VFLM 006 British Film Institute Sound Library Sound Library The Calusari - EFDSS, 1935. - 1 Film (48'56") b&w, sound

Film. Component.

With other items on DVD and video tape.

0:00-14:40 Calus dance (from south west Romania). The Romanian Calusari dancers filmed on their visit to London for the International Folk Dance Festival in July 1935 -- 14:41-44:47 Hora (chain dance). Romanian drama - characters include Turkish man and wife, and the devil. The drama features death and revival, and many sexual encounters. Flag dance. Pentecost dance. Jucatul copiilor (Play of the children) -- 44:48-48:55 New Year custom from north east Romania, Moldova. Characters include hobby horse (caiut), old man, and bear -- 48:56 Real bear being lead through the streets in Romania (possibly Bucarest?).

[The dance of life. Abbots Bromley. Calusari. Amherst. Display dance. Oslo Folk Dance Festival. Pamplona Festival] [Walk in Saint George. The Calusari. This is morris dancing]





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