About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Irene Castle day

Irene Castle day

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
General Dance Video Archive

This Item

Irene Castle day

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Irene Castle day
Names
Castle, Irene, 1893-1969 (Dancer)
Fisher, Alex (Dancer)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (Associated name)
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) (Event place)
Collection

General Dance Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1939-07-29
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 6952
Topics
Castle walk (Dance)
Castle waltz (Dance)
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Motion pictures
Documentary films
Notes
Venue: Motion picture short filmed at the New York World's Fair on Irene Castle Day, July 29, 1939.
Ownership: Film preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Statement of responsibility: Director: George Enzinger (or Engzinger).
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (5 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4 in.
Description
Irene Castle, partnered by Alex Fisher, performs the Castle waltz (accompanied by Noel Coward's I'll follow my secret heart) and the Castle walk (accompanied by Eubie Blake's I'm just wild about Harry) at the outdoor dance pavilion in the 1939 New York World's Fair. Voice-over introduction.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY906003950-F
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12168234
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): cb53fd90-81ba-0138-ac2c-6f1f4ded57fe
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1893: Creator Born
  • 1939: Created
  • 1969: Creator Died
  • 2020: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Irene Castle day" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4ff7ec06-89a8-4aa1-b8a2-746653d616d7

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Irene Castle day" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4ff7ec06-89a8-4aa1-b8a2-746653d616d7

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1939). Irene Castle day Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4ff7ec06-89a8-4aa1-b8a2-746653d616d7

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4ff7ec06-89a8-4aa1-b8a2-746653d616d7 | title= (moving image) Irene Castle day, (1939)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 19, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Irene Castle day