Table Top Toes
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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- NoS Summary - Barrie Oliver and Betty Bolton in Table d’Hote dance - table-top simultaneous dancing
British Pathe synopsis: "Something new in fast dances by Barrie Oliver and Betty Bolton" We see the couple dancing on a small table top. C/U of their legs as they dance. They do Charleston style movements. Top shot looking down on the table to show how little space they have to dance. "Barrie Oliver calls this his "Table d’hote" Dance - (There were 220 steps per minute for our slow-camera to catch up)" Slow motion footage - C/U of legs as they dance. They end the dance by Betty jumping into Barrie’s arms and sticking her leg out. - Keywords
- Music and dance
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 19 April 1928 p47.
The Bioscope 19 April 1928 p50.
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP001 Used for synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p194.
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How to cite this record
'Table Top Toes', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 358, 12 Apr 1928. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331840 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)