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DANCE FOOTAGE

The following items are available immediately on master material

Mexican wave

221054 06:10:56 - 06:21:27 1942 B/W SIL

[Fascist Spain: Military Review & Falange Festival - Columbus Monuments & Scenic Tour]
Including:
06:13:15 - 06:15:11 Phalange Festival at the Madrid Stadium: people marching into packed stadium w/ flags; front shot crowds - some attempt Mexican wave? Three flags of New Spain flying from flagposts - flag of Falange [Fascist ruling party], national banner & flag of the Roquestes [?]. HA shots crowds of Spanish children in stadium - carrying drums & flags - youth festival.

Masai or Watusi warriors

220996 09:07:26 - 09:20:25 1909 b/w Si

TR In Africa [1909, 2]
According to the TR collection, fragments of Theodore Roosevelt in Africa were released on 18Apr1910. All probably filmed in British East Africa (Kenya) in 1909.
INCLUDING:

TITLE: 'Dance of the Rainmaker': Man in grass skirt dances with four drummers and other Africans watching.
09:13:03 TITLE 'Col. Roosevelt and his party reviewing Manoeuvres': Men in colonial clothes and hats from back amidst Africans watching Kikuyu and / or Masai men with spears and shields dancing. Child with head dress dancing w/ crowd watching. Group dancing. TR and other men in colonial hats watching dance. Some painted faces and masks.
TITLE: 'Zulu Belles': Probably Masai women walking across field in double file. Masai women crowd in a bustle.
TITLE “Zulu War Dance and ceremony in Honor of Col. Roosevelt’s Visit to Africa”: Kikuyu and / or Masai warriors dancing in line towards camera with shields and spears. Other dancers in large group.

220997 10:13:46 - 10:22:07 1909 b/w Si

TR in Africa, 1909
INCLUDING:

Kikuyu and / or Masai tribesmen dancing w/ shields and spears, some masks. TR's party watches, many with Colonial hats.
10:14:21 Dancers pose behind shields.
10:18:47 Probably Kikuyu dance performed in TR's honour at Nyeri in August with a small number of Masai participating.
10:19:14 Large group of women (Masai?) forming circle and men (Kikuyu?) pass through. Men raise spears and shields. Posing in masks with spears and shields. Pan over group as TR and party watch.
10:21:51 TR and other Whites inspecting shotgun.
10:21:57 African boy dances with head dress.

221042 14:31:35 - 14:40:28 1968 COL SD

Africa East and West [Part 3 of 3]
Pan Am film - travelogue.
INCLUDING:
14:36:10 Masai people singing & dancing, herding cattle, boy taught to use spear by elder. African men at work: in guard clothes, at machine, adults in classroom, painting, sculpting. Children playing. Modern university buildings. Aerial harbour logging yard, city.
14:39:36

Indian

220686 02:07:31 - 02:11:37 1913 b/w Si

Hopi Indians Dance For Theodore Roosevelt at Walpi, Arizona, 1913
Indians in traditional costume marching in line in a circle in front of spectators in cowboy clothes. Large rock in middle. Dancing in various groups.
Audience sitting on various levels of adobe dwellings with TR and sons Archie and Quentin and cousin Nicholas Roosevelt comparing suntans.

220689 00:00:09 - 00:09:58 1942 COL SD

Inside Tibet [part 1/4]
INCLUDING:
00:05:47 British Indian troops form guard of honour for travellers. Wedding party dressed in traditional clothing on its way to India. Honour guard present arms and Union Jack flag. Mule train passes through small village. Mule train laden with wool traveling to India.
00:07:20 Reaching Gyantse, the last British outpost, party met by Sepoi mounted infantry. American and British flags raised together. Major ? and Tibetan VIPs welcome group. Native officials present gifts - mostly of food. Tibetans attend reception at home of British trade agent.
00:08:29 Natives blow ceremonial horns at monastery. Ceremonial pageant - folk dancing. Elaborate headdresses and clothes. Abbot of monastery. Skeleton dancers. Dance of the lion spirit. Dwarfs representing the friendly spirits of India.

