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Title: DANCING DISPLAYS

Reference number: 10475

Date: 1947*

Director: filmed by Averil and Willie Murdoch

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 32.31 mins

Description: Amateur footage of children's dance displays in a theatre and in a dance classroom.

Shotlist: Shots of children on stage doing ballet dancing. Shots of groups of other children dancing. Shots of girls dressed as Little Bo Peep while doing the Can-Can. More shots of girls dancing with different stages set up behind them. Shots of girls dressed up as playing card (possibly from Alice and Wonderland) dancing on the stage. Next children dressed up as sailors and cowboys dance. Shots of children and adults all bowing to the audience. The women and a person in the orchestra pit are given flowers. Shots from another dancing display. Further shots of girls dancing wearing lots of different costumes including the Can-Can girls, elf costumes and more sailors. Shots from a ballet classroom of girls performing while people watch. Shots of a woman handing out scrolls of paper to the girls.