Thank you, Max. You know how I love looking at dancing through history, especially during WW2 and in countries outside the U.S. This is great. I'm saving this.
As you say, Rupert, ... Priceless!!!... what happens to all dances once the Ballroom Gestapo gets their hands on choriography!.. It destroys all the soul and immediancy of dance!.. and makes it dull ,predictable and sequenced !..
That's not actually true here. This is simply to demonstrate it to an audience. And in any case once they get going , they are swinging it ,though at a moderated pace-which is the point. (They couldn't go mad like in contests or injuries occurred so it was often banned) And later in this film when the ballroom crowds come on on the floor -its a lot more swinging but it is not so in focus which is a pity. I am a dancer so could pick out some nifty movers across that floor and interestingl as it looked to be largely British dancers. It is always the cliche that the Yanks arrived and put the British soldier out of place in a dance with his style and swing ability. Yet I've seen vintage movies with Brit soldiers jiving competently!
I always loved all this stuff, jiving, and everything. I used to dress in Teddy girl stuff when I was an early teen. It's just a shame that my dad was such a monster and a child molester that he ne
What do you call the country that you don't call America? The United States is not the right name because other countries also are made from states that united, for example, the United States of Mexico.
America is two, or possibly three continents (*if you count sub-continents); North, South and Central*. But America is also a colloquialism for a country, officially known as The United States of America. Now that we've got the pedanticism and semantics out of the way, let's all just carry on and enjoy RU-vid.
