It was cute & funny how George kept dancing in the pool. I absolutely loved how George looked at Mary that way when he 1st saw her. I fell in love with his stare. He’s so handsome.
Doesn't the dancing-in-the-water look ad-libbed? Spontaneous? Donna Reed is laughing her face off. Seems like something Jimmy Stewart sprung on her. Amazing scene.
The way they danced unaware of the floor opening up behind them, immersed in their shared joy while coming within a step of falling in, captures a lot of what the movie is about. The way we find happiness and strive to live while knowing, and often forgetting, how fragile all of it is. What a beautiful visual metaphor, and an exciting one to watch.
I have seen this film a dozen times, but when I just watched this clip and the "Buffalo girls" music started up I got teary...guess I'm just an emotional old woman! 🤣
This scene looked terrific in the colorized version of the film .. I know it's a minor detail but to see the color of the pool along with everything else being in color was quire magical .. Even the scene prior to this one when George is having dinner with his father we can actually see the green in the vegetables they are eating and so many other details .. I understand that 99% of ppl would say the b&w og version is the one to watch. But I really enjoyed seeing this Xmas classic in color. I think the transfer is nothing short of outstanding and really adds new life to the film.
Doc Hollywood sent me here! I was a HS junior when I discovered this classic film! And yet the only high school dances I had were Valantines Sweethearts and Senior Prom. And this scene makes me wish my experiences with dances were like this. Especially since music peaked in the early 2010’s.
I actually think these kinds of dances are so inherently wild/crazy/silly, people who would normally feel way too self-conscious to dance (like me) and could join in with everyone else and just have a ball. Unlike today.
Believe it or not, have never seen this movie! I know people watch always at Christmas. Love, Jimmy Stewart! Perfect dance partners! Didn't even let a swimming pool stop them !!! 🥳
Pretty interesting how a town so poor like Bedford Falls could have a swimming pool beneath a retractable dance floor. This scene was filmed at the gymnasium at Beverly Hills High School.
Bedford Falls wasn't poor. Are they had Potter's slums but that was only some people and until they got a loan from Bailey Savings and Loan and got a nice house.
@@CliftonPhotographer Well how many high schools have you known that had their own swimming pools? And of those that did, how many had mechanized gym floors which closed above them?
Wasn't it over $50 bucks not paid for a hunting dog? He got drunk and broke into the guys house one night to get paid and started arguing and buddy shot him dead and skated due to forced entry.
Wow I'm 51 years old and I just learned during the year of the corona 2020- that was actually Alfalfa from The Little Rascals talking to Mary Jimmy Stewart came over and said stop annoying people , been watching that movie every year all my life and never knew that till I just saw a documentary on his life Carl " Alfalfa" Switzer.
at 1:45 the chap dancing from left to right past the camera always has me in stiches laughing🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣..no matter how many times I see this absolute classic fantastic movie.
This movie makes being popular and well-liked look so exhausting. The expectations, being discussed/scrutinized, people wanting your time and attention… Some types are naturally good at maintaining tons of relationships cuz it’s they know. It has upsides, but I’ve had friends like this and it’s way more than I could handle.
"In my arms you're gonna be... as is destiny." "If you don't believe in romance? Then you'll never come to that special dance." "Mary ... not just the girl you want next door, but next to you, on the dance floor." "With that perfect partner, dance is so much more. So much more." ~ Paul Jung
Funny how the guy opened the pool to humiliate George when he fell in the pool yet everyone went in anyone and the two guys were like "what the hell?" And went in lol?!
what high school is this in real life? I know the gym over the pool still existed in the nineties because another movie did a homage to this scene. Curious if it still exists?
Jake Jacobs: “This is the "Swim Gym" at Beverly Hills High School. Sax Elliott, the school's basketball coach is credited with the innovation - and others including the first use of glass backboards in basketball. Sax and his younger brother Ian were star USC athletes. Ian was killed 1943 in England piloting a B-17 bomber during the war.” MovieClips video
I went to Lane Tech High School in Chicago, IL, which has a pool. We were forced to swim for PE my freshman year, and I get the impression that no one wants to swim because then you have to rush to get dressed for your next class. If they built a "swim gym floor" there, then you don't let the gym coaches have the key to open the floor and they can't make anyone swim.
