Swinging the Lambeth Walk
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.
About Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940)
Released in 1940, Swinging the Lambeth Walk is a music and animation film (United Kingdom). It was directed by Len Lye. With a runtime of 4m, the film averages 6.1/10 across 21 TMDB ratings.
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