Swinging the Lambeth Walk

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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.

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  • short film
  • paint on film

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Director

Len Lye

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United Kingdom

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Still from Swinging the Lambeth Walk

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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1 Feb 1940

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Swinging the Lambeth Walk was released on 1 February 1940.

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