Cleopatra's Nightmare

Cleopatra's Nightmare - Sand Dance

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18 жыл бұрын

Wilson, Keppel & Betty - 1930s' British Music Hall stars perform their legendary dance routine. Formed in America in 1917, the trio were still going strong in the 1950s carrying with them at all times their own personal sand - even when they played in Las Vegas! It is said there were six Bettys over the decades!

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@jannetteberends8730 4 жыл бұрын

Walk like an Egyptian and a breakdance, these guys were astonishing

@kevinjessop5759 2 жыл бұрын

Only found out this week that one of the Betty's was my Wife's Auntie, she is thrilled to be able to see a family member on screen, even not knowing which lady it was likely to be, we have photos but still can't decide from the film clips as they are very grainy. What we do know is that she was only a young woman who was a fabulous gymnast and dancer. Kevin

@swallin19 16 жыл бұрын

Wonderful to see the clips, few exist now, my grandfather was a close friend of Joe Keppel, they both came for the same street in Cork, Ireland, and he nearly joined the act in the early days.

@5916tony 14 жыл бұрын

just magnificent surely someone will enter britains got talent and resurrect this. choreography and timing is spot on

@algrant5293 5 жыл бұрын

Their own personal sand, I love it.

@GREENMEANIE44 17 жыл бұрын

Fantastic my mum told me about WKB when I was a little boy and now Im 45 I still laugh at this film thanks for the memory .

@londonscot1 17 жыл бұрын

A classic music hall act. Wonderful stuff. Thanks for posting!

@robertcushman7002 10 ай бұрын

this is fabulous! you won't see this today, or anytime soon.... truly a lost art... cheers 👍 🍻

@hermask815 9 ай бұрын

Actually I’m waiting for a woke comment complaining about something.😢

@delbrassfan 17 жыл бұрын

absolute genius. guaranteed smile on my face every time

@nostromoau 18 жыл бұрын

A classic! I have been searching for footage of these guys for years.

@albertmcmullen2669 3 жыл бұрын

Send this act together with other notable souvenirs into a space capsule to articulate to aliens what our civilisation was all about.

@user-hc4lb2px5x Жыл бұрын

ОМГ, да тут и элементы брейк данса😅, получила удовольствие! Спасибо!

@rameshjagtap5130 7 ай бұрын

Still it's working beautiful. Thanks.

@gremlinuk1968 2 жыл бұрын

1st seen this in the 70s as a kid ,!

@muffinisis 16 жыл бұрын

i just read a biography and betty was replaced a few times, it wasnt always the same girl, but i remember them as a child and they were funny, and indeed still are

@steveoh9285 9 ай бұрын

Betty’s granddaughter eventually appeared in the same role, astonishing how entertaining this trio was/is!

@incongra 17 жыл бұрын

Yes I also saw this act on TV about 20 years ago. They are amazing. BETTY is a magnificent woman. Thank you. Thank you.

@virgil291 5 жыл бұрын

What a treat.... Thanks for posting.....

@laurencetribe9341 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!

@blackpoolbarmpot 16 жыл бұрын

Oh wonderful...., Wilson Keppel and Betty.

@urbanmanc 17 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting , this is very difficult to find and well worth watching.

@ritamarch2401 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Hotun! Saw them in panto in Oxford as a child, racked my memory for their names as I'm engaged in a U3A project on childhood memoirs. It's great to find this footage. And happily, traditional Panto survives - Cinderella at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, this year, same great slapstick, same old gags, same magic.

@davidedwards3361 4 жыл бұрын

This is so corny, but entertaining. It wouldn't go down today though. Music with more than 6 notes, dancing with more than 6 steps and no swearing. I may be getting older, but...BRING BACK THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

@frostye11 8 жыл бұрын

My Father always used to say in a joke ( having seen them many times ) that Wilson and Keppel were always the same but Betty was always changing ha ha.

@vaslav030547 Ай бұрын

What a good job someone had the common sense to film this or we would never know. Unlike today with all sorts of tech and nobody films anything for future generations.

@jonjamg 14 жыл бұрын

They performed this for Joseph Goebells in 1936 in Berlin who declared it indecent!

@1crankyvet 13 жыл бұрын

love it more every time i watch it.

@pellster60 15 жыл бұрын

i love this so much

@MartinThau 9 жыл бұрын

Simply beautiful!

@mannleycollins8138 11 жыл бұрын

Saw these live at York Empire when a small boy. Michael Jackson eat your heart out.

@gremlinuk1968 6 жыл бұрын

fuck , you must be old,,!!

@jinxinternet 5 жыл бұрын

You must be young!

@mi1964amigo 16 жыл бұрын

How I love this act!

@laurencetribe9341 2 жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT

@ruthd7274 14 жыл бұрын

perfection!

@muff-puff. Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant 👏 👍🇬🇧🏆

@muffinisis 14 жыл бұрын

i did know there were three, i have this clip on my favourites and remember watching it as a child,

@essyyyx 14 жыл бұрын

Hahaa :O One of the men was my great great great great uncle !! Lol !!

@coracleman 15 жыл бұрын

just fab stuff! coracle woman

@drummerjohn49 16 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! How do they keep a straight face?

