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Cheyenne Mountain Dancers - Star by the Right

Creator: Lloyd Shaw

First in a series of three silent films made to accompany Shaw's 1947 recordings with the "Duel in the Sun" Orchestra. Working from an incomplete copy of the footage, we have attempted to create an approximate synchronization of video to audio. As far as we know, these are the only moving images of the Cheyenne Mountain Dancers doing complete squares.

More information about the recordings, the figures in this dance, and their location in Shaw's Cowboy Dances book

Subjects: Traditional Western (pre-1940), Transitional/Western 1940s
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Item Relations

Item: Cowboy Dances - records and movies is related to This Item
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Citation

Lloyd Shaw, “Cheyenne Mountain Dancers - Star by the Right,” Square Dance History Project, accessed February 23, 2025, http://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/767.
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