1960s Nightclub, Teenagers Dancing, Beatnik, Jazz

CU fingers on saxophone, CU toe tapping, drum stick on drum, teenage girl dancing. Nightclub, teenagers rock n roll dancing, beatnik. Could be jazz club. Great scene.

[jamesdettmann]

I was the guy at 0:26. This is the first time I'm seeing this footage, and my God it's making me well up. Fun times from long long ago.

[CrawfordRichard]

The movie is called BEAT GIRL, a british movie from 1960. that's Oliver Reed in the plaid shirt, his third movie role and as yet, uncredited.

[TWayneD]

Ah, the energy of youth !!! I miss it sooo bad !!!

[joshargan]

Great sound! Love the faces they make. The guys are badboys and their shirts are still tucked in. Awesome.

[robertjohnston]

Oliver Reed showing his class in an early role. And as for Gillian Hills (as the title character) - wow!

[d.j.howardindtla]

All these beautiful people are 80 years old, if they were lucky enough to have lived so long. Hopefully they did. Love this.

[harryblack]

Shirley Anne Field is the main girl jiving- (dark hair; white top).

She died recently. Also appeared in a slew of Britudh movies, incl Saturday Night and Sunday Morning- Peeping Tom, and found later hollywood success....

[ukulelemusic]

This tune is about 10x better than most songs that claim to be “beatnik”

[EJofLA]

Love it. Wish I could be there! Groovy attractive dancers!

[ciganyweaverandherperiwink]

So many people over the past few decades have gotten the beatnik look TOTALLY wrong when trying to pay homage to it, understand it or revive it in some way. It's staggeringly unimaginative and is always reduced to that same single image of a woman in black ankle-skimming stovepipe trousers, a black turtleneck, a beret, a cigarette, a scowl, a pair of ballet slippers, black sunglasses and a copy of 'Howl' being read over a cheap cup of black coffee. When trawling through old photographs, fantastic archive footage etc it's a terrific revelation to see just how varied the beatnik fashions were, formulaic but with so much variation on an unspoken aesthetic code. I wish people would stop being so lazy in their research when there's so much delightful archival footage to study. I can't get enough of it and love seeing how the girls REALLY put their outfits together. Time for a proper revival on the street style blogs. No more dull pastiches and lazy stereotypical 'photocopies of photocopies'. Thank you so much for this upload, terrific fun and hugely underappreciated documentation.

[scott]

Nice info about Oliver Reed (good close up). Also first film of singer/actor Adam Faith & first movie score of John (James Bond) Barry.

[stephenogden]

The John Barry Seven playing the title music to the film Beat Girl, 1960

[JMarieCAlove]

Cool music! My dad plays jazz music with his Saxophone too! And I recognize that face, Oliver Reed! He was really cute here! I've seen him in several movies, my favorite one with him is The Three Musketeers! I think his last movie he appeared in was Gladiator. He was a great actor!

[astra]

God i wish teenagers could still go out dancing like this. Now it’s reserved for adults

[Porschedriver]

Gillian Hills had talent. This was called Wild for Kicks in the US. Was she a redhead — all that hair wow. But how she looked at each element was very sultry. Great camerawork.

[BeverlyLedbetter-cb]

Wow... the picture quality is so much better than the DVD my brother had. You could hardly see anything on that disc!😬

[zzzwy]

the word hipster was invented in the 20's, bohemians, hipsters, hepcats, beatniks, hippies the names always change the fundamentals always remains the same

[handsomeman-pmvy]

They were called "Beatnicks" and 6 years before the "hippies."
If you want to see the epitome of a beatnick, then watch an episode of
"Doby Gillus" TV show from 1959 to 1961. Look for the character called
Maynard.

[bonsairobo]

Cool song. Sounds like an early blend of jazz and surf rock.

[clintonorman]

I played in a band that covered this song... man it's fun to play on guitar and whip the joint into a FRENZY!
Huh, didn't know that was Oliver Reed.