220689 00:09:59 - 00:19:59 1942 COL SD

Inside Tibet [part 2/4]
INCLUDING:
00:17:36 Farm labourers - primitive methods. Kumbah? dancers - wandering troupe. Lot of whirling - very energetic folk dance - entertainment. Dancers compete with each other - some look like break dancers!

LN 505-052 23:44:40 - 23:55:54 194? B/W SD 1

Highlands of the Andes (Peru) Part 2 of 2 International Film Foundation
Dir. by Jules Bucher
Cattle on Lake Titicaca fed lake grass from reed boats. Villages along hillside, men threshing grain from straw. Woman in felt hat, boys in felt hats. Throwing grain into wind to get seeds. Potatoes spread out after freezing to make chuno. Symbols for store signs: cornhusks, baskets. Dried manure gathered for fuel.
23:47:4? Holy Day celebration w/ religious statues, priest and procession. Drummers & music. Conch shells & flutes played & blown. Dancers.
23:49:??

221227 12:00:06- 12:12:47 1940s COL SD 1

Pan-American Highway [Part 1 of 2]

INCLUDING:
[Main & end titles missing.] Labourers prepare ground for new road construction. Farmer

threshing rice using old technique - near Mexican border? Oxen pulling carts along rural road in Costa Rica; San Jose street scenes, more oxen; coffee unloaded; VO praising Costa Rica. Route of Pan American Highway thru difficult terrain. Bridge into Panama. Native Indians pose in village. Route of highway along Pacific west coast. Dancers in devil masks perform religious ceremony in village. Bananas harvested in Panama, carried on mules.
12:02:38

221227 12:12:47 - 12:25:54 1940s COL SD

Pan-American Highway [Part 2 of 2]

INCLUDING:
Indian herdsman w/ llama herd on hillside in Peru - uses woollen sling to control flock. CU wild Vicunya, cousin of llama. High shot of Highway as it descends to Lake Titicaca. Native dancers in colourful capes on lakeshore. Pan across Lake Titicaca - 12,500ft above sea level
12:14:37

221140 01:07:05 - 01:07:56 1930 b/w Si

[Indian Men Perform Ritual Indian Dances and Jump through Tight Hoops] 24May30
Male dancers in ethnic costume perform traditional ritual dance; slow-motion sequence of dancing; Performers in different costume jump through hoop, spectators gathered in background, some with musical instruments, children sit at their feet; CU performer illustrates how the hoop is so small it won’t fit over his shoulders; he runs and jumps through it towards camera.

LN 400-278 16:00:05 - 16:09:10 1951 COL SD 1

Indian Dances
American Museum of Natural History
Diorama w/ birds, animals.
16:00:58 Actual footage of woods, autumn colors & pov along trail thru woods. Clearing.
16:01:55 Sunrise, Sharp tailed grouse doing courtship dance, Males spreading wings & strutting while females watch.\
16:03:00 Indian dancers imitating movements in courtship dance. Single indian dancing in spotlight against black background. CU of moccasins, MS. Indian singer.
16:04:07 Flight of American Eagle circling, diving. Iriquois sacred feather dance performed by single dancer wearing large feather on head & with feathers & sticks in hands. Picks up feathers in mouth from floor.
16:05:42 LS of southwest desert. Deer in diorama. Indian dancing w/ two sticks wearing antlers & mask doing Deer Dance.
16:06:54 Buffalo in diorama. Indian doing buffalo hunting dance.
16:08:22 Autumn foliage & forest leaves. The End.

LN 400-214 22:49:35 - 23:00:30 1960s B/W SD 1

Bright Flame Pt. 1 of 3
Prod. by Commission On Missionary Education of the National Council of Churches
Fireworks exploding in India w/ buildings outlined in lights during Diwali festival of Good over Evil & Prosperity. CU people watching; kids w/ sparklers. Woman making offering of candles, oil & food. Bowing to painting.
22:51:34 Pouring steel. Taj Mahal. Dancers, snake charmers, automobile & truck factory. Camel, dam, villages. Street scenes, crowds & bicycle rickshaws.
22:52:41

Thai

220708 05:38:43 - 05:48:37 1950s ? B/W SIL

Native Street in Asia

Including:
Back street in shanty town - washing hanging over street, children. Dragon dance watched by children. Kids playing drums.
05:40:02

