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Dancing Nations
Description: A Walter Futter Travelaugh with John P. Medbury about dancing styles around the world.
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Clip #: TFA-335B
Length: 8:53
Year: 1931
Color: B/W
Sound: Sound
Library: TFA Network
Decade: 1930s
Filmmaker: Walter Futter
Region: World
Subject: Dancing
Original: 16mm
1930s, globe being spun around, American dance hall, marathon dance, couples dancing on dance floor, Africa, African tribal dances, native dances, dancers dancing in circle with arms around each others’ waists, bare chested women, male dancer jumping in middle of circle surrounded by other dancers, drummers, Indochina, dancers performing folk dances, girls seated on ground performing dance imitating paddling canoes, Ceylon, men performing folk dance as they drum in unison, man and women embracing as they rhythmically bend down to the ground and and up in unison, Kashmir, woman rotating around slowly as she dances in bare feet, woman dancing near waterfall performing intricate arm movements, Samoa, Samoan Islands, man dancing with intricate arm and foot movements accompanied by musicians, man jumping off boat and dancing, Japan, geisha / maiko performing Toryanse dance / game, Egypt, man dancing near pyramid, Alaska, inuits dancing, eskimos, Hawaii, women wearing grass skirts hula dancing, Bavaria, men and women performing traditional Bavarian dance, women twirling around, Ireland, men striking each other in the head and sticking tongues at each other accompanied by violinist, American dance hall, marathon dance, dancers feet dragging as they dance through exhaustion, man asking woman on sidelines to dance, Indian reservation, Native Americans dressed in traditional attire performing ceremonial dances, exhausted dance hall marathon dancers, men sinking down into cots, smoking shoes of dancers

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