Some Shimmiers – Wild shimmy jazz and tango dancing with black musicians in an apaches cellar, images from a silent 1919 movie on a slumming party : well-off whites exploring communities of ‘the other’, such as poor working-class neighborhoods (1).
Film edited with selected clips from the comic one-act play ‘Some Shimmiers’ by Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran with Mildred Moore and John George, published 31 March 1919 in the dutch edition ‘Boevenliefde’ by H.A.P Film | Universal | source: EYE Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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Notes
1. When ‘Slumming’ Was the Thing to Do. New York Times. Jennifer Lee . URL https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/when-slumming-was-the-thing-to-do/
