Tango Dance | 20231220

Rembrandt Theatre, Haarlem, Holland, January 1930 (silent film). Demonstration of the different tango styles by dance teachers Cor Klinkert & Liesje Santen, dancing resp. the “French Tango”, the “Argentina”, the “Promenade”, the “Reserve Wave” and the “Habanera”.

Film edited from dutch Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 01 , 1930 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Hopla ! Revue 1935 Amsterdam | 20231219


Revue “Hopla … met de beentjes”, Plantage Schouwburg, Amsterdam. Matinee 17 maart 1935 voor 700 senioren – met succes nummer “Titteltjes en Spikkeltjes .. !”.
Film edited from dutch Polygoon Hollands Nieuws (Polytoon) cinema news reel week 12 , 1935 | Natuurbeelden | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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Notes

De Plantage Schouwburg. De laatste jaren, deel 1 (1933 – 1939). Frits Slicht. Geheugen van Amsterdam. Amsterdam Museum. URL https://geheugenvancentrum.amsterdam/nl/page/1881/de-plantage-schouwburg

Hopla … Ook de Oudjes waarderen een Grap | De Sumatra Post 20-4-1935.


Hopla … Titteltjes en Spikkeltjes .. ! | De Tijd dagblad 1935

CanCan Dance | 20231218


Cancan dance performance (silent film) by the Miss Walker Girls & De Groot’s Select Jazz Orchestra, Summer 1926, in Cinema Royal, Amsterdam, Holland. Bandleader Hugo de Groot started the first cinema jazz orchestra in Holland in 1925 with his ‘De Groot’s Royal Band’. In 1926 he started with the help of other musicians in town the larger De Groot’s Select Jazz Orchestra (1).

Film edited from dutch Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 34 , 1926 | Europeana Sounds | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Notes
1. Het orkest van Cinema Royal. Joost Groeneboer. Versus 1988 nr. 2 , p. 73-96 . URL https://ugp.rug.nl/versus/issue/view/4279

Belly Dance | 20231217


Untitled movie, generally known as “Turkish dance, Ella Lola”. American vaudeville dancer Ella Lola (born Sep 2, 1883 in Boston) performs a period “Oriental” dance (commonly known as a belly dance) with some Turkish styling. Apparently filmed in Edison’s “Black Maria” studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Edit of a film published 7 October 1898 by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Rembrandt’s Girl | 20231216


Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn
Animation of exploring online the high resolution
(717 gigapixel) image of the Night Watch (1) . The Night Watch is a celebrated painting of the dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn — showing citizens of Amsterdam protecting the city. The painting is almost 400 years old. The high resolution image is a montage of 8439 pictures of the details , created using AI by the team of Operation Night Watch, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland.
The focus of the animation is the highlighted girl – with a chicken upside down on her belt – the mascotte of the Amsterdam Night Watch, and resembling Rembrandt’s wife Saskia Uylenburgh.

Notes

1. Operation Night Watch. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland. URL https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch

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