Russian Ballet

221037 03:00:03 - 03:04:33 1946 ? b/w SD

Montgomery in Russia
[Sd.] Montgomery and others in ballroom of palace. Montgomery with Stalin seated for photcall. Montgomery wearing Russian cossack hat and coat with Stalin - joined by Molotov. Staff car pulls up in snow - Montgomery out wearing huge fur coat - with Russian officers enters military academy - points to sign in Russian above entrance. LS academy building - typical Eastern Bloc architecture.
03:01:27 EXT Opera House; INT Montgomery in uniform up steps with Russian officers on visit to see Profokiev ballet Romeo and Juliet; party into royal box. Curtains part - VS ballet performance w/ first Soviet prima ballerina Galina Ulanova. Applause.
03:03:06 Staff car pulls up in snowy square - Monty out in fur coat. Russian buildings - churches w/ elaborate towers and pinnacles - sightseeing - group along in snow - into cathedral and out again. Party into CCCP HQ building - reception inside - empty ballroom w/ chandeliers - Montgomery w/ medals on uniform.

220755 19:08:02 - 19:18:00 1920s - 1950s B/W SIL

Various - Russia related - various places and dates
Including:
19:16:38 Montgomery in Russia . Interior Kremlin Stalin seated with Churchill and Harriman. Evening reception - Molotov and wife - VIPs arrive for Bolshoi ballet ? VIPs in box watching performance.


220866 12:14:29 - 12:22:20 1943 B/W Sd/Sil

[USO Ballet Russe - Shipping films]
Military vehicles past entrance checkpoint at Fort Hancock. CU sign 'Fort Hancock'. Servicemen queuing up to see Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance. - poster - USO. Ballet Russe dance on stage - Ballet 'Prince Igor with Franz Allers conducting traditional Russian? or Caucasian? dance; harem women with veils dance. Much twirling.
Good LS audience reactions.

220932 23:15:20 - 23:16:12 1959 B/W SD

News In Brief: New York
Queues around block outside NY Metropolitan Opera House for standee tickets on sold-out first night of Bolshoi Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet. Arrivals of UN Sec. Gen. Hammarskjold, Russian Ambassador Menjukov and Elsa Maxwell. Curtain up on stage after performance, dancers bow.

LN 400-261 03:53:24 - 04:02:31 1960 B/W SD

Story of Soviet Schools Pt. 2 of 3
03:53:24 Students in classroom use special mechanical devices; teacher at control panel pushes buttons to check each student’s knowledge. CU machinery shows pupils their marks; CU teacher at the control panel.
03:54:23 Boy tests remote control car he built; crafts class & constructing models of cars, ships; boys try submarine & powered model boats in pool; fly model airplanes, boy takes pictures as other kids fire rocket.
03:55:55 Children in the physical activity class, jump on the trampoline; perform on high bar, horse, young girls in ballet & gymnastics class.
03:56:34

221257 01:04:48 - 01:10:32 1972 COL SD

Time For Peace - Part Three - May 1972
Including:
01:09:04 Moscow state university,exterior and interior, students. Visit to Bolshoi theatre school, young students perform ballet. Young dancer presents doll to Pat Nixon.
01:09:57 Chandelier, President and Mrs Nixon with Russian hosts attend Bolshoi ballet. Dancers perform Swan Lake slight scratches on performance

The Conga

220304 05:00:03 - 05:02:23 1947 ? B/W Sd

Castle Films Presents The Music Album - South of the Border songs
Pan-Americonga featuring Rita Rio with Allen Baldwin and Theodore. Song performed on stage set cafeteria - dancing conga.

220474 14:09:47 - 14:10:46 1945 - 1946 B/W SD

Lew Lehr Hails The New Year
New York
Times Square celebrations at night. Conga line outside Carnival Club. CU champagne bottle pops open & glass poured. Top shot interior club. Lew Lehr with party hat and garlands round neck blows into horn. Ice-skating act with man twirling woman round and round holding her by legs- acrobatic. Couples dancing and kissing.

