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World Dances, The Pt. 4 of 4

Reel Number: 220944-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1953

Country: England,United Kingdom,USA

Location: avon,London,New York City,stratford,upon

TC Begins: 11:33:45

TC Ends: 11:53:02

Duration: 00:19:17

The World Dances Pt. 4 o 4 Fenneman SOF re Polish dances & ballets. Dancers in arena perform the Mazurka - men w/ peacock feathers in caps Edmund Szablowski’s Gandy Dancers. 11:37:06 England montage: Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, traffic in Piccadilly Circus; Changing of the Guard; Queen Elizabeth II “mingles w/ her people”. Stratford-upon-Avon - group of people outdoors wearing medieval ? dress w/ VO “England’s folklore is best expressed by...Shakespearean actors”. 11:37:53 Man sings Greensleeves to women in gowns while playing guitar ??. 11:39:26 Dancers in arena perform unid. English Morris (?) dance - country dancing / barn dancing. Audrey Share’s English Folk Dance Group. 11:41:28 Fenneman SOF re influence of all these international dances on American dances. 11:41:53 New York City skyline from Hudson River; skyscrapers, elevated railroad, traffic, yellow cabs, pedestrians, PoV across Brooklyn Bridge; moving light & neon lights at night; Rockefeller Center skyscrapers - Central Park. 11:43:08 Merle Travis sings ‘What Makes a Man a Rambling Man?’ w/ guitar while boy shines his shoes & looks perplexed - woman on park bench watches. 11:44:46 America montage: passenger train runby w/ cutaways to Niagara Falls, open farmland, Grand Canyon, cattle grazing. 11:45:16 Carolina Cotton in farmyard setting sings & yodels, man on guitar w/ cowboy hat. 11:47:13 Bob Osgood’s Square Dance Group perform country dance in ranch setting w/ bunting & US flags. 11:50:21 Choir in arena sings ‘America the Beautiful’ while scenes from all the World Dances are superimposed. End credits. Good vibrant colour. Tacky / Kitsch; Oddities; Stereotypes; Folk Dancing; Folk Music; US World View;

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