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I have a question: What's the melody Dickson was playing called?
Or, What melody did he play?
This page needs to be cleaned up.
From the article: "...there is no evidence that Dickson intended to present the men—presumably employees of the Edison studio—as a romantic couple."
Well, there is the suggestion in the tune Dickson plays. The lyrics to "Song of the Cabin Boy" are about a cabin boy on a ship crewed entirely by men with no women in sight. Whether contemporary audiences would have interpreted two men dancing to this song to be gay, probably not, but it seems clear to me Dickson was going for some kind of joke.
Incidentally, a short called "The Gay Brothers" did (and possibly does) exist, but the article is correct in saying this film isn't it. I've never seen it and I'm uncertain if it's even still extant, but I'd wager it's using the term "gay" in the same way the later short "The Gay Shoe Clerk" does--fresh and a bit cheeky, not homosexual. -- Franz 04:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
In re, the matter of the WikiProject Films assessment, it is easy enough to determine that the Start-class tag is out-of-date by comparing the current article to the state of the article when the tag was applied on August 27: article's state after last edit before 8/27/06. In fact, the original assessment tag was misapplied: the article was identified as at a stub at that point, so either (a) the WikiProjects tag should have been Stub-class, or (b) the stub tag should have been removed from the article when the Start-class assessment was made. Of course, a new assesment would be appreciated.— DCGeist 20:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC) {subsequently signed/date-stamped; sorry I left it out; concentrating on figuring out how to link to the old version of the article, which I'd never done before— DCGeist 23:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)}
The lads are very close in timing and space, but their embrace is symmetrical, suggesting it's not the usual kind of partner-dance that relies on lead-and-follow for timing. It's hard to make out the footwork: just a one-two-three-tap - is it an identifiable named dance ? -- 195.137.93.171 ( talk) 18:09, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
https://www.dancilla.com/wiki/index.php/Fingerlestanz
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I have a question: What's the melody Dickson was playing called?
Or, What melody did he play?
This page needs to be cleaned up.
From the article: "...there is no evidence that Dickson intended to present the men—presumably employees of the Edison studio—as a romantic couple."
Well, there is the suggestion in the tune Dickson plays. The lyrics to "Song of the Cabin Boy" are about a cabin boy on a ship crewed entirely by men with no women in sight. Whether contemporary audiences would have interpreted two men dancing to this song to be gay, probably not, but it seems clear to me Dickson was going for some kind of joke.
Incidentally, a short called "The Gay Brothers" did (and possibly does) exist, but the article is correct in saying this film isn't it. I've never seen it and I'm uncertain if it's even still extant, but I'd wager it's using the term "gay" in the same way the later short "The Gay Shoe Clerk" does--fresh and a bit cheeky, not homosexual. -- Franz 04:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
In re, the matter of the WikiProject Films assessment, it is easy enough to determine that the Start-class tag is out-of-date by comparing the current article to the state of the article when the tag was applied on August 27: article's state after last edit before 8/27/06. In fact, the original assessment tag was misapplied: the article was identified as at a stub at that point, so either (a) the WikiProjects tag should have been Stub-class, or (b) the stub tag should have been removed from the article when the Start-class assessment was made. Of course, a new assesment would be appreciated.— DCGeist 20:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC) {subsequently signed/date-stamped; sorry I left it out; concentrating on figuring out how to link to the old version of the article, which I'd never done before— DCGeist 23:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)}
The lads are very close in timing and space, but their embrace is symmetrical, suggesting it's not the usual kind of partner-dance that relies on lead-and-follow for timing. It's hard to make out the footwork: just a one-two-three-tap - is it an identifiable named dance ? -- 195.137.93.171 ( talk) 18:09, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
https://www.dancilla.com/wiki/index.php/Fingerlestanz
90.205.37.239 (
talk)
15:58, 31 May 2019 (UTC)