Venice Beach Vintage Dancing 1940

[lancelot1953]

Cute, real nice! Scenes from a beautiful, young & innocent America. Thank you for sharing these with us.

[jamesdean062879]

They could have brought music to the beach quite easily--either bring a truck with a generator and amplifier (quite available in 1940), or bring portable equipment with batteries (somewhat less practical). Lots of people listened in to their favorite radio programs with portable battery operated radios. I own three of them, and they work quite well on batteries. My Zenith 5-G-500 picks up signals like no other radio, just like Zenith advertised.

[twobarbreak]

This was on Home 8mm camera, this is not the original audio...it was originally silent.

it was filmed at Venice Beach Pier while the dancers were dancing to music.

[rustyfrank]

Thanks, Peter. What else do you know about this one? It's one of my favs.

[rustyfrank]

I don't know for sure. I have always assumed it was the dancer's audio. The filmmakers might have just asked them to set a tempo, and they would put in the music later. Remember, in those days, how would they have brought music to the beach unless it was live?

[Webins]

I like this.

SO the giggling and talking and feet-shuffling ound we hear, isn't from the dancers and their audience?

I ask because of the lack of music.