Draft version. Published version available from Black Ink, Issue 4, 20 September 2023. Article: In 2020, Buddy Bradley’s name appeared several times during my research on tap dance history in the UK and I was intrigued about how this American became the first Black choreographer of British musical film in the 1930s. How is it that hardly any dancers (including myself) had heard of him? The more I learned about Buddy, the more widespread I found his influence to be and by summer 2021, I was writing a research project proposal in order to recover the missing story of his contribution to British dance practice