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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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

Christmas 1938 | 20211226

Christmas 1938 | 20211226 | miracles•media | Boys class singing lesson (Ward method) and boys church choir singing the dutch Christmas carol “Nu Zijt Wellekome”. Dutch cinema newsreel december 1938, produced by Polygoon-Profilti | courtesy of Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

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