221089 17:30:37 - 17:31:57 1932 B/W SIL

Gory Finish Marks Annual Frosh-Soph Interclass Ruckus
Brooklyn freshmen initiation rites & fights - groups of young men in field fighting and ripping clothes off one another, ending up naked or in underwear, then forming conga line. Clothes strewn round empty field.

220947 16:08:59 - 16:11:37 1942 B/W SD

Clap, Clap For Rhythm (Chiapenecas)
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Minoco Prods.
The Stuart Sisters sing in circus tent setting w/ cuts to woman dancing as man in circus compere suit holds up signs w/ 'La Conga', 'Rhumba', 'Jitterbug'; man looks at dancer wiggling behind and grins.

220982 17:28:32 - 17:35:05 1945 COL SIL

[VE Day Celebrations, London]
Recorded by 8th AAF Combat Cam.
EXT Westminster Cathedral; crowds leaving, London buses pass by. Crowds on street. MCU Big Ben clockface, 3pm. LS Big Ben and Houses of Parliament, bus passes in FG. US, British, French and Russian flags fly over rooftop, pan down to crowds packed into Piccadilly Circus?; ‘Don Ameche in “The Fifth Chance’ neon sign over cinema.
17:30:12 Crowds dance; march passes through crowd w/ flags; US and British servicemen in crowd; sailors. Women waltz in couples; line of people dance conga through crowd.
17:31:52


220953 05:45:55 - 05:48:44 194? B/W SD

[Unid. w/o title: Conga Dance] w/ June Taylor Girls
Women off gang way dancing, take off coats and dance in conga line. Solo dancer in black dress comes out, does acrobatic dance in front of them. Anoher in more Latin dress comes out and shakes, twirls and dances solo.
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!

221240 15:13:05 - 15:16:06 1942 B/W SD

Ella ('Ela-E')
w/ Nino and Lenora & Noro Morales & His Orchestra
Minoco Prods.
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Women dressed in various Hispanic outfits (Mexican, Cuban, Spanish) dance in ranch or pueblo seting as Noro Morales & his Orchestra play instrumental number in Mexican hats; dancers conga or rhumba around couples seated at tables & wave baskets of fruit; CU women's legs. 'Nino and Lenora' perform bizarre rhumba-type dance in frilly costumes. Drunk at bar teases couple at table; sprays soda syphon (seltzer bottle) at woman; she then sprays herself & turns it on him.

LN 504-137 03:25:44 - 03:28:23 1942 B/W sd

There's A Pampas Moon On The Campus (missing title)
w/ Diana Del Rio
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Girl singing to two college guys in cafe w/ university decorations. Dances around tables. Rhumba-like Latin dancing. All get up, dance conga line in slow rhumba style. Moustached Professor shows up in cap & gown; woman sings to him & he starts to dance. Deep bend at end.

Cossacks

221075 06:51:37 - 06:57:38 1945 B/W Sd

Songs of Collective Farms [Reel 6 of 6]
Youth performance at Bolshoi ? - dancers in folk / national dress. Young Cossack dancers. Women clap as accordionist dances. Wide shots of huge stage packed w/ performers & auditorium w/ boxes. Shots collective farming / agriculture over music - combine harvesters inc. aerial shot - truck convoy.

220544 03:52:31 - 04:03:20 1941 - 1944? B/W SD

Why We Fight - Battle of Russia, The - Part Two Reel 3
re Siege of Leningrad
Aftermath of blitz, Leningrad is besieged. Women remove rubble from streets. Dead children. Dead elephant from Leningrad zoo. Winter siege. Defences are manned. Food is rationed; people dig holes in street for water. Shelling of Leningrad as shell manufacture continues. Supplies are brought in by truck, tractor, and railroad across frozen Lake Ladoga. Winter snows blanket the city. Nazi planes bomb trucks on the lake. Spring thaw. Children play in the sunshine. Cossack dancing. German prisoners enter the city.

220679 15:11:21 - 15:24:16 1918 + 1930s B/W SIL

[WWI - Newsreel Excerpts - Armistice]
Including:
15:18:17 Troops ? German POWs ? Russian troops. Bread handed over fence to prisoners. Women pouring soup. Cossack dancers. Top shot from window of street riot - troops [NARA card says Italian workers seize factory].
15:20:28.