Dance is not one gender nor orientation… the interactions of humanity through purpose and joy… Friends… community. Larger understandings of connections. Healing, growth, education… Jimmy Stewart had an anxiety ptsd attack on screen during this movie…. Connections matter.
I heard on another RUclips video, that the saying just changes the town, in this case Buffalo, to the current town. Buffalo turned out to be the most popular one.
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." ~ Rumi "There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them." ~ Vicki Baum "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another." ~ Thomas Merton "An opus on life. Dance it out, to the full." ~ Paul Jung
![Bande à part (1964) - Dance scene [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/u1MKUJN7vUk/mqdefault.jpg)
I like how George continues dancing in the pool, making the best of the situation.
And Mary has just the most wonderful smile on her face while it's going on. Perhaps that part was improvised.
They all had fun including that older man
That first glance between them is EVERYTHING!!!🙏🏻❤
OMG yes. They're both struck by lightning. Amazingly played or staged or whatever.
This video clip just captures that moment perfectly. Never really realized that until I stumbled upon this post.
The way he just stopped dead in his tracks as if stunned by her beauty was just priceless and really made the scene for me.
My immediate reaction was: "oh no his phone!" but then i just remembered those people actually socialised amongst each other
Ah, that would never occur to me, guess it goes to show I was born and raised before cell phones!
The phone was outside for everybody the way it should be
I was always concerned with their expensive tuxedos and evening gowns, thinking, "Oh no! Their clothes are ruined!" 😳
Lmao
As much as I can’t be without my phone, I’m a 90’s baby who sometimes wish cell phones weren’t invented yet and we cannot get too distracted.
I watch this and think, "This is what high school dances should be like."
+Rachel F Exactly.
Rachel F These days, instead of the Charleston, high school kids do the Casper slide, Soulja Boy's crank that, & the Dougie
Joe Whitehead Or they twerk and grind, at least where I live...
Rachel F That to
Rachel F that’s what I think when I watch the Grease school dance scene. And I’m 19. Lol.
“Heeyyy, this is my dance!”
“Well why don’t you stop annoying people!”
“Oh, I’m sorr-HEEYYY!”
😂😂😂
That era when everyone is so polite and on protocol that their reaction is canned.
It’s Alfalfa.
Poor Alfalfa! 😔
That's gotta be one of the smoothest put offs in history...
It was cute & funny how George kept dancing in the pool. I absolutely loved how George looked at Mary that way when he 1st saw her. I fell in love with his stare. He’s so handsome.
Doesn't the dancing-in-the-water look ad-libbed? Spontaneous?
Donna Reed is laughing her face off. Seems like something Jimmy Stewart sprung on her.
Amazing scene.
I wish James Stewart was still alive. Like this comment if you think this is best Christmas movie ever
I keep this and miracle on 34th street together so I will have the best on hand
It wasn't a Christmas movie
@@rustykoehler2789 the last hour was the best representation of what we should be familiar with at years end
It's the best!
The way they danced unaware of the floor opening up behind them, immersed in their shared joy while coming within a step of falling in, captures a lot of what the movie is about. The way we find happiness and strive to live while knowing, and often forgetting, how fragile all of it is. What a beautiful visual metaphor, and an exciting one to watch.
I have seen this film a dozen times, but when I just watched this clip and the "Buffalo girls" music started up I got teary...guess I'm just an emotional old woman! 🤣
Only if high school dances these days were just as classy as this. I would have no problem going to a dance like this!
Donna Reed was gorgeous.
Alan DeMoss She sure was!! Violet was pretty too. :-)
I think it's pretty cool how Jimmy did that hand switching thing on his knees, so effortlessly.
