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You're just a youngster Ray! My uncle Ray is 102!

I'm 60. My mom told me about how my grandmother taught her how to dance the Charleston in the kitchen as child in the 40's. After my mother passed about 5 yrs. ago, I told my aunt, (older than mom) that story. My aunt was delighted as she told me about how Grandma had taught her how to dance the Charleston in the kitchen years before that. This video is precious. I miss the old folks. God bless you, sir...

@@johnathandavis3693 Thank you for your kind reply Johnathan. So glad it is and has given you and your family so much happiness and memories of a kinder, gentler past.

What kind of dances did you do Ray?

What a nice memory 💕

what fun.

Adorable

Yes, 👍that's true 🙂

❤️❤️❤️

You sound like a wonderful sister to her as well. I wish you both the very best ❤

Thoroughly Modern Milley .

Shes such a marriage material

@@arsenmorph She really is. I have no idea how she hasn’t even gotten close to finding someone yet. She’s literally perfect in every way possible. Love her so much.

@@arsenmorph woah. XD. She’s not really into that kind of thing. And, while I do wish she had someone, she seems perfectly content the way she is. You seem nice, though. ☺️

I see now why my Grandfather didn't let my Mother do these dances when she was a young girl....(Im 67 if that helps)

Trying to bury the sorrow of a generation lost.

@@perfumedmanatee6235 a generation of men lost

@@NB-yu4lj what u talking about

@@bsinton World War I resulted in 40 million casualties, an entire generation lost in a number of countries in Europe. The war ended November 11, 1918, what we in the U.S. call Veterans Day, with 20 million dead and 20 million wounded split roughly 50/50 between civilians and military. The first fully mechanized killing war, WWI was known as The Great War or The World War, with no "1"; no one thought it would be followed just 20 years later with 60-75 million civilians and military killed in WWII. We are still feeling the effects of those two world wars today.

Literally, it looks like whoever choreographed it just wanted to have fun with moving their body to some music - that's it.

And it’s real dancing unlike that crip walk or twerking bs

If I could move like that, I think I would be happy.

WTF is there to be happy about.

@@I_H8_thots I'll hug you. You definitely need a hug. Whoever hurt you did you wrong, but it's going to be okay now

Me too it's just perfect enjoyment!

Wow. Thank you so much, I'm very honored!

@@JazzyFeet kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbV6nZx2yNO4qWw.html

@@JazzyFeet It's very deserved. You're brilliant. What a joy to watch you!!!

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Orlando C. Muchas gracias por el gran detalle de UNA SOLA TOMA, un solo plano. La había visto muchas veces. Pero seguí su observación y oh fascinación ! Le encontré toda la maravilla de la que usted habla en la coreografía. Y ella sabe que es el espectáculo completo. Y lo es. Maravillosamente. Como si dejara la cámara en el piso que la filmara nada más, al compás de la música. Todo fluye de ella. Ahora la disfruto doblemente. Agradecido.

If you ever get into some of the less popular "golden age" movies, you'll see a lot more freestyle moves! Especially Black ones since they didn't have as much of a budget, Black American movies of the time ended up being a free for all showcase of everyone's skill with barely a plot stringing every scene together, so you can really immerse yourself in loving the individual musicality 🤗💜

the only movie scene that comes to my mind is the swimming pool scene in "it's a wonderful life" where jimmy stewart and donna reed do the charleston and then alfalfa switzer's character opens up the gymnasium floor with a swimming pool underneath. they do a very good dance and then so funny when they fall in and all the others jumping in to join them. very memorable.

well there was a little Black Bottom which is different that the Charleston, Strictly Speaking and there was a little Susie Q in there as well! But that is 2 minutes I couldnt get even half way through! Wow she makes me feel like a clod by comparison.

​@@TahtahmesDiary I'd LOVE to watch some of the dancing you are talking about. Can you recommend any of these films, that are available to be watched on KZfaq?

It definitely has more moves amd requires more talent than the dance that their grandchildren danced -- the Hustle. 😂

I'm American and not much younger than you, and I agree. We've lost something.

Да, есть что-то в этом.

I'm from America and I really like the atmosphere of Russia now.

@@Torgo1969 sad joke

It was violent.

out of her booty.😁 i know what you all think... but yes, i can laugh about such things!

"Grove is in the heart!" Dee-Lite in 1990

That is nicely put:)

my body also make sounds

@@FMFvideos xD

Agreed.

