Danse au bivouac (1896) Alexandre Promio

Danse au bivouac ( Dance at the Camp ) is view number 266 in the • Playlist Film Catalog. We are in Vicálvaro, on the outskirts of Madrid, among the troops of His Majesty Alfonso XIII, who at the moment is only a ten-year-old boy. Alexandre Promio films this moment of leisure for the soldiers. They are perhaps dancing a jota, a typical Spanish folk dance, as the soldier dancing with his arms raised (as if he were playing castanets) would lead us to believe, but given the disorder, it is also possible that they were just imagining the music, as the viewers of the film would would later do.
The song in the background is Jota Aragonesa by Chuenga and Valverde performed by Banda Española and available on the Internet Archive: archive.org/de...
Texts and special contents of this edition by iconauta
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[@tlmoscow]

Beautifully restored, thank you.

[@justinparsons4538]

The little fella got clobbered

[@xzorby]

Awesome piece of film! I do think they're dancing to music, as they seem to be all dancing to the same tempo, they all stop dancing at the same time around 0:23, and start again together around 0:27. I think most of them are dancing fandango, not jota, but I could be wrong. Love the kid nearly getting knocked over, and the tall stoic guy ignoring the dancing and appearing to light a match or something

[@elianamarinho9542]

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