I would love to see guys wear a tie and jacket again and actually know how to dance. It is so much fun
One of the greatest scenes ever filmed 😂
Jimmy Stewart said it was his favorite movie he did, so did Frank Capra. ❤️
In my book that title belongs to You Can’t Take It With You
Donna Reed just kills it in that scene. Can't help but replay that a billion times. Luv it! :)
Everything about this scene is just…perfect.
man alive i love this movie
Classic. A smile straight to my face.
The best dancing scene ever
For sure!
This scene looked terrific in the colorized version of the film .. I know it's a minor detail but to see the color of the pool along with everything else being in color was quire magical .. Even the scene prior to this one when George is having dinner with his father we can actually see the green in the vegetables they are eating and so many other details .. I understand that 99% of ppl would say the b&w og version is the one to watch.
But I really enjoyed seeing this Xmas classic in color. I think the transfer is nothing short of outstanding and really adds new life to the film.
I personally have only watched in black and white but more out of respect of family tradition but nethertheless this movie is magnificent
A smile like that would stop u dead in your tracks. ❤
I like how everybody got in the pool and weren’t so uptight. Even the one who opened the hatch dove in
Love at First Sight
The classics knew how to pull off the love story
"Is this the ear you can't hear out of? George Bailey, I'll love you till the day I die."
Tough to find the good ones these days
Such a big part of my child hood. Great memories. This is great cinema this movie should only be in black and white.
Doc Hollywood sent me here! I was a HS junior when I discovered this classic film! And yet the only high school dances I had were Valantines Sweethearts and Senior Prom. And this scene makes me wish my experiences with dances were like this. Especially since music peaked in the early 2010’s.
I actually think these kinds of dances are so inherently wild/crazy/silly, people who would normally feel way too self-conscious to dance (like me) and could join in with everyone else and just have a ball. Unlike today.
I have autism with anxiety and I know how you feel
Believe it or not, have never seen this movie! I know people watch always at Christmas. Love, Jimmy Stewart!
Perfect dance partners! Didn't even let a swimming pool stop them !!! 🥳
Gotta watch!
No way! This movie made me a fan of him
I expected Alfalfa at any moment to get up on stage and sing the Barber of Seville.
DIED HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
lol
and then george and mary could chuck some rotten vegetables at him and save us all an ear ache!
and as a follow up have bubbles come out as he sings won't you be my sweetheart lol. Good times.
@@andyb439 you my friend know good humor. Cheers!
My favorite part of the whole movie is at 3:54 when the old principal dude is yelling for them to get out but then he says screw it and jumps in too.
Fantastic moment! Impossible not to laugh at!
One of my favorite parts of this movie!😂
It foreshadows all those 80's MTV videos where the cop blows the whistle for everybody to stop dancing, but then inexplicably starts dancing.
My favorite part of the movie my Dad and I have watched this every Christmas Eve it's been a family tradition for years.
Pretty interesting how a town so poor like Bedford Falls could have a swimming pool beneath a retractable dance floor. This scene was filmed at the gymnasium at Beverly Hills High School.
Bedford Falls wasn't poor. Are they had Potter's slums but that was only some people and until they got a loan from Bailey Savings and Loan and got a nice house.
@@CliftonPhotographer Well how many high schools have you known that had their own swimming pools? And of those that did, how many had mechanized gym floors which closed above them?
@@jrcasselman I've only been to one high school. Check with Woody Allen or Seinfeld, I think they hang around high schools...
@@CliftonPhotographer Did your high school have a swimming pool?
C.photo, ouch good burn.
At 2:19 when I saw that as a kid. I thought that was the most awesome dance move. Lol
I would have love to go to a party 1920 style with that music looks fun
You could probably find one! Google flapper or 20's dances. Good luck and enjoy!
So that was Alfalfa (Carl Switzer) who he stole Mary from?
I love that movie so much!!!
My favorite scene in the whole movie!
I saw this movie recently for the first time. I couldn't believe these were high school kids unless teenagers back in those days looked 35.
I know, always cracked me up....
