Chopsticks’ Dance (1960)

High angle M/S of a man in red silky trousers, gold waistcoat and flip-flops, sitting cross-legged on the ground playing the bongos. M/S of a small crowd of people in summer clothes watching at a holiday camp (looks like Butlin’s as there are Redcoats about) in Margate, Kent, and clapping in time with the drums as some people in Philippine costume enter the performance area. The girl leading them, Wendy Edwards, has an elaborate hairdo and holds a fan in front of her face; four men following behind wear coolie-style hats and carry long bamboo poles. The girl takes down the fan and makes eastern-style movements with her head. They move around the open-air performance area in time to the music while the audience clap; commentator says “...the dance has been slightly Anglicised. In place of the Filipino name ’Tinikling’, it’s called ’chopsticks’“. The men place the poles on the ground making a grid and start to beat them on the ground in time, then quickly clap them together as the girl dances in the