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1960: Let's Go Dancing | Monitor | BBC Archive
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Five million people in England go dancing ever week, Ron Hitchens is just one of them - a cockney barrow boy with a passion for dancing in its myriad forms.
In Ken Russell's beautiful short film, Ron leads us through the strange and varied world of the dancers of England; from jive to ballroom, folk dancing to flamenco, morris dancing to modern and even the mysterious, centuries-old, Abbots Bromley Horn Dance.
Director: Ken Russell
Film editor: Allan Tyrer
Associate producer: Nancy Thomas and Humphrey Burton
Editor: Huw Wheldon
Clip taken from Monitor: The Light Fantastic, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 28 December, 1960.
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