Indeed! And it is such a rare treat to see it like this! :)

＃レコーディング音源と映像画像の魅力、＃楽曲の演奏速度最高です。＃ハッピーニューイヤー 、青空の下素敵なダンスですね。2022年も良い年になりますように願っていいます。❤️ありがとうございました😊

can you share some of your favorites? I never went looking for films that far back

She's talented !

It's actually really easy, which is why everyone knew it and it was popular.

easy ? wearing that high-heel?@@misteral9045

Любил? это что?! Любить уже перестал? что-ли???

@@user-cu8tx8yz2q Не позорься, "знаток" английского! Когда ты говоришь "мне понравилось", ты тоже, значит, имеешь в виду что-то типа "тогда нравилось, а теперь уже нет"? Двоечник...

@@user-jo9lr7yz7r расширяйте кругозор; да-да.

@@user-cu8tx8yz2q Кругозор - это знания обо всем на свете, чем больше предметов знаешь, тем больше кругозор. Я же говорю о конкретных знаниях - знаниях английского языка. Вы их не имеете, но беретесь обсуждать носителей языка.

@@user-cu8tx8yz2q Guys, different languages handle time differently. Quite significantly indeed. What the original commenter meant by "I liked every second of it" is that he enjoyed himself during the entire time watching the video. And because he is commenting after he has finished watching the video the watching of the video is in the past, hence -> liked.

That was also big in Berlin in the 1920s. How fitting that these recordings were made there 100 years later.

@@inotoni6148 So true, Berlin spirit on display here. No matter what that city has been through, Berlin always rises up and its people always shine on! In the 20s it was the Cabaret and jazz.

Was it optimism or the genuine feeling of sth bad brewing so you better dance like there's no tomorrow? Genuine question.

@@garrulus3399 Probably a bit of both. Either way, maybe we could use some more of that spirit.

@@CallmeOzymandias true... I hope you get to dance like there is many tomorrows!!

I see it!

I had to watch it again after reading your comment, your so right

@@lymarie1974 Way ahead of you, I've watched this dozens of times, there's just so much to the way this young lady interprets the music. The whole dance is relaxed and a tad informal, like she's on a dance floor and not a stage, just having fun. Then just now (of course I had to see it again), I'm seeing how she put together every bar of the choreography to be perfectly suited to the arrangement: the clarinet solo is playful and so is she, then the trombone & muted trumpet dialogue are just a little raunchy, and there she is too; then the band comes back in on a charge, and she cuts right loose with it. My favorite element of all is while she is >such< a beautiful woman, the dance isn't so much sexy, even with all those tres-risque moves, as just very, very genuinely feminine. This is something very special here.

Grea dancers make it look easy.

Ah... let us address the elephant in the room here. It's her boobs that steal the show and she knows it, and that is simply precious, and beautiful.

Her dancing brings blood to my penis.

Good rhythm and moves while also being fun, clean and wholesome

I am with you. It has a light feathery feeling to it.

Surely her hair is too long for this?

@@aclark903 Quietly walk yourself out of this chat please

this is black bottom not charleston

@@brailynghaphery4899 Let’s not be pedantic about what is essentially a street dance. She’s combining Charleston moves with Black Bottom and jazz hands and solo Lindy. Just like swing dancers did back in the day, and just like swing dancers do today. Heck, I like to throw in Balboa moves myself.

@@HoneyTone-TheSearchContinues ok, just talking. apologize for any inconvenience though.

And a professional dancer.

Yeah, I stumble too....

im not a dance guy either, im a beautiful woman guy

Same, just "accidentally" clicked on this video

I'm a simple man

you have the same name as I

@@WECantThink oh no you don't

I read that Celtic dancers practice until their feet bleed.

@@justaguy1679 damn … true dedication right there.

Probably not many hours at all. The Charleston is a very simple dance and she’s a pro.

@@raymondmeyers8983 Nothing that looks easy is simple.

Same here!

AMEN!!!💓

Me too☺️

me to maaan!;) awsome to see!;)

i felt happy many times

That clothing was invented and encouraged or more enforced by women, too, btw.

@@BlackCroft666 yes we know, no one cares.

The women of that generation who were still alive when I was a child -- a grandmother, a great-aunt-- born in the mid-1890s and would have expected to spend their whole lives in floor-length skirts once they had become women -- and then THIS in their young-women years, with hemlines above the knees -- and when I think what THEIR older people must have thought, stunned and shocked --- what a generational change that was. As for my grandfathers (b. 1885, 1893), they may have thought that in terms of girl-watching, they had hit a cosmic-event-level jackpot....

I agree, it was a wonderful performance!