Even accounting for kids looking a little older back then, it was still crazy
I thought that was Alfalfa!!!!!
Of course not. They had to get actors who would age with the parts.
That's been a long standing issue in movies and on TV, teenager roles are played by actors up to twice their supposed age
Is that really all you got from this classic extraordinary film that has so many insights into the human condition? Jeeeez .....
Took me a LOT of practicing but I can do it now and really well! So much fun doing the Charleston to this
Alfalfa grew up to be a jealous hater.
Switzer was killed about ten years later, in his early 30's
Wasn't it over $50 bucks not paid for a hunting dog? He got drunk and broke into the guys house one night to get paid and started arguing and buddy shot him dead and skated due to forced entry.
@@onceuponatimeintoronto891 Sounds right, yes.
He was a stage brat
No. A witness said it was murder. He was killed as he was leaving.
Wow I'm 51 years old and I just learned during the year of the corona 2020- that was actually Alfalfa from The Little Rascals talking to Mary Jimmy Stewart came over and said stop annoying people , been watching that movie every year all my life and never knew that till I just saw a documentary on his life Carl " Alfalfa" Switzer.
at 1:45 the chap dancing from left to right past the camera always has me in stiches laughing🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣..no matter how many times I see this absolute classic fantastic movie.
I never realized the guy who opened the floor was Alfalfa from "The Little Rascals." (Carl Switzer)
A lot of ruined cell phones that night.
Chuck Tenney cellphones weren’t around at the time
@@modernaries9852
Are you sure?
Feels Man Pretty sure they were around... there are cave paintings and Egyptian hieroglyphics depicting the iPhone.
Feels Man Feels Man Pretty sure they were around... there are cave paintings and Egyptian hieroglyphics depicting the iPhone.
@@modernaries9852 ....the fact that there were no cell phones back then, was the joke.....
Love at first sight...❤❤❤
Love the guy dancing at 1:45 !
Same!
I love the couple at 1:45 dancing to the left of George and Mary- they are so happy! ❤
Best movie ever
Marty was the man. He just plays wingman for the both of them, notices his work is done, and quickly peaces out of the movie lol.
Is the way Marty McFly set up his father George at a dance in any way a tribute to this movie?
That many folks dancing the Charleston with all the kicks involved, that close together, would require an OHSA permit today.
The kid that opens the moveable floor is Alfalfa from The Little Rascals.
Yes it's interesting to know,find out, & see how Carl "Alf Alfa" Switzer is in the dance scene.
This movie makes being popular and well-liked look so exhausting. The expectations, being discussed/scrutinized, people wanting your time and attention…
Some types are naturally good at maintaining tons of relationships cuz it’s they know. It has upsides, but I’ve had friends like this and it’s way more than I could handle.
Mary Hatch has been my dream woman since I was kid.
"In my arms you're gonna be... as is destiny."
"If you don't believe in romance? Then you'll never come to that special dance."
"Mary ... not just the girl you want next door, but next to you, on the dance floor."
"With that perfect partner, dance is so much more. So much more."
~ Paul Jung
Funny how the guy opened the pool to humiliate George when he fell in the pool yet everyone went in anyone and the two guys were like "what the hell?" And went in lol?!
Isn't the water too shallow to dive in like that?
the jealous kid is Alfalfa (from the little rascals) .
Yes, he is. He is Carl Switzer; also he was in the 10 commandments
It seems like the 1920's decade was one big party I missed out on. But then I wasn't born yet.
After WWI & before the Depression
I see Carl Switzer, he was a good actor. Notice how George and Mary are still dancing in the water.....?
My favorite scene!
My grandma was the same age as Mary . To think that in the 1920’s they already had covered swimming pools somewhere
It's Alfalfa!
Yep. it was
Sad way how he died.
What is the minute and seconds mark? I cant recognise Carl Switzer
You can hear him speaking at 0:24, and you can see him on the right side of the screen at 0:40.
my 13 yr old daughter recognized him
0:42 2:21 Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer from the Little Rascals
It’s a cameo from Alfalfa! Are there others from Little Rascals
Great movie.
