| IT'S AN OLD PORTUGESE CUSTOM Portuguese folk dancers perform for the cameras in their dress-like outfits. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5512 |
| Catalog #: | 253809 | |
| Clip Number: | 253809-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 34/3 | |
| Timecode: | 01:25:43 - 01:26:55 | |
| Location: | London, England. | |
| Year Shot: | 1934 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Folk Dance LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London | |
| Description: | "London. It's An Old Portuguese Custom. Peasants - here for folk dancing festival - perform their famous stick dance of great antiquity - for first time outside their native village." London. Male Portuguese dancers, apparently doing this dance for the first time away from Portugal, dressed in traditional costumes walk forwards with their accompanying musicians. CU of man playing form of bagpipe. Shots of men doing traditional folk dance. Each have a stick about two feet long in each of their hands, and they perform a well-rehearsed dance involving hitting sticks, either their own sticks or the other dancers', on the beat. | |
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