Swinging the Lambeth Walk

Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940)


  • Genre: Music, Animation
  • Release Date: 1940-02-01
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 18 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 4min
  • Language: No Language
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
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Summary

Lye edited together “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk (including Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stephane Grapelli on violin), combining them with a particularly diverse range of direct film images, scratched as well as painted. He was particularly pleased with a final guitar solo (with a vibrating horizontal line) and double bass solo (with a stomping vertical line). For this film Lye did not have to include any advertising slogans; friends at the Tourist and Industrial Development Association, shocked to learn that Lye and his family had become destitute, arranged for TIDA to sponsor the film – to the horror of government bureaucrats who could not understand why a popular dance was being treated as a tourist attraction. - Harvard Film Archive

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