2:16, I saw that scene of AMC (American Movie Classics) Feature Presentation bumper at the end!
what high school is this in real life? I know the gym over the pool still existed in the nineties because another movie did a homage to this scene. Curious if it still exists?
MegaMoose1989 Beverly Hills High School.................
+MegaMoose1989 hey arnold also did a tribute to this scene XD
Jake Jacobs: “This is the "Swim Gym" at Beverly Hills High School. Sax Elliott, the school's basketball coach is credited with the innovation - and others including the first use of glass backboards in basketball. Sax and his younger brother Ian were star USC athletes. Ian was killed 1943 in England piloting a B-17 bomber during the war.” MovieClips video
I went to Lane Tech High School in Chicago, IL, which has a pool. We were forced to swim for PE my freshman year, and I get the impression that no one wants to swim because then you have to rush to get dressed for your next class. If they built a "swim gym floor" there, then you don't let the gym coaches have the key to open the floor and they can't make anyone swim.
The name of the song during the dance, please?
“The Charleston”…very popular in that era written by James Johnson
Dance is not one gender nor orientation… the interactions of humanity through purpose and joy… Friends… community. Larger understandings of connections.
Healing, growth, education…
Jimmy Stewart had an anxiety ptsd attack on screen during this movie….
Connections matter.
THAT'S WHAT I CALL.. LOVE AT 1ST SIGHT 😍
I like this scene from the movie
And people say movies from the 20s and 30s are boring
Lunar Bloodmoon It's from '46.
Lunar Bloodmoon 😂😳
Not always the case! I’ve discovered this movie in high school during a Golden Age of Hollywood phase
love this thank you for proving to husband(youngster) this was q famous actor♡ Speaking of Little rascals ALFALFA!!!!◇♡
Every high school dance must always end with a swimming pool!
Is that alfalfa
Yes
I love this movie and also the social network with Jesse Eisenhower as Mark Zuvkerguwr
3:30 I think Jimmy dancing in the water was not in the script Donna is laughing 😆
Well I’m sorr- HEY!!!
One of Carl Switzer's pranks.
LOL, not nearly as bad as when he drowned the goat !
Is that alfalfa?? Please tell me!!?
Yes.
Fun fact, the annoying guy is Alfalfa from little rascals
the only person i can really see as a teenager here is carl switzer, but that was his charm, wasn’t it? his baby face and freckles.
What happened in the alternate 1928, the one where George was never born? Did the kids just stand on the floor and not dance?
Mary would have been so annoyed by Freddie that she would have left the ball early.
Alfalfa still causing trouble even after the My Gang series 😂What's funny is he still had a bit of a cowlick in this movie.
I have no idea what this song is and it’s always stuck in my head :/
I heard on another RUclips video, that the saying just changes the town, in this case Buffalo, to the current town. Buffalo turned out to be the most popular one.
It's just called "Charleston" ruclips.net/video/o_8z2onSYnI/видео.html
The song is called The Charleston.
Carl Switzer reminds me of Kramer in Seinfeld
Anyone know the name of the old man in the center at 3:06 ?
Now, back to my story, see!
Oh why don't you stop annoying people!
Feels Man Ahahahaha!! I love this part!! 😂
What's that song they dance to? (Second song)
Charleston (dance).
2:20 What's a matter Alfalfa?
S. Adam Bernstein “Othello.”
His girl got swept out from underneath him
That was Alfalfa that opened the pool! 😂
Violet was so disappointed…
Who is the actress at the start of this video?
Gloria Grahame
2:14 Dude Love Dance!
?
Filmed at my school
Song name?
The Charleston!
Does anyone notice that alfalfa from the little rascals is the guy that made the floor open to a pool!😅
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." ~ Rumi
"There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them." ~ Vicki Baum
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another." ~ Thomas Merton
"An opus on life. Dance it out, to the full." ~ Paul Jung
That fella dancing with Mary was Alfafa from the little rascals
Poor Alfalfa.