Descriptive Summary: 965f., an Archives Center compilation reel, but note not all of these are Soundies:

1. Gene Krupa and His Orchestra

Copyright: 1942

Performer(s): Gene Krupa and His Orchestra with Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge

Song Title(s): "Thanks for the Boogie Ride"

2. Gene Krupa, movie excerpt

Copyright: 1940

Corporate Creator:

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s) Gene Krupa and His Orchestra with Carolyn Gray

Song Title(s): "Gene's Boogie"

3. Gene Krupa and His Orchestra

Descriptive Summary: identical to #1 above

4. Gene Krupa and His Orchestra

Descriptive Summary: missing the opening chorus, introduced by an unknown disc jockey

Copyright: 1949

Song Title(s): "Disc Jockey Jump"

5. Gene Krupa and His Orchestra

Copyright: 1940

Song Title(s): "Anitra's Dance"

6. Rita Rio and Her Popular Mistresses of Rhythm

Descriptive Summary: an unidentified tune, Jacobi dances and does cartwheels

Copyright: 1942

Performer(s): Rio Rita, Anita Jacobi

7. "Sticks and Stones"

Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Talkavision/Soundies

Performer(s): Rita Rio

Song Title(s): "Sticks and Stones"

8. "I Look at You"

Copyright:

Corporate Creator: Globe Productions

Performer(s): Rita Rio and Alan Ladd

Song Title(s): "I Look at You", vocals by Rio and Ladd, dance by Rio

9. Three Brown Sisters

Song Title(s): "Underneath a Harlem Moon"

Descriptive Summary: 805f., an Archives Center composite reel of Hampton's work :

1. "Airmail Special"

Copyright: 1950-2

Corporate Creator: Studio Telescriptions #10607

2. "Midnight Sun"

Copyright: 1950

Corporate Creator: Snader Telescriptions, #0101

3. "Vibe Boogie"

Corporate Creator: Snader Telescription, #0609

4. "Beulah's Boogie

Corporate Creator: Snader Telescription, #0105

5. "Slide, Hamp, Slide"

6. "Cobb's Idea"

Descriptive Summary: female scat vocals

Corporate Creator: Snader Telescriptions, #0102

Descriptive Summary: 770f., all telescriptions on this reel are by Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra, and appear to have been recorded in the late 1940s and early 1950s, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. "Skyliner"

Descriptive Summary: Barnet on soprano and tenor sax

2. "Andy's Boogie"

Descriptive Summary: Barnet on soprano

3. "Cherokee"

Descriptive Summary: Barnet on tenor and alto sax

Copyright: 1950

4. "Caravan"

Copyright: 1950

Corporate Creator: Snader, #2904

Performer(s): Barnet on alto sax, vocals by Bill Derry

5. "Caravan"

Copyright: 1950

Corporate Creator: Snader, #2904

Performer(s): Barnet on alto sax, vocals by Bill Derry

6. "Cherokee"

Descriptive Summary: mislabelled "Skyliner" but is actually the same as #3 above

Copyright: 1950

Descriptive Summary: 960f., an Archives Center compilation reel, not everything on this reel is a Soundie

1. "One for All and All for One"

Performer(s): Tiny Grimes, guitar and vocals with four chorus girls

2. The Five New Orleans Wildcats, 1935

3. Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra

Copyright: 1938

Corporate Creator: Columbia Pictures (Thrills of Music, Series 2, Vol. 5)

Director: Harry Foster

Performer(s): Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra, Jean Louis, Jimmie Brown, Nikolai Dancers and Fred Robbins

Song Title(s): a. "Redskin Rhumba", played over the credits

b. "Prompton Turnpike"

4. Stan Kenton with June Christy

Copyright: 1945

Song Title(s): "Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin'", vocals by Christy

5. Ethel Waters

Song Title: "Am I Blue?"

