Ray Batchelor writes: This clip comes from this YouTube cartoon: https://youtu.be/OXPAU5gM-ug Not quite a tango, but its close, Latin cousin (from an early 20th century North American perspective) the so-called “Apache” dance and a companion piece to 00087 “Popeye (almost) Tangos with Bluto, 1934 [still taken from cartoon]” Interestingly, each
Ray Batchelor writes: “Still taken from “Popeye The Sailor Man-Episode No.016 (The Dance Contest) (1934)” found on YouTube, 19th January 2017. Men can dance with each other – as long as long they fight! Popeye tangos with Bluto, 1934 [link to their dance – below] I am researching a paper
Ray Batchelor writes: “The caricaturist, Georges Gousat, better known as “Sem”, was famous for savagely satirising French society. In 1913, he published “Tangoville sur Mer”, a book of cartoons based on what he saw (or what he imagined) while on a trip to the fashionable resort at Deauville. In among