Puttin’ On The Ritz

Fred Astaire putting the savoir into faire. Timelessly cool.

Cool enough for vampires, too. Here’s Being Human’s homage, 40 seconds into the clip.

Swing Kids

Swing Kids is a 1993 film about an anti-Nazi German youth movement. They loved American jazz and swing music, which didn’t go down well with the authorities. The film is excellent, with Kenneth Branagh playing a creepily empathic Gestapo agent who is dating the protagonist’s mum. But the dance sequences are the core of the film, and someone has kindly put them all together in this video.