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.
Len Lye
Director
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Day & Night77%
Hi Stranger65%
Lorenzo63%
Once Upon a Studio82%
Minions & More Volume 170%
Lou75%
Yellow Is the New Black65%
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales69%
Trouble65%
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Minions & More 273%
Party Central67%
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Sing71%
Charming63%
Dante's Lunch68%
Canvas63%
Make Mine Music58%
Tangled Ever After71%
