Swinging the Lambeth Walk

1940 | 4 minutes | 5.8 ★ (19)

Swinging the Lambeth Walk
  • Overview

    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

  • Release Date

    01 February 1940

  • DirectingLen Lye
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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