Fred Astaire Dancing On The Ceiling
Fred astaire dances on the ceiling in royal wedding 1951.
Fred astaire dancing on the ceiling. Figuring out fred astaire s dance on the ceiling from royal wedding. A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in london during the royal wedding. She came late to the production to replace judy garland due to her repeated absences.
Royal wedding 1951 it never ceases to amaze me how a great dancer like fred astaire can take the simplest prop and do something magical with it. Famed broadway dancer fred astaire popularized this method in a dancing routine from the 1951 movie royal wedding. I have to give jane powell a lot of credit.
In order to achieve this feat the filmmakers had the whole thing inside a steel cage and strapped the props and camera men down as everything except astaire rotated. Hang on to your chairs and lamps. This is you re all the world to me fred astaire s famous 1951 ceiling dance scene in royal wedding how did he defy gravity.
Like dancing on the ceiling. Directed by stanley donen. Also the camera remains attached to the rotating room making it appear as though the dancers are defying gravity.
The room in the video actually rotates as a unit and all of the furniture is nailed to the walls and ceiling. We kept that secret under wraps at our house for a long time so the kids could create a few of their own theories.