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Dancing Around the World

Moving image
Identifier
0.407
Date:
circa 1917
Description:
Contains excerpts of dancing from travelogues by Burton Holmes. Greece: Eleusinian dance. Ceylon: The devil dance. Moravia: A holiday frolic. Africa: A Nubian spear dance by the Bishareens. Austrian Tyrol: The Schuhplattler dance. Italy: The tarantella. Hawaii: The hula dance. Java: The royal dancers in the Sultan's palace. Japan: The Geisha dance. Philippine Islands: A Moro dance. Luzon: Igorotes canao dance. Korea: The Risang dance. Nome, Alaska: Eskimo dance. 
Access Format
SD DVD
Master Format
film
Technical Notes
Transfer of Film 18.1