221075 06:34:15 - 06:35:45 1947 B/W SD

Sovetskaia Ukraina [Reel 5 Partial]
Documentary on the Soviet effort to rebuild industry, agriculture, housing and culture in the Ukraine.
Cossack dancers perform before audience. Huge stadium youth parade in Kiev - marching & banners - watched by Kaganovich & Khruschev, then Chairman of Ukrainian Council of Ministers.

221147 02:14:48 - 02:25:05 1947 B/W SD

Songs of Collective Farms [Reel 1 of 6]
[Cultural documentary on patriotic Russian music, dance and dress, with picturesque scenes of the country. Emphasizes the physical beauty of the land and the kinship among the people.]
Reel 1: A choral group sings folk songs as man plays accordion - at the Bolshoi ?; cutaways to picturesque rural scenes. Large male choir in Cossack uniform sings w/ scenes of wheatfields & combine harvester; Cossacks on horseback; MCU pan across men singing.
02:19:14 Men & women dance in traditional dress in village. Accordionist on stage. Cossacks dance on stage as drummers play - one Cossack performs solo inc. dances on tiptoes. Old Mongolian ? man plays instrument while sitting cross-legged w/ carved animals 'dancing' in front. Audience applauds.
02:23:29 Rural scenes - sheep herders - remote corners of USSR - Oriental music performed on stage w/ woman singing.
02:24:25 Another regional dance performed - women in embroidered outfits, men in fur hats.

221147 02:25:15 - 02:31:30 1947 B/W SD

Songs of Collective Farms [Reel 6 of 6]
Youth performance at Bolshoi ? - dancers in folk / national dress perform Russian dance. Young Cossack dancers. Women clap as accordionist dances. Wide shots of huge stage packed w/ performers & auditorium w/ boxes.
02:30:46 Shots collective farming / agriculture over music - combine harvesters inc. aerial shot - truck convoy.

221181 15:39:03 - 15:48:03 1947 B/W SD

Soviet Newsreel (1947)
Narrated by Robert Magidoff
Including:
15:45:48 Folk Dance of the Ural Cossacks performed by amateur dance group of Chelyabinsky Steel Works. Large stage six costumed couples dance in front of large orchestra. Swords, kicking, jumping, acrobatic, happy.

221205 18:00:02 - 18:07:10 1947 B/W SD

[October Revolution, 30th Anniversary Parade 1947]
Kids carried on shoulders of military; civilians past podium all smiles. Good CUs Beria, Voroshilov & Molotov smiling & waving. High angles & ground shots parade in Red Square. People waving & dancing, playing accordions; applauding VIP & civilians. Good posters of Stalin on balloons (not yet released). Loudspeaker calling to people.
18:01:43 Dusk & buildings w/ lights outlining. Night - Floodlit Kremlin and Moscow buildings w/ neon lights turned on; bridges over river & some traffic. Sign; 'The October Revolution' in lights. Cars & people thru streets - searchlights or klieg lights. Buses & traffic. Waltzing, balloons; dancing at Palace of Culture & the Great Theatre. Exteriors & interiors. CUs couples dancing (GOOD) CU accordions.
18:04:28 People into New Theater of Stalin's district, sign on top: Long Live Great Stalin. Dance show w/ Cossacks & audience. Artillery guns fired in salute; more lights & fireworks of Hammer and Sickle & Lenin & Stalin portraits etc. The End.


LN 504-148 19:00:47 - 19:03:47 1942 B/W SD

Bottoms Up
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Minoco Prods. Dir. Robert R Snody W/ 'The Globe Trotters'.
Men in military uniform drinking at bar w/ women, all singing 'Bottoms Up'
Montage of them in stereotyped costume drinking around the world - segments separated by raised glasses superimposed onto spinning globe. British; 3 Chinese women singing; Sea captain in Hawaii w/ Hula girls singing on beach; Argentina & others; cafe w/ Cuban rhumba dancers; Russian Cossacks & dancers; Irish w/ beer wagon. USA singing 'Down the hatch!' etc.

