Doing the Lindy Hop ... in 1910 - AI Enhanced Swing Dancing [60 fps]

AI restored film of early swing out dancing ( known as the Texas Tommy) circa 1910-14. There isn’t much information about where this was filmed. However the boogie woogie style originated in San Francisco and was the prototype of what later became known as the Lindy hop, and later again - swing dance. This also may well be dance duo, Johnny Peters and Ethel Williams, who traveled from coast to coast, at this time, demonstrating the dance between 1910 and 1913. From the Prelinger Archive, and originally uploaded by archivist AV Geeks. See original: The History of the Lindy Hop and Swing Dance. Before dance, there’s always music! Boogie Woogie was pretty popular among African Americans by the 1910’s and was morphing into faster swingout partnered dancing as Jazz bands took off. While what we are seeing here was not called the Lindy Hop ( yet), it is certainly the prototype. Leubrie Hill’s all-black musical revue of 1913, the “Darktown Follies“, brought wider attention to the Texas Tommy dance, performed in the show by Ethel Williams and Peters. Later in the 1920’s, or July 1928 to be exact, legendary Savoy dancer George Snowden ( Shorty George) and his partner Mattie Purnell purportedly renamed their brand of swingout, the “Lindy Hop“ in a dance marathon at Harlem’s Rockland Palace. The term “hop“ was often used to describe dance events by the 1920’s. Lindy was a common affectionate nickname by 1928 for Charles Lindbergh, who was a household name after his first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927. The Lindy Hop would go by many names and step styles ( as music evolved) during the 1930’s and 1940’s. East Coast or West Coast Swing, the Jitterbug or just swing dance. The Deep Learning AI Restoration Process: 1. Removed artifacts and noise. 2. Interpolated new frames ( from 20 to 60fps) using the DainApp, to add depth awareness 3. Upscaled the original 480p film to 4K resolution using Topaz Video Enhance AI and Vidcoder. 4. Added color with Deoldify This short AI enhanced film is published here for preservation purposes and to add an immersive experience to the work of early filmmakers. It is free to view and not commercially available on DVD or for republishing elsewhere. Published here under the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video as outlined by the Center for Media & Social Impact.