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Just Perfect 1965 Clog Dance Movie. Yes I Filmed It & Here Is The Proof

Some of my subscribers may have seen this clip from my 1965 documentary for television, my first, filmed in the mountains of North Carolina, Appalachia, following the great musicologist Bascom Lamar Lunsford. In this scene during a single moment, I filmed a girl clogging and you can see in the mirror behind me, me.... with my heavy camera and my bit of belly. In this clip I have extended that scene since subscribers have asked me to "freeze" it. Here's the story: In 1965 I was making my first documentary for television. I once titled it Music Makers of the Blue Ridge but these days I title it Bluegrass Roots. I was 23 years old and I was headed to the mountains of North Carolina, to Asheville, to meet with and film 82 year old Bascom Lamar Lunsford. I had written him a letter asking if I could accompany him as he sought talent for his great music and clog dance festival - the Asheville Mountain music Festival which had been going on since 1929! I spent three weeks shooting this film with Bascom and his wife Freda. I was filming with a 16 mm sound camera and a friend carrying a Nagra audio recorder. Bascom told me that he was going to invite a clog dance group to his house In South Turkey Creek North Carolina for a dance demonstration. He said he would roll up the rug in his living room so we could hear the feet as they clogged on the wooden floor. And so this scene happened and I absolutely loved filming it. Although my camera rig was 49 pounds with the battery, I danced with the dancers with glee and recorded one of the best scenes that I have ever filmed. Clog dancing at its best. Local folk. Just having fun. And the musicians? The best in bluegrass or mountain if you want to call it that or old timey if you want to call it that. The musicians included Obray Ramsey and Bascom's relative Ray Lunsford. In one moment you can see me & my camera in the mirror filming the scene. After all these years I still love Mountain music and dance. I have been in touch with several of the performers and some are still alive and some are still dancing in the mountains of North Carolina – the Appalachian mountains – THE center as far as I'm concerned, of spectacular bluegrass and country music. If you have enjoyed watching this clip, please click the super thanks button below the video screen to the right side. It will help keep me going sharing more of my film clips with you. The one hour film ran in the primetime in 1965 and got the cover i've TV Guide with a fabulous review. Today it is considered a classic and I am proud that so many subscribers and others have chosen to watch it – many more than once. Thank you Bascom Lamar Lunsford and all those who appeared with him in my film.