| IN GREAT GRANDMA’S DAYS Regency style dancers perform a minuet in a little garde | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5451 |
| Catalog #: | 51476 | |
| Clip Number: | 51476-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 31/52 | |
| Timecode: | 01.33.16 - 01.35.21 | |
| Location: | Dublin, Ireland | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Ballroom HISTORICAL RECREATIONS: 18th Century (1700) LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Ireland (Eire), Dublin | |
| Description: | “In Great Grandma’s Days. Miss Harkness and her party of Minuet Dancers who took part in the great Period Ball at the RDS (Royal Dublin Society) Bi-Centenary Celebrations.” Dublin, Eire, Southern Ireland, Republic of Ireland. Top view of group of men and women dressed in regency period / 18th Century costume walk across a lawn. The group perform a dainty minuet dance of the correct style for the period. MS of four men in costume sitting at a table smoking long pipe and drinking. A boy stands - blacked up to represent an African slave - and looks on. More shots of the dancing. The whole dance is very dignified. Shot of group of the men and women chatting. The women use their fans. Lots of bowing and kneeling and kissing of hands. More shots of dancing. MS of three costumed women fanning themselves. More shots of dancing. | |
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