How about Sword Dancers NOT in a video?
I recall being told a tale by some members of Kirkburton Rapier about a time when they were guests of Goathland Plough Stots (along with another team, possibly Horwich Prize Medal (Northwest Morris)), I can't recall for certain.
Goathland is used for filming of the period police light drama Heartbeat. The Plough Stots and guests were due to dance a short spot just after lunchtime, but the film crew was busy setting up a scene. The director sent one of his lackeys to ask the dancers if they would postpone their spot until the filming was done.
Goathland were adamant that, as it is THEIR village, and they always dance there on that particular tour, they were not going to alter their schedule for some film crew. They also reckoned that if the director wanted to request something it was only polite that he should do so directly, not via subordinates.
The outcome was that eventually the director offered to keep buying the dance teams beer to stay in the pub until the scene was filmed.
Apparently it took most of the afternoon, what with RAF jets and modern cars coming into the shot of 1960's Yorkshire. The dance teams were forced to stay drinking all afternoon, and the bill paid by the film crew.
It would have been much cheaper if the director had let them do their 20 minute display and slipped a tenner in the collection before they moved to the next dance spot!
Quack!
GtD.