Dancing Nations (1931)

[Music] on this little tour the travel app cameraman is going to take you on a trip around the globe and show you the various styles of dancing in the different countries before leaving the United States we ducked into an American dance hall where a marathon dance was just getting underway this is nothing less than a test of endurance and when the couple's gets old if they can't stand on their own seat they stand on their partners all right you marathon it on with a dance let joy be unrefined and now we find ourselves in Africa the seed of the black bottom these mate is a very fond of dancing but they have no sense of rhythm the music goes in one foot and out the other the girls on the right lost their shirts playing option bridge notice the black curly hair they import tons of cook from Pittsburgh and use it for dancing if you think the Americans are good at the black bottom just watch these Africans the girls in Indochina very absent-minded here they are canoeing when they forgotten their canoes but it's very realistic to them in fact it's so realistic that yesterday one of them sat down on the floor beyond her depth and was drowned the country of sound but the people are little shaken she promised to buy this dress and now she tried to wiggle out of it this fellow would for a chain store he had that landing in specific seats one points east and the other points west now we're in salon look at those naked ghosts they've got dance in their pants they're so ambitious that they're trying to jump north and south at the same time they can't seem to make up their mind whether or not they want to sit down it isn't much fun making love this way but I guess it's better than no necking at all the man is the boss and he's showing her what fun people of Kashmir are very skilled in the art of terpsichore but times are so tough in this country but the natives have to do the soft shoe dance in their bare feet although this young lady is surrounded by water he is not planning to drown himself he is just learning how to be a traffic cop in Venice leaving Kashmir we are assuming some more look at those collegiate pants he takes three steps before his trousers move he wants to join the college football team they ought to sign him up if they're looking for a good end he can certainly keep that backfield in motion this ought to be good stuff it's just off the boat we're gonna do that jungle jelly roll now he's warmed up what choice takes that sizzling Samoan Kimi these Samoans are plenty hot jump on a sister and give us the mower in Japan we find the dancers dressed in kimonos we have come owners in this country too but to an American woman a kimono is like the handbrake of an automobile something to be put on in an emergency these are geeky girls these your girls are 99 and 44 100% pure as they never do any petty in other words they are untouched by human hands they're expecting that blessed event so as I see a couple of storks in the background across the ocean once more into Egypt the land upon which that famous song was written he just must be heaven cause my money came from there that's pretty nice foot boy but that bat-rope sort of puzzles me I can't tell whether he's dancing or waiting to get into the bathroom our next stop took us to Alaska where we visited the Eskimo and spent several happy days among God throws these people are schemer landed at the town of Frigidaire a cover of General Motors it was a pretty little village and reminded this a fair bank only on a smaller scale it was pretty cold up here in the last these bula maidens always play safe and dance by the water one of the girls got so hot the other day that she said her dress skirt on fire and in all my life I've never seen so many volunteer firemen I even went to the blaze myself wiggling like this is against the law and the girls can be fined for it but the girls don't care thank you to the fines and let the hips fall where they may we thought that you might like to see a little aesthetic dancer well well boys will be girls it's too bad that this picture isn't in colors as the costumes are wearing our beautiful red and gold with a big dash of lavender they look real fast and I think they're crying yes they're dancing with tears in their eyes of all the dances none are more interesting than those in Bavaria one of these girls just left her partner in the face I don't know what happened but it seems that he pulled the bloomers once upon a time there were a couple of Irishmen now there are millions of them I don't know what this is it looks like a couple of chiropractors on their day off watch them slap each other they're both death and they'll certainly be surprised when they hear that they've been hit on the ear the man with the violin doesn't win for any serious plane he just fiddles around no I know what they're doing I've got it all figured out they're hitchhikers and I'm learning how to talk back to motorists who refuse to stop and take them up 6 poor fellow has been to the doctor so often that he picked his tongue out at everybody back in America again we find the marathon dance still going but they're reaching over our photographer is put his camera on the floor so that you birds out there in the audience can flit from limb to limb this man has won all the prizes for being the best marathon dancer in the country but success hasn't gone to his feet those two Dame's over there on the Left had better keep their hip skills or they're going to lose their letters without moving the foot they've been making funny knots an hour that boy sure knows how to pick them he used to be a Rear Admiral while we're in America suppose we go over to a government reservation and see how the Redskins and it was a long walk out here onto the desert so we couldn't use our car it was laid up with engine trouble this is a sort of a memorial dance they're dancing to the memory of one of their ancestors who died a hundred years ago of James it seems that this departed warrior once spent an hour and a half scalping a man and then discovered that the fellow wore a toupee the foreigners on these reservations are going in for football and the local Fuller Brush man has formed the scrub team and it won't be long until they D sweeping in the country they play for exhibition games in four different towns every Saturday you'd think they'd have a hard time getting around so fast but they are with from village to village by a sexual risk room back again to the marathon we found the dances exhausting the young lady wants to go to sleep but she doesn't know him well enough after 24 weeks of continuous dancing the winners return to their [ __ ] for a well-earned race this is their first night off in six months and how do you think they're going to spend it you're right they're going to advance [Music]