Hawaii / Hula Dancers

220709
00:01:13 - 00:30:08 col Sd

The World was There - Press Coverage of Space Missions
Including:
Mercury news centre - reporters - press:
Astronaut Cooper suits up - pre launch preps - press and reporters: Good shots cameras: Studio gallery : 2" Quad videotape machines: Launch - press watching looking up: Newspaper presses - paper boy - Rescue ship: New York skyline at night - morning woman takes milk and newspaper off doorstep: MOCR - outdoor press briefing re problem in flight: MOCR: Shots on board rescue ship - capsule on parachute - pick up - frogmen into water - capsule lifted aboard - Carpenter out:
Teletypewriter - Cooper arrives in Hawaii - hula dancers: Motorcade - crowds: Gordon Cooper arrives Patrick AFB with wife: Press and photographers: Motorcade open top car: Cooper at press conference : Cooper addresses Congress: Gemini gantrys: Newspapers sold on street:

220293 12:28:45 - 12:29:42 1959 B/W Sd

Aloha Hawaii - Islanders Celebrate Long-Sought Statehood
Crowds at rally as Hawaii becomes 50th State - flags handed out - hula dancers.

220702 19:21:00 - 19:30:49 1941 B/W Si D

ecember 7th Outtakes
Amphib. plane ( seaplane ) dropping torpedo. PBY (?) dropping torpedo. Jap planes attacking ship (actual). Sailors below deck to surface w/ explosion (v. staged). Dive bomber dropping bomb. Wreckage. Planes w/ Japanese markers in flight. Multi takes of plane dropping torpedo. US plane landing at Hawaii past foliage & bunker. Hula dancer w/ people watching. Cherry blossoms. Battleship putting out from dock. Planes on carrier flight deck launched; wings unfolded & locked into place. Fleet w/ troop ships underway. Guarded ship tied up at Pearl Harbor close to shore. Wreckage in harbor / harbour.

221000 14:03:08 - 14:13:49 1942 B/W Si

Pearl Harbor Activities

Including:
MS mainmast of the Battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) being removed from ship & put aboard a floating crane. MS off-duty sailors, one in plaster cast, watch Hula girls; older Hawaiian woman dances closely with sailor, laughs as she teaches him to hula; Hawaiian band plays. MS ferries from Ford Island land at Pearl Harbor.
14:05:15

221000 14:14:00 - 14:22:48 1942 B/W Si

Pearl Harbor Activities
VS removal of the mainmast from wreckage of the Battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) in Pearl Harbor. US flag flying through palm trees.
14:15:55 MS Hula girls giving hula show to sailors and officers. MS hospital patients and nurses on sidelines watch the dancing show & applaud. Young girl in “grass“ skirt doing hula. More dancing - older Hawaiian woman teaching sailor to dance hula. Vars CUs Hawaiian band, American patients and nurses, some patients on crutches. Good.
14:21:50 LS plane comes in to land beyond naval base buildings.
14:22:21 LS ferry from Ford Island to Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor passes R-L loaded down with sailors.

220704 00:15:47 - 00:19:48 1920s B/W Si

Nines-And-A-Half, Dealing With Hosiery
Japanese dancers outdoors in Hawaii. Silk manufacturing winding onto bobbins. 11 bobbins wound onto core as single thread. Automatic machines working. 6319 needles of loom working. Cloth coming off machine as stockings. Foot attached to leg of sock. Women stitching. Inspecting at long table. Hole shown. Unraveling flawed stockings for the silk. stretching over forms. Mating & boxing the finished socks.

220709 07:20:20 - 07:29:03 1963 COL SD

World Was There, The - Part 3 of 3
re Project Mercury
INCLUDING:

New York City skyline at night and at dawn. Collecting milk and newspaper on doorstep. Control centre & astronaut Gordon Cooper in capsule. News briefing by flight manager. Film cameraman. TV screen w/ B/W rocket icon. VO re flight problems - reporters listening; men on deck rescue ship. CU loudspeaker. Spacecraft falls in sea w/ parachute and helicopter rescue; capsule pulled out of water. and Cooper out. Letter being typed re Cooper looking forward to seeing his family again. Cooper out of helicopter in Hawaii and mobbed by reporters. Hawaiian hula dancers. Cooper and wife in motorcade. Cooper cheered.
07:24:32

