Legacy Library is a new initiative of the PSDF Archive focused on preserving and curating audio and video from the 1920’s through the 1950’s and beyond. In collaboration with Nick Williams, our first effort focuses on digitizing and preserving Nick’s extensive personal collection of video clips collected over decades.
Legacy Library is a new initiative of the PSDF Archive specifically focused on preserving and curating audio and video from the 1920’s through the 1950’s and beyond, and includes dances such as Lindy Hop, Balboa, Charleston, Swing, Collegiate Shag, and Vernacular Jazz. The video collection draws from films, soundies, home videos, dance events, and rare private lesson footage. In collaboration with Nick Williams, our first effort focuses on digitizing and preserving Nick’s extensive personal collection of video clips collected over decades.
The Legacy Library is dedicated to preserving the history of our beloved swing dances and honoring the legends of those individuals who shaped them. It is also intended to serve as an educational resource for the historical and ongoing cultural impact of both the swing dances and the dancers who brought them to life.
Best of all, the PSDF Legacy Library will be accessible to all!
We have ambitious goals and need the financial support of the community to realize them. Donated funds will be used to secure the expertise of archivists, historians, editors, and film transfer specialists to create and curate the Library. Wherever possible PSDF intends to contract with professionals from within the greater swing dance community in order to continue investing in our collective future.
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Thank you for supporting the Legacy Library!
Sponsor a Tape!
Supporters at or above the $500 level will have the option to choose a specific tape to sponsor from among Nick Williams’ collection and to join Legacy Clip Geeks — a group for nerds who like to geek out about clips.
- Sponsors at or above $500 will have the option to choose a tape to sponsor. Sponsoring a tape helps pay for that tape to be digitized, catalogued, and curated.
- Sponsors will be given their choice of tape on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Tape sponsors will receive sponsorship credit for the clips contained on “their” tape and in the Pacific Swing Dance Archive.
Thank you for putting together such an incredible project!
¡Gracias por este trabajo! Gracias por darme más minutos de disfrute y de aprendizaje.
I’m just a beginner dancer that is starstruck and absolutely inspired by the OG dancers! Thanks for your hard work in sharing this priceless footage for everyone to enjoy!
I appreciate the work you you’re doing!
Thank you so much for helping build an invaluable record of such incredible history.
Good to save footaga of the roots of the dance!
I love the idea that you are bridging the gap between “then” and “now” which helps us all appreciate the fact that we’re a part of a tradition that spans the decades!
Very worthy project!
Can’t wait to check these out in the future
Thank you for doing this work! I’m very excited to see what comes to light✨ 🎥 ✨
Thank you for saving this history and creating this wonderful resource for dancers and music lovers.
Support for Nick and Sylvia, and preservation of vital Balboa material.
So excited about the videos!
Thank you for the work to curate, preserve, and share this historic resource!
This is a great idea and I hope everything falls into place. Keep it up!