This clip is taken from a longer film found on YouTube:

…called “Inéditos ♯8”, that is, number eight in a series of similar films also posted on YouTube. Under this one it reads:
“Published on Feb 4, 2014
Ciclo &”cineastas del domingo”: pelicula de cowboys, hecha sobre los años 50 por un grupo de amigos.
• Cómo se divertían nuestros padres y abuelos: aspectos de una “cultura juvenil” (años 30 – 40).
• Primera entrega de “cine interruptus”: una película de 1955 – Martín Aquino – emprendida por Miguel Angel Melino, de la que solo ha quedado media hora de tomas sin sonido, reconstruida por INÉDITOS.”

For which Google Translate gives as:

“Published on Feb 4, 2014
Cycle “Sunday filmmakers”: cowboy movie, made over the 50s by a group of friends.
• How our parents and grandparents enjoyed themselves: aspects of a “youth culture” (years 30 – 40).
• First installment of “cinema interruptus”: a 1955 film – Martín Aquino – undertaken by Miguel Angel Melino, of which only half an hour of shots without sound, rebuilt by INÉDITOS.”

This clip also resembles one posted on the Facebook page of Mundo Uruguayo where it has an added modern caption reading “Un rancho de fin de semana, Montevideo, 1928”which Google Translate gives as “A weekend ranch, Montevideo, 1928”

This film clip was drawn to my attention in March 2017 by Gonzalo Collazo, Co-founder of The Queer Tango Image Archive. It is the earliest footage we know of of men dancing tango together.

It is notable for NOT being a performance, except in the sense of the men “performing” in an amateur way for the camera. It shows one man practicing his steps, solo; two men dancing together; two men bickering about whether or not, or how to embrace – without sound, it is hard to say.

This seems to be an all-male rural picnic or retreat of some kind – perhaps a football team? – with much horseplay elsewhere in the film. I make this football suggestion mindful of the striking image we already have – 00019 – which originated from the possessions of Eduard Moreira Bahnson’s grandfather, which shows a football team – in shorts and striped shirts, dancing tango in the countryside, probably in the Departments of San José or Canelones, Uruguay.

This early footage confirms the suggestion made in, among other places, my paper, “Queer Tango’s ‘Image Problem’: Men, Intimacy and Pictures from the Past” – see “Links to papers” on this website, that historically, it was common for men to dance tango together for pleasure and enjoyment.

What do you believe the copyright status of this image to be?
Ray Batchelor believes: “The image is out of copyright.”

The image url:
https://youtu.be/zAZ1GmXNJ90