Let’s waltz into this new year of centenary celebrations with some films that will make you jump up and shake your tail feather.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, Slow-Motion Dancing Scenes, year unknown
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn723303
Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, filmmaker unknown, École de Danse de l’Opéra de Paris (exercises à la barre), 1921
https://library.princeton.edu/pathebaby/node/2409
Grahame Newnham Collection, Pathé Frères, La pluie de feu, 1923
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5zCORVSgq8
Cinémathèque de Bretagne / Gwarez Filmoù, Pierre Debec, Holiday on Ice, 1955
https://www.cinematheque-bretagne.bzh/base-documentaire-holiday-on-ice-426-10508-0-8.html
Grahame Newnham Collection, Julius Hagen, Across Europe (Paris Sequence), 1939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSlmKAugtI
Ciclic, André Lacombe, La Nuit du Caméra Club de Malesherbes (CCAM), 1956
https://memoire.ciclic.fr/1023-nuit-du-camera-club-de-malesherbes-ccam-la