Watch Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940) Online

Lye edited together “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk (including Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stephane Grapelli on violin), combining them with a particularly diverse range of direct film images, scratched as well as painted. He was particularly pleased with a final guitar solo (with a vibrating horizontal line) and double bass solo (with a stomping vertical line). For this film Lye did not have to include any advertising slogans; friends at the Tourist and Industrial Development Association, shocked to learn that Lye and his family had become destitute, arranged for TIDA to sponsor the film – to the horror of government bureaucrats who could not understand why a popular dance was being treated as a tourist attraction. - Harvard Film Archive Read More

Watch Swinging the Lambeth Walk online. Featuring , Swinging the Lambeth Walk is classified as Music and Animation genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5.816. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 1 services such as Fandor. The movie was filmed in United Kingdom and was released on 1940. Swinging the Lambeth Walk was directed by Len Lye. Read Less