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SWINGING THE LAMBETH WALK

Rights Information
Year
1939
Reference
F3457
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1939
Reference
F3457
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
United Kingdom
Categories
Short
Duration
0:03:29
Production company
The Travel and Industrial Development Association of Great Britain and Ireland (TIDA)
Credits
Camera: Len Lye
Sound Editor: Ernst Meyer
Commissioned: The British Council
Commissioned: The Travel And Industrial Development Association

“The Lambeth Walk was a popular dance of the period with a characteristic hand gesture and a cry of “Oi!” .... Lye edited together a number of different jazz versions of the music (including Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stephane Grapelli on violin), and combined them with a variety of hand-painted and scratched images. Lye was particularly pleased with some of the guitar solos (accompanied by a vibrating horizontal line) and double-bass solos (accompanied by a foot-stomping vertical line).” - Len Lye Foundation; www.lenlyefoundation.com/films/swinging-the-lambeth-walk/; retrieved 16/09/2016.