Big British ballroom - 1947 from "Holiday Camp"

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Big British ballroom - 1947 from "Holiday Camp"

#1 Post by Eyeball » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:26 am

This is a fascinating film - comedy/drama - depicting life/times/fun at a huge English holiday camp in the late 1940s. I had heard the term "holiday camp" before, but didn't know quite what it was. This film explains much.

In any event, there are 2 or 3 ballroom sequences in the film and this one is one of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBufR0XMh34

The place is packed. The live big band is playing "Woodchopper's Ball". The dance floor is filled with dancers of all kinds including a young couple doing some jitterbugging.

It's an entertaining film.

Some comment from our British members would be fun to read.
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Re: Big British ballroom - 1947 from "Holiday Camp"

#2 Post by Eyeball » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:52 am

Holiday Camp ..." The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.
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