@gremlinuk1968 5 жыл бұрын

fucking class !!

@nitronorman1491 7 жыл бұрын

That looks damn hard to do. Not saying that other dances are less complex or longer. Most movies nowadays would have has several scene cuts to give the actors a few moments of rest. But that part where they're walking back to front is very difficult to pull off without loads of practice.

@davidkglevi 12 жыл бұрын

Masterful! So funny! And bizzarely enough very similar to a dance routine I and my colleagues do in a intermezzo in The imaginary invalid by Molière, called "The moorish dancers".

@mrmel321 14 жыл бұрын

very good

@muffinisis 15 жыл бұрын

i have to say, they were good,

@Ouseabour 11 жыл бұрын

Sorry! an out of control tablet! Merry Christmas! (and a wonderful performance,btw).I' ve been looking for this for many moons...

@Freddie3113 16 жыл бұрын

Hahahahha! I love this

@muffinisis 16 жыл бұрын

too true

@doznt12 5 ай бұрын

Ha! They put Toast & Peacock to shame!

@monimoniese4816 Жыл бұрын

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

@Freddie3113 16 жыл бұрын

hahhahaha this makes me chuckle

@darkoak40 18 жыл бұрын

is it possible to get a dvd of these guys, they are great!

@gremlinuk1968 5 жыл бұрын

1930s, / would , be, ,great now, 2018,!!

@pendragonready7217 8 жыл бұрын

@youssarian99 - that's exactly what I was expecting to hear, that is why I just put the search in to KZfaq - I feel cheated! :-)

@musanca42 16 жыл бұрын

Proof that break dancing was invented in 1899

@incongra 16 жыл бұрын

What's the name of the biography and does it have an ISBN number by any chance? - I am very keen to find out more about these marvellous performers

@pereast 7 жыл бұрын

Was this the reason the British Government created the Ministry of Silly Walks? ;)

@differous01 6 жыл бұрын

The ministry was founded to regulate an outbreak of morris dancing; Wilson and Kepel (part of the rehab' program) went to Berlin in 1936 but the lederhosen strain of the disease proved too virulent.

@trysometenderness7466 5 жыл бұрын

Good one! Not many would understand that reference.

@Freddie3113 16 жыл бұрын

Look them up on wiki?

@shawntco 9 жыл бұрын

OK someone please point out where in this video is that 9-bar piece that we've all come to associate with being Egyptian... that do-do do do do do-do do-do do part.

@algrant5293 5 жыл бұрын

I know this is can answer 4 years on but it starts at 1 minute 30, the music is known as the sand dance but is really named The Egyptian Ballet ☺ hope you don't mind this message now.

@muffinisis 7 жыл бұрын

It was not always the same Betty, but they were good

@codfangler1 14 жыл бұрын

Sand Dance

@williamhall1927 Жыл бұрын

For some strange reason, i insist on cslling this trio. Freeman Hardy and Willis. Daft, i know.

@pendragonready7217 8 жыл бұрын

sorry youssarian91, I put in 99 in error!

@stephaniesadie832 10 жыл бұрын

Theres a point at 2:34 where he is Moon Walking. Now you know where Michael Jackson pinched it from.

@user-gi3ul2om1f 8 ай бұрын

Забавно танцуют дядьки👬 с усами в набедренных повязках и чёрных труселях Как один из них 1:45 жеманно он поднимет повязку чтобы показать что под неё находится 🙊🙉🙈

@Ouseabour 11 жыл бұрын

@mommymoonchild

@AA-wd2or Жыл бұрын

Sound like Borat dance

@urnungal 14 жыл бұрын

AIUI there were 3 Bettys - each new one being the daughter of her predecessor.

@alanm5939 5 жыл бұрын

Can someone post this great clip in better resoloution - no excuse for 144 these days

@tomitstube 5 жыл бұрын

can't find much about their personal lives, don't think the two men ever married and there's no mention of girlfriends. probably a good indication they were both gay.

@marywilliams9858 5 жыл бұрын

Oh shut up. Probably a good indication they never found the right women.

@tomitstube 5 жыл бұрын

@@marywilliams9858 uh yeah, sure... ; - )

@blackrabbit212 5 жыл бұрын

@@marywilliams9858 Don't encourage him, Mary. If we ignore him, maybe he'll go away.

@jinxinternet 5 жыл бұрын

Is this racist? I sure hope not.

@oldskoolfool141 4 жыл бұрын

Nope, Tutankhamuns tomb had recently been opened so anything Egyptian was very fashionable at that time and WK&B were a natural spin off of that, this is (as were most theatre acts in those days that mimicked other cultures in times when foreign actually was foreign) merely innocent parody, the comedy isn't aimed at Egyptian culture or dance it's about how daft THEY look doing it as two skinny lanky angular white men (enhanced by their angular moustaches)

@chapsnaps1 2 жыл бұрын

No it's not racist! They are depicting ancient Egyptians from thousands of years ago. Wilson, Keppel and Betty performed the act for King Farouk of Egypt, and he laughed greatly during the performance. The act is an entertaining homage to ancient Egypt and capitalized on the worldwide excitement following the discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in 1922.

@pendragonready7217 8 жыл бұрын

sorry youssarian91, I put in 99 in error!