Descriptive Summary: a movie excerpt, theatre setting, plantation set, male chorus

6. The International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Copyright: 1947

Corporate Creator: Soundies, an Alexander Production

Performer(s): The International Sweethearts of Rhythm featuring Anna Mae Winburn

Song Title(s): "Jump Children"

7. Larry Clinton and His Orchestra, "The Dipsy Doodle"

8. Larry Clinton and His Orchestra, "Chant of the Jungle"

9. Larry Clinton and His Orchestra, "Dipsy Doodle"

Descriptive Summary: same as #7 above

Descriptive Summary: 1015f., b&w, an Archives Center composite reel:

1. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five in "Buzz Me"

Copyright: 1944

Corporate Creator: Soundies, an Adams Production

Producer: William Forest Crouch

Director: William Forest Crouch

Performer(s): Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five

Song Title(s): "Buzz Me"

2. Jungle Jig

Copyright: 1941

Corporate Creator: Official Films

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Dorothy Dandridge, three drummers

Song Title(s): "Do the Jig in the Jungle", vocals and dance by Dandridge

3. Route 66 - King Cole

Copyright:

Corporate Creator: Studio Telescriptions

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): King Cole Trio

Song Title(s): "Get Your Kicks on Route 66"

4. Slim Gailard Trio, "Chili & Beans Etoufee"

5. Slim Gailard Trio, "Dunkin Bagels"

6. Fats Waller

Copyright: 1941

Corporate Creator: Official films

Performer(s) Fats Waller and His Rhythm

Song Title(s): "Your Feet's Too Big"

7. Fats Waller

Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Official Films, Minveo Productions Inc.

Producer: Fats Waller

Director: Warren Murray

Performer(s): Fats Waller and His Rhythm, unknown female vocalist

Song Title(s): "Ain't Misbehavin'"

8. Ida James in "His Rockin' Horse Ran Away"

Copyright:

Corporate Creator: Soundies

Producer: William Forest Crouch

Director: William Forest Crouch

Descriptive Summary: 1025f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel, note that not all these selections are Soundies

1. Unidentified

Descriptive Summary: a movie excerpt

Copyright: 1944

Corporate Creator:

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): The Andrews Sisters

Song Title(s): "Shoo, Shoo, Baby"

2. Edna Mae Harris and Slim Thomas, "Legs Ain't No Good"

Copyright:

Corporate Creator: Minoco Pictures, Inc.

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Edna Mae Harris, Slim Thomas

Song Title(s): "Legs Ain't No Good"

Descriptive Summary: reverse image, audio is out of synch with film

3. International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Descriptive Summary: see also 491.237

Copyright: 1947

Corporate Creator: Soundies, an Alexander Production

Performer(s): The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Anna Mae Winburn

Song Title(s): "That Man of Mine"

4. "Mama Yo Quero in Portuguese"

Copyright: 1941

Performer(s): unidentified male vocals and dancing

5. Shine

Performer(s): Bubbles singing and dancing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra

6. Musical Madcaps, "Shoot the Liquor to Me, John Boy"

7. Musical Madcaps, "The Rhythm of the Rhythm Band"

8. Fats Waller, "The Joint is Jumpin'"

9. Tommy Reynolds Orchestra and His Orchestra with Sunnie O'Dea in "Smiles"

Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Minoco Productions, Inc.

Performer(s): Tommy Reynolds and His Orchestra, Sunnie O'Dea

Song Title(s): "Smiles", vocals by Reynolds

Descriptive Summary: 965f., b&w, color, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. The Jazz Singer

Descriptive Summary:

Copyright: 1952

Corporate Creator: Warner Brothers

Producer: Louis F. Edelman

Director: Michael Curtiz

Performer(s): Danny Thomas, Anitra Stevens, Peggy Lee

2. Yankee Doodle Dandy

Descriptive Summary:

Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Warner Brothers

Producer: Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis

Director: Michael Curtiz

Performer(s): James Cagney, Joan Leslie, S.Z. Sakall, Frances Langford

3. Blind Alley

Descriptive Summary:

Copyright: 1939

Corporate Creator: Columbia Pictures

Producer: Fred Kohlmar

Director: Charles Vidor

Performer(s): Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak

4. In Cold Blood

Descriptive Summary: music by Quincy Jones

Copyright: 1967

Corporate Creator: Pax Enterprises, Columbia Pictures

Producer: Richard Brooks

Director: Richard Brooks

Performer(s): Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe

5. A Song is Born

Descriptive Summary: color

Copyright: 1948

Corporate Creator: Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

Director: Howard Hawks

Performer(s): Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong

6. Broadway Melody of 1940

Descriptive Summary: b&w

Copyright: 1940

Corporate Creator: MGM

Descriptive Summary: 498f., an Ernie Smith composite reel:

1. George "Shorty" Snowden and Dancers

Copyright: 1929

Performer(s): Chick Webb's Orchestra, George Snowden, dancers

Song Title(s): "Sweet Sue"

