New Dances For Everybody (1938)

Titles read: “New Dances For Everybody!“ Streatham, London. At The Locarno dance hall we see a line of three women and three men demonstrating a new dance called ’The Palais Glide’ - quite a simple step, a little like the Lambeth Walk. Hundreds of people join in on the dance floor, while girls in evening frocks sit watching in wicker chairs. We then see four couples doing ’The Lambeth Walk’ on the dance floor. The men wear funny hats (probably meant to be Pearly King caps) and the women wear floppy hats decorated with flowers. After midnight, Lupino Lane appears at the microphone to sing ’Doing The Lambeth Walk’ from his show ’Me and My Girl’. The company of the show demonstrate they do the number in the show (it was currently playing at the Victoria Palace Theatre), which includes all of them playing it on mouth organs! C/Us of the orchestra playing the tune. Then everyone comes onto the dance floor to join in with the Lambeth Walk - oi! FILM ID:1170.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.