Top Dancers’ Competition (1959)

Title reads: “Top Dancers’ Competition“. European Ballroom Dancing Championships at Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany. Various shots of ballroom dancing competition - couples are doing Latin-American style dancing. M/S of line of couples at awards ceremony, Karl and Ursula Breuer step forwards and bow having won the contest, audience applauds. Various shots of the Breuers doing the quickstep in a spotlight. Various shots of teenage couples doing rock and roll style dancing (sanitised jiving!) M/S of audience clapping. All the male contestants (including the teenagers) wear dinner jackets, the women all wear big chiffon skirts (look like meringues). FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,