Keep Punching

Not to be confused with the 2013 Killer Goose Films documentary of the same name

Keep Punching is a 1939 film with an all African American cast. Performers in the film include Dooley Wilson and George Wiltshire. The film also features boxing champion Henry Armstrong.[1]

It was directed by John Clein.[2] The film includes Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (Lindy Hop) performing the much imitated Big Apple Routine.[3] A film clip of the dance scene was also released as the short “Jittering Jitterbugs” in 1943 showing the Big Apple routine choreographed by Frankie Manning and the a Jitterbug dance competition thatfollowed in the film.[4]

References
  1. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
  2. "Keep Punching". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  3. "Big Apple Keep Punching Version – Lindy Hop Moves".
  4. Reporter, Lindy Hop (July 3, 2019). "The Big Apple /Keep Punching (1939)".
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