Friday, July 5, 2013

Friday Video: Dance Crazes of the Roaring Twenties


Isabella reporting,

The 1920s may have been a decade of great change and historical significance, but on film, the '20s sure look like a whole lot of fun. This clip is a compilation of popular dances and general shenanigans from the time, matched to the appropriate music that's guaranteed to make you want to jump up for a quick Charleston or Foxtrot. Ain't we got fun!

Many thanks to Susan Bailey, one of our intrepid followers and a fellow-blogger (Louisa May Alcott is My Passion) for first sharing this clip with us!
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9 comments:

  1. AnaJuly 5, 2013 at 3:06 AM

    This made me smile and want to jump up and dance, dance, dance :D !

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  2. Madame GilflurtJuly 5, 2013 at 6:11 AM

    That got my feet tapping!

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  3. LilJuly 5, 2013 at 8:59 AM

    1710That was FUN!

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  4. Caro CarsonJuly 5, 2013 at 12:00 PM

    You find the most interesting things to share. Thank you so much for this video. I remember my grandmother blowing my mind when I was a little girl the day she demonstrated "The Charleston" in the kitchen. Who knew grandma do those twisting-ankle moves like the women in this video?

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  5. AnonymousJuly 5, 2013 at 12:27 PM

    I feel like some of these cuts were from "stag" films of the time based on the very scanty (by the standards of the day) outfits on some of the dancers

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  6. Isabella Bradford/Susan Holloway ScottJuly 5, 2013 at 12:38 PM

    Glad everyone is enjoying this! Seemed perfect for a holiday weekend.

    Blathering, I can't say for sure where these clips came from - but the mainstream movies were pretty racy. The most famous flapper movie, "Our Dancing Daughters", starring a very young Joan Crawford, not only featured scanty costumes, but this famous opening of the heroine dancing even as she put on her ruffled panties:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cMbC1Bem0k

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  7. ZipZipJuly 6, 2013 at 10:24 AM

    Oh my, started smiling broadly in spite of myself, and could feel my heart laughing. What a great clip!

    Time to learn the Charleston: from the state of the dancer's legs you have to know it was great exercise, too.

    Very best,

    Natalie

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  8. UnknownJuly 7, 2013 at 6:57 AM

    Fantastic clip - I love everything you post.
    Laurie

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  9. Karen AnneJuly 7, 2013 at 10:52 AM

    The Hollywood Production Code came into being in the early 1930s and movies became much more boring, uh, acceptable :-)

    I look at the movies from the first half of the last century, and think those people really knew how to live and dress.

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