102-year-old Alice Barker danced in chorus lines in New York during the '30s and '40s but had never seen herself dance sue to the fact that moving film was mostly reserved for movie screens and the idea of having video footage seemed like futuristic nonsense.
Flash forward to 2015 and the unlikely pairing of therapy dog owner David Shuff and Jazz-On-Film archivists Mark Cantor, who together found a way to let Alice see herself 80 years on.
According to Mashable, Shuff owns a therapy dog that visits the nursing home where Barker lives who heard all her stories of being a famous dancer back in the day. Having no luck hunting down footage of her himself, Shuff got in touch with Cantor who - after figuring out that a lot of Alice's footage mis-credited her with the surname Baker - found he already had footage of the 102-year-old.
Below you'll see how she reacted to seeing herself for the first time. Heartwarming is an understatement.
