The Spirit Moves (1987)
- Directed by
- Mura Dehn
- Genre
- documentary, music
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary uses rare archival footage to show the history of African-American social dance from 1900 to 1986. It was filmed over thirty years by Mura Dehn and runs nearly six hours in its complete form.
historicalarchivalcelebratoryobservationaleducationalrhythmiccultural
What happens
The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance on Film, 1900–1986 is a documentary film by Mura Dehn chronicling the evolution of African-American social dance throughout most of the 20th century. In its original form it consists of nearly six hours of rare archival footage shot over the course of thirty years. Since 1987 this complete version has only been available for viewing at a select few institutions (the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York City and the Smithsonian). In 2008 the first three parts of Dehn's work, totaling two hours, were remastered and released on DVD by Dancetime Publications. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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