Are there Tango movie clips from before 1935 ?

opendoor

opendoor

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This sequence actually is the vuelta americana we discussed elsewhere. Seems that the salida americana and the vuelta americana hark back to Rodolfo Valentino the great early promoter of the argentine tango.

http://www.dance-forums.com/showthread.php?t=33951
dance-forums.com/showthread.php?t=33951

Does someone here know something about the other tango pioneer Ricardo Guiraldes?

..it is thought that Tango was first demonstrated by the Argentinean playboy Ricardo Guiraldes in 1910/1911 in Paris. It was so different from the dances of the time and considered somewhat obscene. It challenged the conventions of acceptable public behavior of the time... However, the rapid acceptance by the people of Europe of the dance, invariably meant that it was re-exported back to Buenos Aires...
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from http://www.centralhome.com/ballroomcountry/argentine-tango-history.htm
 
Since all this time has gone by....
Surely you did a google search?
There appears to be a writer by that name who lived in Paris and Buenos Aires, etc.
Could be the the same person?
 
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/cronicas/el_pollo_ricardo.asp

Who was this Pollo? First of all I want to clear out an existing confusion. A well-known sports journalist who is used to dive into other proposals, on one occasion, talked for a long time about this tango and the title character in his radio program, but not revealing immediately his true identity. When he discloses the incognita, he mentions Ricardo Güiraldes. Even though the latter was a tango dancer and had the same first name, he was not the person to whom the piece was dedicated.
 
That last link is a great page if you want to see a sentada danced in 1942 (was that the Golden Age?, Oh, probably just a pose.)

Click the link to read more about El Pibe Palermo, who could dance " old stream style, canyengue, tango influenced milonga, tango-milonga; when he was requested "encores", tango with half corte (like his father used to dance) and, to end, tango for salon or slow tango: La cumparsita. So he achieved another deserved nickname: the "King of Tango"."

Just about every time I look into tango history, I end up reinforcing my view that there was/is no one way to do this dance that has such a long history.
 
opendoor said:
Dont know if these 2 vids already have been posted? They are only 4 years younger than the "Four Horsemen": I find them interesting because they originate from a period without a sharp distinction between international, standard, european, argentine, social, and ballroom a.s.o. dancing:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=8188

and

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=19344
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These are brilliant indeed. Completely unpretentious and eerily modern. I wonder when did that air of pretentiousness creep into standard and ballroom tango? (current individual pretentious AT dancers notwithstanding!)
 
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