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This Was Yesterday - Reel 2 (1955)

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This reel shows dance crazes and music hall actors. This copy has been transferred from print - neg transferred on tape PM2869 - neg version will be better quality. Pathe retrospective. This reel shows dance crazes and music hall actors. Library material used should be found in more complete versions elsewhere. Reel 2. 01:14:42 Narrator talks of the “Jazz age“ and we see couples doing the Charleston in the Pathe Studio. C/Us of girls' legs dancing. One of the dancers kicks another by accident and the two couples stop dancing; the wounded girl grabs her injured leg. The Pictorial intertitles give dancers advice on how to dance properly with a demonstration. Extract from a pantomime at the Palladium follows - characters including “the dish and the spoon“, a pantomime cow and Felix the Cat do a Charleston. Clarice Mayne is amongst the cast. 01:16:01 Santos Casani and Jose Lennard (sp?) demonstrate the Charleston on top of a taxi which drives down Kingsway in London. Various shots of them dancin

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