Descriptive Summary: dance contest, Snowden as emcee, three couples dance, see also 491.7-1

2. Paramount News: Harlem Hoofers Fry Their Corns

Descriptive Summary: dance contest in Harlem, no sound track

3. Cotton Club

Performer(s): Cora LaRedd and the Claude Hopkins Orchestra, Nina Mae McKinney, Milton Berle

Song Title(s): a. "Everybody's Truckin", LaRedd and Hopkins Orchestra

b. Male comedy dancer

c. "Good for Nothing Joe", vocals by McKinney

d. Milton Berle

e. Female dance routine

4. Cab Calloway's 'Jitterbug's Party'

Copyright: 1935

Corporate Creator: Paramount Pictures, UM&M TV Corp.

Producer: Adolph Zuckor

Director: Fred Waller

Performer(s): Cab Calloway

Song Title(s): 

a. "'Long About Midnight"

b. "Call of the Jitterbugs"

Descriptive Summary: 480f., b&w

Copyright: 1950

Corporate Creator: Universal International

Producer: Will Cowan

Director: Will Cowan

Performer(s): King Cole Trio, Benny Carter Orchestra, Bunny Briggs, Dolores Parker and Scat Man Crothers

Song Title(s):

a. Unidentified, Carter Orchestra, solos by Carter and Britt Woodman (tb)

b. "I Never Lost My Heart", Cole trio

c. "I Ain't Gonna Let No Whale Make a Sandwich Out of Me", Crothers

d. "What I Want, That Ain't It", vocals by Parker

e. "Route 66", Cole trio

f. Unidentified up-tempo instrumental, Cole trio and Carter Orchestra

Descriptive Summary: Briggs segment is missing

Descriptive Summary: 1030f., an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. King Cole Trio, "Sweet Lorraine"

2. King Cole Trio, "Route 66"

3. Mamie Smith with Lucky Millinder, "You're Mine"

4. Billy Eckstine, "I Want to Talk About You"

5. Cab Calloway, "Calloway Boogie"

6. Cab Calloway, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"

7. Cab Calloway, "St. James Infirmary"

Descriptive Summary: 1004f., an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Firehouse 5+2, "South"

2. Firehouse 5+2, "Everybody Loves My Baby"

3. Firehouse 5+2, "Hook & Ladder Blues"

4. Comic, novelty band (white)

5. King Cole Trio, "The Trouble With Me is You"

6. Jack Teagarden, "Georgia On My Mind"

7. Cab Calloway, "Minnie the Moocher"

8. Delta Rhythm Boys, "Take the A Train"

Descriptive Summary: 950f., an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Scuffle

Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Official Films

Performer: Bill Robinson

Song Title: "Scuffle"

2. Bill Robinson, "Is You or Is You Ain't My Baby"

Descriptive Summary: vocal patter duet between Robinson and Putney Dandridge

3. Count Basie and His Orchestra, "April in Paris"

Descriptive Summary: introduced by Shirley Bassey, bad print, good audio

4. Count Basie and His Orchestra, "Quicksand"

Descriptive Summary: Ethel Waters vocals, bad audio

5. Duke Ellington and Ivie Anderson, "I Got It Bad"

Descriptive Summary: poor audio and picture

6. Louis Armstrong and His Band 'Shine' with Nicodemus

Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Official Films, R.C.M. Productions

Producer: Sam Coslow

Director: Josef Berne

Performer(s): Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra

Song Title(s): "Shine", vocals by Armstrong

7. Louis Armstrong

Descriptive Summary: same as #6 above with no header

8. Louis Armstrong and His Band in "Sleepy Time Down South"

Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Official Films, R.C.M. Productions

Producer: Sam Coslow

Director: Josef Berne

Performer(s): Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra

Song Title(s): "Sleepy Time Down South", vocals by Armstong

9. Louis Armstrong, "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You"

Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Official Films

Descriptive Summary: 1005f., an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Stepin' Fetchit

Descriptive Summary: a comedy routine

2. Shag dancers

Descriptive Summary: six couples illustrate various steps with narration/description

3. Big Apple Contest

Descriptive Summary: five couples dancing

4. Perry Como and John Bubbles, see also #491.231-10

5. Bunny Briggs and Benny Carter Orchestra

6. Bill Robinson

Descriptive Summary: Robinson performs the 'step' dance to "Swanee River" and "My Old Kentucky Home", see also #491.232-5