220768 00:48:13 - 00:58:33 1954 B/W SIL

French Troops Returning To France From Indo-china, Hickam AFB, Hawaii
Red Cross hostesses serve refreshments to Frenchmen wearing lei. Plane brings in wounded. Frenchmen, including the wounded, are greeted by hula girls and decorated with leis as they come off plane. One man is very happy and dances with a group of hula girls. American officers and an official greet the man. Litter cases are put into ambo-bus. An old woman on the field talks to Frenchman in bus. Buses with the Frenchmen aboard leave the airfield.

221013 06:14:54 - 06:24:18 1963 COL SIL

Astronaut Gordon Cooper's Arrival at Hickam AFB
INCLUDING:
06:20:16 Hula dancers perform outside Iolani Palace; arrival of Astronaut Cooper. Cooper and wife leave car amongst the crowd; pose on steps w/ Hawaiian flag.
06:22:02

221022 19:19:06 - 19:30:15 1938 B/W SIL

[Japan - Kabuki, Newsreel, Takarazuka Theatres]
Including:
19:21:15 Takarazuka Theatre - curtain up & dancers in precision dance in front of stylized set. Women in checkered skirts & rocket-like dancing. Pair in print dresses singing duet. LS entire troupe w/ Hawaiian-like setting. Young girls dancing in front of 'Marriage' sign. People exiting some appear to wear masks.
19:23:17 Dancing in Dutch-like setting w/ Swastika on stage banner. Dancers make Fascist salute against Italian-like backdrop. Ext. Kabuki theatre w/ people & umbrellas in rain. Daytime same, in sunshine.
19:25:18 Newsreel theatre / Cinema w/ Betty Boop poster. LS of city buildings, traffic.
19:26:15 People in front of movie screen, applauding, seen from behind w/o pix on screen. MCUs of audience from in front at end of row; applaud.
19:28:44 CU of Takarazuka dancers & Italian? flags. MCU twirling umbrellas each painted with Swastika, Italian symbol & Rising Sun. Cinema audience from behind, nothing on screen.

220947 16:43:45 - 16:46:25 1946 B/W SD

Poi My Boy
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Soundies/RCM Prods. #1278 / 646-1-73; Prod. Ben Hirsch; Dir. David Gould
Gloria King sings 'Poi My Boy' to diners in Hawaiian restaurant setting w/ band. Kuaana's Dream Islanders hula girl dancers perform; Bernie Kaai at table joins in song.

220947 16:46:31 - 16:49:08 194? B/W SD

Hilo Hattie
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
RCM Prods; Prod. Sam Coslow; Dir. Josef Berne
Three hula girls dance and sing in front of sailors at dancehall bar; optical shot Hawaiian? Princess Aloha hula dances in fishbowl; Princess Aloha dances on table w/ sailor, hula girls dance w/ other sailors; all dance together; CU Andy Iona and his Orchestra. Sailors watch Princess Aloha in fishtank.

220953 04:44:29 - 04:46:55 194? B/W SD

Imua Ailuni
w/ Lani McIntyre 2043-1-33 Soundies presents. Outdoor set of Hawaii and at least seven piece band. Women hula dancers with bamboo or reed instruments keeping time & singing. Palm & banana trees behind.
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!

220953 04:46:56 - 04:49:38 1944 B/W SD

Sweet Leilani w/ Harold Richards, Jeanne Claire & the Sande Dancers
Produced & directed by William Forest Crouch Set on shipboard w/ hula dancer and people watching, other women sitting at feet and get up and dance - largely with arms. Four women silhouetted against backdrop. Couple sings w/ silhouettes on backdrops behind. Guy in swimming trunks dancing jitterbugging with women on sand.
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!

220953 04:57:36 - 05:00:21 194? B/W SD

My Little Grass Shack w/ Princess Aloha & Charles Dorn
R.C.M. Prods. / Produced by Sam Coslow / Directed by Josef Berne
Ugly guy playing ukulele singing as two uglier sailors watch. He then alone and dancer w/ two flowers in hair dances up, he yodels as she lays against him. Very surreal set. He watches her dancing and leads him off in grass shirt by very large lei. He buries head in sand; back to singing to two sailors on shipboard. They flip him out of hammock.
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!

