“Happy Birthday 9.5mm” January Program by Anna Briggs

Happy Birthday!

January Archive Streaming Programme: Happy Feet, selected by Anna Briggs

Let’s waltz into this new year of centenary celebrations with some films that will make you jump up and shake your tail feather.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, Slow-Motion Dancing Scenes, year unknown

https://collections.ushmm.org/

• Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, filmmaker unknown, École de Danse de l’Opéra de Paris (exercises à la barre), 1921

https://library.princeton.edu/

• Grahame Newnham Collection, Pathé Frères, La pluie de feu, 1923?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

• Cinémathèque de Bretagne / Gwarez Filmoù, Pierre Debec, Holiday on Ice, 1955

https://www.cinematheque-

• Grahame Newnham Collection, Julius Hagen, Across Europe (Paris Sequence), 1939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

• Ciclic, André Lacombe, La Nuit du Caméra Club de Malesherbes (CCAM), 1956

https://memoire.ciclic.fr/1023-nuit-du-camera-club-de-malesherbes-ccam-la