Category: VIDEO

Foxtrot Dance | 20240106


Rembrandt Theatre, Haarlem, Holland, January 1930 (silent film). Demonstration of the Foxtrot by dance teachers Cor Klinkert & Liesje Santen , including slow motion close up shots.
Film edited from dutch Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 02 , 1930 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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Slowfox Dance | 20240104


Slow Foxtrot dancing after arrival May 1934 at the Amsterdam Schiphol airport of dance couples participating in the International Dance Competition that is being organized in Amsterdam to coincide with the release of the MGM film ‘Dancing Lady’. The winning dance couple will be delegated to Hollywood by MGM .
Film edited from dutch Polygoon cinema news reel week 21 , 1934 | Polygoontoon | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
Music in this Polygoon footage is the hit song of MGM’s “Dancing Lady” : Everything I Have Is Yours by George Olsen & his Music.
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Jazzy 1937 Summer Holiday | 20240103


‘Wild’ jazz was used in the August 1937 dutch cinema news reel showing people all over Holland in a rush going on summer holiday. So jazz in those prewar years wasn’t considered ‘entartete’ art and clearly socially acceptable …. ‘salonfähig’… in Holland.
Film edited from dutch Polygoon cinema news reel week 34 , 1937 | Polygoon Hollands Nieuws | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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