Swinging the Lambeth Walk

Swinging the Lambeth Walk

1940
4m
6.0

6.0/10

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Music Animation
Overview

Len Lye’s camera-less film animates “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk—featuring Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stéphane Grappelli on violin—through scratched and painted imagery directly on celluloid. Sponsored by the Tourist and Industrial Development Association after Lye and his family fell into hardship, the film blends vibrant visual rhythms with music, free of advertising slogans, and stands out as one of Lye’s most playful experiments in direct cinema.

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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Countries
United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
No Language

Keywords

short film paint on film

Quick Facts

Release Date February 1, 1940
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0033123

Cast

Key Crew

Len Lye
Director