7. Tip, Tap, Toe, piano tap

Descriptive Summary: a piano dance while the Jack Teagarden Orchestra plays "Stompin' at the Savoy"

8. Billy Eckstine and unidentified woman dancer

Descriptive Summary: unidentified musical number, Gene Ammons on ts, Art Blakey on drums

9. "Shout, Brother, Shout" with the Ink Spots

Descriptive Summary: probably a movie excerpt with the Ink Spots and four male dancers

10. "Turkey in the Straw"

Descriptive Summary: Shirley Temple's birthday party with Bill Robinson and Stepin' Fetchit, see also #491.232-3, Robinson dances while Stepin'f Fetchit plays the harmonica, no vocals

Descriptive Summary: 1010f., an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Billy Eckstine and unidentified woman dancer

Descriptive Summary: unidentified musical number, Gene Ammons on ts, Art Blakey on drums

2. Cootie Williams Orchestra

Descriptive Summary: unidentified up-tempo number played by the Williams Orchestra, Lindy Hoppers (two pairs), poor audio, same as #491.127-5

3. Chorus line from "Harlem"

4. Cora LaRedd

Descriptive Summary: vocals and dance to an unidentified tune

5. Juanita Pitz, tapper

Descriptive Summary: tap number, music by "Chris and His Gang"

6. 42^nd St.

Copyright: 1933

Corporate Creator: Warner Brothers

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Performer(s): Ruby Keeler, same as #491.3-1(2)

7. Big Apple Contest

Descriptive Summary: five couples dancing, same as #491.246(3)

8. "Tiger Rag"

Descriptive Summary: Lawrence Welk Show, dance pair, tap and xylophone number

9. Billy Eckstine and unidentified woman dancer

Descriptive Summary: unidentified musical number, Gene Ammons on ts, Art Blakey on drums, same as #491.246(8)

10. Small's Paradise

Descriptive Summary: society dance, excerpt from #491.13

11. Dottie Salter

Song Title(s): "Shoe Shine Boy", vocals by Salter

"Bugle Call Rag", dance by Salter

OF491.249

Descriptive Summary: reel 1, 235f., reel 2, 355f.

Copyright:

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Descriptive Summary: 330f., color

Copyright:

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Descriptive Summary: 465f., b&w, an Ernie Smith compilation reel:

1. Unidentified, four couples dancing

2. Hot Choclate

Copyright:

Performance Date:

Corporate Creator:

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

Song Title(s): "Cotton Tail"

3. Big Apple Contest

Performer(s): Baron Skinner and His Orchestra, five dancing couples

Descriptive Summary: see also #491.258-1

4. Hellzapoppin'

Descriptive Summary: routines appear similar to those in Hot Choclate, poor audio, excerpt

Copyright: 1941

Corporate Creator: Universal Pictures

Producer: Jules Levy

Director: H.C. Potter

Performer(s): Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Rex Stewart, plus p, b (arco), cl, tb, g, d

Song Title(s):

Descriptive Summary: 268', b&w, an Ernie Smith compilation reel:

1. Unidentified

Descriptive Summary: three male dancers, unidentified orchestra and composition

2. Buck and Bubbles

Performer(s): John Bubbles, Buck Washington

Song Title(s): "Shoot the Liquor to Me, John Boy"

3. Unidentified

Song Title(s): a. "It Don't Mean a Thing", male/female dance duo, female vocals, off stage orchestra

b. Unidentified, a child joins the couple above for a tap routine

Descriptive Summary: 210', an Ernie Smith compilation reel:

1. Bill Robinson

Song Title(s):

a. "Swanee River"

b. "Old Kentucky Home"

Descriptive Summary: Robinson dances to the above tunes, grainy print

2. "Stompin' at the Savoy"

Descriptive Summary: three dancers dance on top of a piano

Performer(s): Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra, three dancers

Descriptive Summary: 286f.