Hope she sees this, bro. (cringe)

This dance actually came back during the 80s under a different name (I forget what). I remember my grandmother being surprised seing me trying to learn it, and proceeded to teach it to me. 😁

@@DikaWolf Many of today's shuffle dance moves are displayed here as well. Tons of different dances included in this piece.

@@DikaWolf One of my grandmothers was a professional dancer before she married, and danced The Black Bottom at the time.

@@innocentoctave My grandmother was also a dancer, but for the USO.

You just discovered me a great author. Thank you. Nice video also.

Especially any who are wheel chair bound, or morbidly obese. Seriously this dance isn't that uplifting but if so then you're living a very sheltered life.

​@@jimmason8502 Wow! I'm sure that you already know how crucial your opinion is to me, Jim, so thanks for giving it - my life is enriched by your very presence! I stand by what I said: "Beautiful girl, magnificent talent! She's so full of life! This should be compulsory viewing for depression patients!" Don't like? Don't read!

I agree TOTALLY I also think about Irish music, it is a very strong anti depressant. You foot start inevitably moving at rhythm. As German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Yes please! How awesome that would be!

It is here..... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNGAiKZkzL3aknk.html

She just did the standard Charleston in a flapper dress.

@@GoGoTheFabricator sorry; I meant that she just released a new video in which she's wearing a champagne-gold flapper dress. That first comment *was* a little vague.

Or out...

Thank you Steve!

yea, thanks, _Steve_

@@dinofrog926 lol... what movie/tv is that from?

@@jordans4827 the original movie of _my mind_ (tm) starring me and Steve

@@dinofrog926 lol trademark it, you AncientAmphibian you! For some reason, I was thinking Stranger Things... "(sarcastically) Ya, thanks, Steve." I've been watching too much Netflix.

They felt the same people dancing today do. It's not like we evolved into a different species since then. Go out and dance.

Oh thanks Ernesto, I'm glad to hear that you like it. 😊

better that today's steps

Your sentiments are mine EXACTLY! Every moment of her routine is perfectly orchestrated, perfectly choreographed to the music, and she's a joy to look at.

Ernesto, you are 💯% right❣🎯

why tho I'm confused as to why its considered provocative in any sense

I see why. Gross mating dance.

Bruh, innocent is definitely not a term I would use for Charleston. Adorable is more like it but there is no doubt about it having provocative elements to me. Not to call that good or bad. Edit: Just reviewing, definitely tame by today's standards. Lol Looks good fun though. I bet I would be out of breath half way through.

@@carolinpurayidom4570 Probably the way the hips move sometimes. I think the controversy was how it made the woman look. That's often how sexual censorship worked 9and still works).

Well yes, you can see her ankles, the shameless hussy!

Women couldn't vote until 1920. Post WW1. The West Virginia Mine Wars didn't subside until 1921. Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921. Carefree and joyous? The Progressive Era was just beginning. And just a few years later, a Fascist threat grew in Europe leading to WW2, with many well known right-wing American supporters delaying U.S. involvement. The Progressive Movement is alive and well today, but under threat from the chaotic New Right. Their anti-democratic extremists shout that a great battle may be at hand. I shudder to think that history may repeat itself.

she that old?

Frame rate 👍🏽

Well this was Filmed at 24 frames a second. you can tell if you are watching on a computer monitor and not a cellphone. Her movement is not as smooth as 60 frames a second...most films (even back in the 20s were filed around 15-18 frames and some of the higher budget ones, the same 24 frames. She looks natural because she actually is moving with passion and energy.

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No actually I remember that dancing classes were part of your education back in the 50's and 60's (borne 1942). Did a lot of Amature Dramatics (Stage Lighting) and the opperatic & dramatic society dinner dances being able to cut a presentable presence on the dance floor was a must. Well one was still single!!! I will say this; to do the charlston properly required a being taught be a dancer and a fair bit of practice to get the coordination smoothness and expression right. Never reall did master it!!!!!! However Stage Lighting is a very high art form not just ilumination, remember what you hear all comes into your brain at below 20,000 cycles per second. What you see needs a band at least 5 million cycles per second. Guess where most of the information flows. You have to reflect what the producer is trying to achieve. Simples

@@MichaelOrtega Some film of that time must have been filmed at even lower frame rate, I think. Possibly to save material, even in the Super-8 era, there were half frame rate switches to make those cartidges last just a bit longer. And a lot of the stock footage has at some point been copied to video or other systems, on equipment that rolled the film at the lowest framerate it would support, and so those flics are often nowhere near the frame rate they were actually rolled in. Wasn't it even still common to manually crank the handle back in those days?