Dance Compilation (1940-1959)

Unedited compilation of various clips of dance footage. Mostly very short shots, mostly 1940s and 50s I would think. Some intermittent sound. C/U of man various musicians playing instruments: drums, trumpets, saxophones, etc. A German oom-pa band walks through a crowd lined street playing their instruments. African man performing a traditional dance. Clarinet players. Morris dancers performing in front of a church. Hawaiian dancing. Tribal dance - C/U of mens’ feet, they wear furry ankle garments. Two couples jiving. A man in a suit dances in front of a car as it moves along. A majorette does cartwheels in the road in front of a car. Two girls dance together. Group of African men play primitive glockenspiels. Tribes people dance. Traditional Thai or Indonesian (?) dancing. Four young girls in white with flowers in their hair dance together - Scottish reels? or country dancing. Men in very large ornate head-dresses dance - Belgian? Flemish? African man in a large head-dress which lo
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