Harry Mantel’s Vignettes: Square Dance
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This Harry Mantel Vignette, set to fast-paced country music, provides a quick portrayal of the 21st National Square Dance Convention in Iowa.
Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1972
Cfa collection: Harry Mantel Collection
Notes: The footage opens to a brightly lit interior where the square dance convention is taking place. Before the performance, people can be seen conversing in groups. Commentors on a stage are briefly shown speaking into microphones before the footage switches to a wide shot of a crowded ballroom. Everyone is captured in traditional square dance attire; women are seen in full, short gowns and men in long sleeved shirts and short neck ties.
Subjects: Dance; Events; Manners and customs; Clothing and dress
Places: North America > United States > Iowa > Iowa City
Language: English
Cfa elements: Distribution Print, 115 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/16660
Cfa collection: Harry Mantel Collection
Notes: The footage opens to a brightly lit interior where the square dance convention is taking place. Before the performance, people can be seen conversing in groups. Commentors on a stage are briefly shown speaking into microphones before the footage switches to a wide shot of a crowded ballroom. Everyone is captured in traditional square dance attire; women are seen in full, short gowns and men in long sleeved shirts and short neck ties.
Subjects: Dance; Events; Manners and customs; Clothing and dress
Places: North America > United States > Iowa > Iowa City
Language: English
Cfa elements: Distribution Print, 115 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/16660
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:09