“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”*…
Someone went through a great deal of effort to stitch together a montage of dance scenes from some 300 feature films…
More (including a list of all of the films featured) at: Dancing in Movies: A Montage of Dance Moments from Almost 300 Feature Films.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
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As we tap our toes, we might send closely-observed birthday greetings to Donn Alan “D. A.” Pennebaker (or “Penny” to his friends); he was born on this date in 1925. A documentarian, he was a pioneer of direct cinema and cinema verite. While his dozens of films have touched on a wide variety of subjects, he has a long– and very influential– suit in music: starting with his portrait of the young Bob Dylan, Don’t Look Back, and continuing through Monterrey Pop, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and Woodstock Diary, he was instrumental in creating the modern “rock doc.”
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