Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Grandma’s Dances Start Modern Boom
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 6
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Old Time Dancing. DESCRIPTION: At a Blackpool Ballroom there was recently an Old Time Dancing Congress. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS SCU feet dancing - dancers wearing crinolines. Many people, mostly women arriving, walking through foyer in old fashioned dresses. Women getting ready for dances, in their dressing room. Old lady being made up; age 83 years old. MS & GV couples dancing International Waltz. SCU feet dancing. Audience applauding. Couples dancing the International Lancers. Danish couple demonstrate Danish Folk Dance The Shoemakers. Various shots of the dancing.
- Keywords
- Entertainment and leisure
- Locations
- Blackpool; Empress Ballroom
- Card file number
- 47827
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Alec Tozer
- Camera
- James Humphries
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 230
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Grandma’s Dances Start Modern Boom', British Movietone News Issue No. 913, 2 Dec 1946. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14177 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)