- Description
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Tap Dance #1 / Ralph Brown [television/video]
- Title
- Tap Dance #1 [Television/Video]
- Performers
- Brown, Ralph
- Green, Charles "Chuck"
- Published/Created
- 1972
- Genre
- Television/Video
- Abstract
- Originally telecast by WCBS-TV on the series "Camera Three." Narrated by Richard Lamparski. Overview of the history of tap dance in America depicted through still photographs, archival footage, and demonstrations by tap masters Ralph Brown and Chuck Green in the television studio. Film clips of (1897) "Dancing Darky Boy" filmed by Thomas A. Edison; reconstruction (by Green) of John Durang's Pas de Matelot (A Sailor Hornpipe-- Old Style), published in 1855; demonstration of Essence of Old Virginia/Softshoe (Brown); and a Sand Dance (Green); excerpt of Edwin S. Porter's film version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1903); Eddie Rector's and Toots Davis' "Over-the-Top" and "In-the-Trenches" introduced in the teens; basic tap steps; clip of Louis Douglas performing a stair dance in the manner of bill Robinson in "No Man's Land"(1931); Tom Patricola and Buster West in a short dance subject film in the 1930s.
- Source
- New York Public Library: CATNYP: Dance Collection: Tap Dancing. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015