// mail.inc disabled due to spam abuse Charleston-Film http://walternelson.com/dr/taxonomy/term/129/all en Dancing in a London Dive 1929 http://walternelson.com/dr/film-piccadilly <p>Dancing in a London dive from the Anna May Wong film "Piccadilly" from 1929.</p> <p>It opens with a bunch of women doing a Charleston and then moves to general, lively social dancing to include a scandalous inter-racial dance. I cut the bit where the landlord throws the black man out as it detracted from my general purpose of showing the dances of the time.</p> <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TnaGP4rzFkw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> 1920s Charleston-Film Foxtrot-Film Walter's Random Musings Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:52:20 -0700 walter 2802 at http://walternelson.com/dr Dance Scenes from "Nickel Hopper" - 1926 http://walternelson.com/dr/film-nickelhopper <p>A satirical look at the social dance scene (in a dance hall) at the height of the Charleston craze. Mabel endures a parade of the worst dance partners imaginable. That's Oliver Hardy at the drums. The big bo-hunk who deserves a belt in the beezer is Boris Karloff. Here's my source for the footage:<br /> <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheNickel-hopper1926" title="https://archive.org/details/TheNickel-hopper1926">https://archive.org/details/TheNickel-hopper1926</a></p> <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HNmr6ygCCnQ?list=PLmA2R7fvaoP7m67UECfVwdFYQchfo8tv2" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> http://walternelson.com/dr/film-nickelhopper#comments 1920s Charleston-Film Foxtrot-Film Fri, 25 Dec 2015 11:28:41 -0700 walter 2402 at http://walternelson.com/dr