LN 504-144 11:34:39 - 11:37:15 1940s B/W SD

Hawaiian War Chant
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
VS woman in naval-style pantsuit sings upbeat song in tropical nightclub setting w/ people sitting watching from tables. Hawaiian men in trunks w/ hula girls in BG. Hula girls dance in glittery skirts. Singer yodels.

LN 504-146 16:11:28 - 16:13:58 1943 B/W SD

Sweet Hawaiian Dreams
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Prod. Joe Bonica
Women in tropical beach hut setting; shirtless man w/ tiki-style skirt sings ‘Sweet Hawaiian Dreams’ to Hawaiian girl. Silhouette of girl superimposed against clouds. Hawaiian girl does slow hula dance on beach, other women starlets imitate badly; girl sings w/ man; optical moon w/ face winking.

LN 504-148 19:00:47 - 19:03:47 1942 B/W SD

Bottoms Up
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Minoco Prods. Dir. Robert R Snody W/ 'The Globe Trotters'.
Men in military uniform drinking at bar w/ women, all singing 'Bottoms Up'
Montage of them in stereotyped costume drinking around the world - segments separated by raised glasses superimposed onto spinning globe. British; 3 Chinese women singing; Sea captain in Hawaii w/ Hula girls singing on beach; Argentina & others; cafe w/ Cuban rhumba dancers; Russian Cossacks & dancers; Irish w/ beer wagon. USA singing “Down the hatch!” etc.

LN 504-136 01:03:34 - 01:06:31 194? B/W SD

Ana Lani
Prod & Dir. by Arthur Leonard; Assoc. Prod. Dick Hyland. Ray Kinney & Orch. w/ Aloha Maids.
B1-40-7
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Band in very loud hawaiian shirts playing guitars, ukulele & steel guitar with hula dancers in front. Full orchestra with electric organ, trumpets, etc. Hula dancers kneeling & dancing in place in very glittery skirts.. Orchestra leader Ray Kinney in plain white suit.

221233 01:02:24 - 01:05:12 194? B/W SD

Sophisticated Hula w/ Paul Page (missing title)
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Page stands behind Hawaiian guitar player & a steel guitar player. Six non-Hawaiian dancers in synthetic grass skirts dancing in very poor imitation of Hula on stage in front of painted backdrop of palm trees & large moon.

Japanese

220704 00:15:47 - 00:19:48 1920s B/W Si

Nines-And-A-Half, Dealing With Hosiery
Japanese dancers outdoors in Hawaii. Silk manufacturing winding onto bobbins. 11 bobbins wound onto core as single thread. Automatic machines working. 6319 needles of loom working. Cloth coming off machine as stockings. Foot attached to leg of sock. Women stitching. Inspecting at long table. Hole shown. Unraveling flawed stockings for the silk. stretching over forms. Mating & boxing the finished socks.

220850 12:28:28 - 12:36:10 1947 B/W Si

'Life on a Japanese Farm' photographed by SCPDGHQFEC for Natural Resources Section.
Water flowing into paddy - rice growing. Man walking on water wheel for irrigation. Man clearing irrigation pipe?
12:30:00 Religious ceremony / festival at buddhist shrine. Procession - headdresses. Dancers in costumes. Men playing pipes / flutes. Family pose for cameras. Traditional dancing.
12:35:29 Fields. Farmer and wife walking in fields


221180 13:47:22 - 13:57:50 1950 B/W SIL

[Japan, Tokyo May Day Demonstration & Parade] (01May50)
Flags & banners, crowds of Japanese listening, CUs. Soviet dancers, speakers at microphones. Crowd listening, some in trees. People cheer, large moving picture crane visible.
13:49:25 Marchers parade w/ placards thru streets. People on buildings throw confetti. Stalin on placard. 13:51:04 Rally w/ band playing on stand. Japanese kids dancing on stage a la Soviet peasant dances. 13:54:15 Various people at mics. Puppet play & elaborate costumed actors - political effigies.

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