Presenting Miss Jan's Highlights 1966
Standard 8mm film Colour Silent 1966 15:06
Summary: Amateur film of a recital by Miss Jan's students, some of whom lived on the Brandon Estate, Southwark.
Title number: 1079
LSA ID: LSA/1497
Description: Title Card: Presenting Miss Jan's Highlights 1966
The film opens with backstage scenes showing women doing the girls' hair and make-up and helping them with their costumes. In the recital, the girls perform songs or tap dances as solos, duets, and in groups. Sometimes they sing and dance in the same number. In one number, four girls pretend to be a rock band, pretending to play fake electric guitars, drums, and saxophone. It looks like the 'drum kit' is labelled the Brandon High Lights. Miss Jan performs a tap dance and sings in a quartet.
Title cards: The End; Our thanks to all those who made tonight possible
Further information: The Brandon Estate was built in 1958 and housed people from Bermondsey whose houses had been demolished in slum clearance. The residents formed several clubs, and the cine club filmed events run by the social club, which met above the library.
Keywords: Dance; recital; Performance
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Southwark
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