Cleopatra's Nightmare - Sand Dance
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- Wilson, Keppel & Betty - 1930s' British Music Hall stars perform their legendary dance routine. Formed in America in 1917, the trio were still going strong in the 1950s carrying with them at all times their own personal sand - even when they played in Las Vegas! It is said there were six Bettys over the decades!
- Komedie
Walk like an Egyptian and a breakdance, these guys were astonishing
Only found out this week that one of the Betty's was my Wife's Auntie, she is thrilled to be able to see a family member on screen, even not knowing which lady it was likely to be, we have photos but still can't decide from the film clips as they are very grainy. What we do know is that she was only a young woman who was a fabulous gymnast and dancer. Kevin
Wonderful to see the clips, few exist now, my grandfather was a close friend of Joe Keppel, they both came for the same street in Cork, Ireland, and he nearly joined the act in the early days.
just magnificent surely someone will enter britains got talent and resurrect this. choreography and timing is spot on
Their own personal sand, I love it.
Fantastic my mum told me about WKB when I was a little boy and now Im 45 I still laugh at this film thanks for the memory .
A classic music hall act. Wonderful stuff. Thanks for posting!
this is fabulous! you won't see this today, or anytime soon....
truly a lost art...
cheers 👍 🍻
Actually I’m waiting for a woke comment complaining about something.😢
absolute genius. guaranteed smile on my face every time
A classic! I have been searching for footage of these guys for years.
Send this act together with other notable souvenirs into a space capsule to articulate to aliens what our civilisation was all about.
ОМГ, да тут и элементы брейк данса😅, получила удовольствие! Спасибо!
Still it's working beautiful.
Thanks.
1st seen this in the 70s as a kid ,!
i just read a biography and betty was replaced a few times, it wasnt always the same girl, but i remember them as a child and they were funny, and indeed still are
Betty’s granddaughter eventually appeared in the same role, astonishing how entertaining this trio was/is!
Yes I also saw this act on TV about 20 years ago. They are amazing. BETTY is a magnificent woman. Thank you. Thank you.
What a treat.... Thanks for posting.....
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!
Oh wonderful...., Wilson Keppel and Betty.
Thanks for posting , this is very difficult to find and well worth watching.
Thanks, Hotun! Saw them in panto in Oxford as a child, racked my memory for their names as I'm engaged in a U3A project on childhood memoirs. It's great to find this footage. And happily, traditional Panto survives - Cinderella at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, this year, same great slapstick, same old gags, same magic.
This is so corny, but entertaining.
It wouldn't go down today though. Music with more than 6 notes, dancing with more than 6 steps and no swearing.
I may be getting older, but...BRING BACK THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
My Father always used to say in a joke ( having seen them many times ) that Wilson and Keppel were always the same but Betty was always changing ha ha.
What a good job someone had the common sense to film this or we would never know.
Unlike today with all sorts of tech and nobody films anything for future generations.
They performed this for Joseph Goebells in 1936 in Berlin who declared it indecent!
love it more every time i watch it.
i love this so much
Simply beautiful!
Saw these live at York Empire when a small boy.
Michael Jackson eat your heart out.
fuck , you must be old,,!!
You must be young!
How I love this act!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT
perfection!
Absolutely brilliant 👏 👍🇬🇧🏆
i did know there were three, i have this clip on my favourites and remember watching it as a child,
Hahaa :O One of the men was my great great great great uncle !! Lol !!
just fab stuff!
coracle woman
Brilliant! How do they keep a straight face?
fucking class !!
That looks damn hard to do. Not saying that other dances are less complex or longer. Most movies nowadays would have has several scene cuts to give the actors a few moments of rest. But that part where they're walking back to front is very difficult to pull off without loads of practice.
Masterful! So funny! And bizzarely enough very similar to a dance routine I and my colleagues do in a intermezzo in The imaginary invalid by Molière, called "The moorish dancers".
very good
i have to say, they were good,
Sorry! an out of control tablet! Merry Christmas! (and a wonderful performance,btw).I' ve been looking for this for many moons...
Hahahahha! I love this
too true
Ha! They put Toast & Peacock to shame!
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hahhahaha this makes me chuckle
is it possible to get a dvd of these guys, they are great!
1930s, / would , be, ,great now, 2018,!!
@youssarian99 - that's exactly what I was expecting to hear, that is why I just put the search in to CZcams - I feel cheated! :-)
Proof that break dancing was invented in 1899
What's the name of the biography and does it have an ISBN number by any chance? - I am very keen to find out more about these marvellous performers
Was this the reason the British Government created the Ministry of Silly Walks? ;)
The ministry was founded to regulate an outbreak of morris dancing; Wilson and Kepel (part of the rehab' program) went to Berlin in 1936 but the lederhosen strain of the disease proved too virulent.
Good one! Not many would understand that reference.
Look them up on wiki?
OK someone please point out where in this video is that 9-bar piece that we've all come to associate with being Egyptian... that do-do do do do do-do do-do do part.
I know this is can answer 4 years on but it starts at 1 minute 30, the music is known as the sand dance but is really named The Egyptian Ballet ☺ hope you don't mind this message now.
It was not always the same Betty, but they were good
Sand Dance
For some strange reason, i insist on cslling this trio. Freeman Hardy and Willis. Daft, i know.
sorry youssarian91, I put in 99 in error!
Theres a point at 2:34 where he is Moon Walking. Now you know where Michael Jackson pinched it from.
Забавно танцуют дядьки👬 с усами в набедренных повязках и чёрных труселях
Как один из них 1:45 жеманно он поднимет повязку чтобы показать что под неё находится 🙊🙉🙈
@mommymoonchild
Sound like Borat dance
AIUI there were 3 Bettys - each new one being the daughter of her predecessor.
Can someone post this great clip in better resoloution - no excuse for 144 these days
can't find much about their personal lives, don't think the two men ever married and there's no mention of girlfriends. probably a good indication they were both gay.
Oh shut up. Probably a good indication they never found the right women.
@@marywilliams9858 uh yeah, sure... ; - )
@@marywilliams9858
Don't encourage him, Mary. If we ignore him, maybe he'll go away.
Is this racist? I sure hope not.
Nope, Tutankhamuns tomb had recently been opened so anything Egyptian was very fashionable at that time and WK&B were a natural spin off of that, this is (as were most theatre acts in those days that mimicked other cultures in times when foreign actually was foreign) merely innocent parody, the comedy isn't aimed at Egyptian culture or dance it's about how daft THEY look doing it as two skinny lanky angular white men (enhanced by their angular moustaches)
No it's not racist!
They are depicting ancient Egyptians from thousands of years ago.
Wilson, Keppel and Betty performed the act for King Farouk of Egypt, and he laughed greatly during the performance.
The act is an entertaining homage to ancient Egypt and capitalized on the worldwide excitement following the discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in 1922.
sorry youssarian91, I put in 99 in error!