Most of the family live in Florida.

[@408blockbusters]

Hey I am your cousin. Veloz family from California 👍🏽

[@guyveloz4382]

Well, nice to here from you. My immediate surviving family is down to one, my sister Yolanda, whom as kids we all called Little Yolanda.

[@guyveloz4382]

Nice hearing from you. All that is left of my immediate family is my sister Yolanda, called when we were kids, Little Yolanda. Maybe you should check out "An American Tango" , a pretty neat show that I wrote about my folks.

[@monashima5678]

They performed in Pride of the Yankee's (Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig) -- my first viewing of V&Y and I have never seen better. Thanks for posting all their work!

[@dannsirs]

fabulous a treat to watch

[@brockertteambrockert]

Thank you for posting! I first saw them when we watched an old movie. I don't remember which one and I had never seen them before. At that time there was almost nothing online . I just searched again after visiting this afternoon with the legendary Francois Szony and he told me to look again as he thought I could find more. I was so excited to find this

[@marygarcia6033]

my grandfather was from Durango mexico

[@marygarcia6033]

my great uncle is brother to my grandfather fermin veloz

[@NaveDelAmor]

Estupendo!

[@marygarcia6033]

my grandfather was fermin veloz my great grand parents were Perez I think.

[@Chestnutgray]

This segement is slightly cropped, showing no credits at beginning or end. Fact is, this was nominated for an Oscar in 1943 for best one reel short subject, losing out to a WW2 military entry. The whole thing was shot in one afternoon at Warners.

[@fromthesidelines]

ONE AFTERNOON...........................

[@fromthesidelines]

ONE AFTERNOON...........................

[@friendofpotkoorok]

Proper name for this film is "Cavalcade of Dance", made in 1943. The full version was 11 minutes long and was directed by Jean Negulesco.

[@fromthesidelines]

And narrated by Art Gilmore.

[@fromthesidelines]

Negulesco directed dozens of musical shorts for the studio, from 1940 through the war years. After the war, he became a feature director at 20th Century-Fox.

[@guyveloz4382]

Negulesco was famous for his work with Greta Garbo, I seem to recall.

[@marygarcia6033]

been told this is my great uncle

[@gvxrlole]

Holy cow! When they did that intense upside down tango move at 4:51 it looked like Yolanda was just millimeters away from receiving a serious concussion!

[@guyveloz4382]

Yes, in my ballet, which you may google or you tube, "An American Tango" the ballet folks could never come close to duplicating this step, for all their brags to the contrary, simply lacking my dad's singular power, evidently, a kind of spider power, I have called it, allowing spiders, as we've all seen, to easily lift aloft many times their own weight. Recently having passed super dancer named FRANCOIS CZONY, also as powerful in this sense. Kindly check this little recognized but mighty legend out. ZONY, CZONY, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, asnd possessing also Something like "spider power" anyhow. I don't like to mention Dung Beetles, but that's their amazing power, too, LOL! I hesitate, however, to call my father someone possessing "dung beetle "characteristics, however, LOL!

[@valenciavaldez]

mon Dieu she's incredible

[@guyveloz4382]

I suppose the Samba is not included because the closely related Brazilian Maxixe was used instead.

[@murraymae]

Wow! One afternoon?? They were such professionals. And that dip where her head almost hits the floor is jaw dropping!! No one STILL does anything like that! Talk about winning Dancing With The Stars!! But the dance called "The Maxique" Is nowhere on youtube! I know it was a craze that the Castle's started--but why is there no mention of it anywhere? Maybe I'm spelling it wrong--but the dance called the "Mexique" has nothing to do with the dance the Castles or V and Y performed! What gives?

[@marygarcia6033]

don't know going to find a way to find out my family history

[@marygarcia6033]

was told my great uncle is Spanish Dutch

[@Chestnutgray]

The spelling is Maxixe. It is a brazilian dance. The portuguese pronunciation is likely ma-SHEESH or ma-CEASE, but I grew up hearing pronounced ma-CHI-cha, and I still think ma-CHI-cha is a very nice soundiing name, but very likely wrong.

[@NaveDelAmor]

Ma-shee-shay ( short ay).

[@marygarcia6033]

but my dad is veloz my grandfather was fermin veloz

[@marygarcia6033]

my tia told me this my great uncle his brother is fermin veloz my grandfather not sure going to get a DNA to find out my grandfather was Spanish Dutch

[@marygarcia6033]

was told on family reunion his mother was Perez

[@marygarcia6033]

want to find out if this is true my maiden name is veloz

[@marygarcia6033]

he was married twice want to find out more

[@marygarcia6033]

lost not sure but I'm going to get a DNA on me to find out about my dads side I'm a veloz

[@marygarcia6033]

want to find out my dad s history

[@marygarcia6033]

dont know much about my dads side

[@baireshoy21]

@ Wailea20 HELLO, I LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA AND THE KNOWLEDGE TO YEAR 95 YOLANDA IS NOT THE SAME ERA, was a star Tropicana COULD TELL ME?! THANKS

[@guyveloz4382]

My regrets, Sir, but I simply cannot take your meaning in English, so kindly just repeat your post in Spanish, and together, my good friend, we'll both figure this thing out.

[@ronin4711]

It look like I'm going to get some Flak for this. giving a Thumb Down! At the time when it was filmed it was and still is fashionable to ware such a beautiful long dress, however it totally "Masks" her foot/leg work and I'm not being "sexist" here, you just can't see her talent, I'm sure she had great moves, sorry that I couldn't see them!