Movies with Lindy Hop: Swing Kids

SAVOYSTYLE SHOP Vintage Videos Instructional Videos Frankie Manning CD Norma Miller Book "Can't Top" Videos BIOGRAPHIES *First Generation:* Shorty George Leroy Stretch Jones Twistmouth George The Golden Age: Whitey's Lindy Hprs. Frankie Manning Norma Miller Sandra Gibson Ann Johnson Dorothy Johnson Norma Miller	Swing Kids 1993 Directed by Thomas Carter. The Lindy Hop scenes in this film were choreographed by Otis Sallid with Ryan Francois, a very talented young Lindy Hopper, as Assistant Choreographer. Ryan's influence can be seen in many of the dancer's moves. Sallid met Francois while working on the film Malcolm X. Both of these films have had an important influence on the revival of swing music and dancing among young people.
Al Minns Frankie Manning Mildred Pollard Billy Ricker Willa Mae Ricker Russell Williams MOVIES After Seben The Big Apple Call Of The Jitterbug Can't Top the Lindy H Cootie Williams Cottontail Day At The Races	This feature film is based on the true story of the role that jazz music and dancing played in Nazi Germany. The German teenager's unabashed admiration for the likes of Louis Armstrong, a Black, Benny Goodman, a Jew, and Django Rinehart, a Gypsy , was in direct defiance of the Nazis and their drive for "pure" Aryan dominance. This video is no longer available commercially in the US. However, you can get it at SavoyStyle Swing Dance Shop.
	Written and researched by Judy Pritchett with Frankie Manning (C)1995,1996,1997. May be reproduced only with explicit written permission. Last updated:1 September 1997.Send your suggestions, corrections or comments to judyp@mcn.org This Archive is also part of the World Lindy Hop Federation Archives maintained by Keith Hughes.