The Charleston Dance 1925 - Roaring 20s Film in HD Color & Sound

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Time travel back 100 years to the 1920s for the amazing dance craze that was The Charleston. Featuring a rare film of the original Charleston dancer Bee Jackson. Silent film Colorized and enhanced to 4K with added sound.

0:00 A 1920s flapper in a light blue dress listens to the Charleston on her radio.
0:09 A flapper in a pink dress energetically performs the Charleston dance on a table top.
0:25 The dancer in pink is shown in a close-up, smiling and showcasing the Charleston's lively movements.
0:59 A woman in a dark blue outfit performs a more subdued version of the dance, focusing on rhythmic footwork.
1:14 The scene transitions to a lively dance hall with multiple couples dancing the Charleston.
1:45 The woman from the beginning returns, swinging her feet to the Charleston while listening to the radio.

Who Invented the Charleston Dance ?

The famous Cotton club dancer and choreographer Elida Webb devised the dance steps to the Charleston and it was first performed in the Broadway stage show Running Wild (1923). The song was composed by James P. Johnson. A young aspiring dancer Bee Jackson saw the show and reportedly learned the steps from Webb. Bee Jackson went on to be dubbed the "Charleston Queen" popularizing the Charleston dance for a larger white audience.
By 1925 flappers across the world were dancing to The Charleston. Running Wild featured an African American cast of dancers and singers. 100 years later the song and dance is most notably recalled every Christmas during the iconic Charleston Dance scene in It's a Wonderful Life (1948) .

The dance has its earlier origins in South Carolina's African American Gullah Geechee community. It was brought to Harlem New York by the Jenkins Orphanage Band of Charleston in the early 1900s. James P Johnston said the tune was inspired by the syncopated rhythms he heard the band play. Likewise, Elida Webb said that many of the steps she choreographed to the Charleston were inspired by the Orphanage Band dancers, who were mostly kids.

It was the Breakdance of its era.


Original footage
Charleston dancing at starlight park--outtakes. (Fox News Story A7489.)
Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.

How silent footage is colorized and brought to Life

I take early fragments of silent 16fps footage and restore them to life by a combination of manual frame by frame colorization as well as the use of deep exemplar-based video colorization techniques. The footage is upscaled and the frames interpolated to a higher frame rate ( in most cases 60 frames per second.) Finally I produce a soundtrack which helps build a new immersive experience for the viewer.
Together, these processes revive old fragments of footage, offering audiences a more
vivid and engaging glimpse of lives long since lived in the distant past.

The colorization process used Deep exemplar-based Video colorization.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909

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