Copyright:

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Descriptive Summary: 360f., b&w, an excerpt

Copyright: 1938

Corporate Creator: Cosmopolitan Pictures, First National Pictures, Warner Brothers

Producer: Hal B. Wallis

Director: Ray Enright

Performer(s): Louis Armstrong

Song Title(s):

Descriptive Summary: 290', b&w, an excerpt

Copyright: 1944

Corporate Creator: Republic Pictures

Associate Producer: Albert J. Cohen

Director: Ray McCarey

Performer(s): Louis Armstrong

Song Title(s):

Descriptive Summary: An Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Male quartet from Basie film

Descriptive Summary:

Copyright:

Corporate Creator:

Producer:

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Performer(s): Count Basie

Song Title(s):

2. "Crazy Horse"

Descriptive Summary:

Copyright: 1943

Corporate Creator:

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Count Basie

Song Title(s):

3. "God Bless the Child"

Descriptive Summary:

Copyright:

Corporate Creator:

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Count Basie and Billie Holiday

Song Title(s):

4. "Jamboree"

Descriptive Summary:

Copyright:

Corporate Creator:

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Count Basie and Joe Williams

Song Title(s):

5. Count Basie block party

Descriptive Summary:

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Performer(s):

Song Title(s):

6. Helen Humes with Count Basie

Descriptive Summary:

Descriptive Summary: 785f., an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Jittering Jitter-bugs

Descriptive Summary: includes the Big Apple Contest of #491.251(3) and moves forward

Copyright:

Corporate Creator: Sack Amusement Enterprises/RKO Radio Pictures

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Hamtree Harrington, Arthur White's Lindy Hoppers, Lee Norman's Orchestra

2. Harry Parry and His Orchestra

Descriptive Summary: Parry and the Orchestra play an unidentified tune while jitterbugs dance

3. The Magic Box,

Descriptive Summary: a pseudodocumentary on the manufacture of the "Radio Grammophone", and imitation train composition is performed by Hylton's Orchestra with a male vocal quartet.

Copyright:

Corporate Creator: Pathetone

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Jack Hylton and His Orchestra, commentator Rex Palmer "Uncle Rex"

Song Title(s):

Descriptive Summary: 545f., an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Record Making With Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

Descriptive Summary: narrator describes the process of making 78rpm records, visuals accompany the narration, including snippets of the Ellington Orchestra playing

Copyright: 1937

Performance Date: January 1937

Corporate Creator: NTA National Telefilm Associates, Inc. (Pictorial Magazine #889)

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

Song Title(s):

a. "Daybreak Express"

b. "Oh Babe, Maybe Someday", vocals by Ivie Anderson, solos by Cootie Williams and Hodges

2. "Solitude"

Descriptive Summary: same as #491.226(1)

3. Benny Goodman Quartet

Performer(s): Goodman, cl, and his quartet

Song Title(s): two unidentified compositions

4. Ellington Plays the Duke

Descriptive Summary: missing from this reel

Descriptive Summary: possibly excerpts from feature films

Copyright: ca. 1960s

Corporate Creator:

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Frank Sinatra

Song Title(s):

a. "Too Marvelous for Words"

b. "I See Your Face Before Me"

Descriptive Summary:

Copyright: ca. 1950s

Performance Date:

Corporate Creator:

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Frank Sinatra, unidentified all girl orchestra

Song Title(s): "Night and Day"

Descriptive Summary: b&w

Copyright: ca. early 1930s

Corporate Creator: Comedy House

Producer: Robert M. Savini

Director:

Performer(s): Bing Crosby

Song Title(s):

a. "When I Take My Sugar to Tea", vocals by Crosby

b. "Just a Dream", vocals by Crosby

c. "There's a Little Blue Room", vocals by Crosby

Descriptive Summary: b&w, an excerpt from the motion picture of the same name

Copyright: 1940

Corporate Creator: 20^th Century Fox

Producer: Kenneth Macgowan

Director: Walter Lang

Performer(s): Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne

Song Title(s):

a. "America, I Love You", vocals by Faye

b. "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France", vocals by Oakie

Descriptive Summary: b&w, an excerpt from the motion picture of the same name

Copyright: 1936

Corporate Creator: RKO Radio Pictures

Producer: Pandro S. Berman

Director: George Stevens

Performer(s): Fred Astaire & chorus

Song Title(s): "Bojangles of Harlem"

Descriptive Summary:

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Descriptive Summary: an excerpt

Copyright: 1941

Corporate Creator: 20^th Century Fox

Producer: Milton Sperling

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

Performer(s):

Song Title(s):

Descriptive Summary: an excerpt from an early talkie with occasional glimpses of Florenz Ziegfeld sitting in the theatre watching.

Copyright: 1929

Corporate Creator: Florenz Ziegfeld, Universal Pictures, distributed by Reel Images

Producer: Carl Laemmle

Director: Harry A. Pollard

Performer(s): Tess Gardella, the Jubilee Singers

Song Title(s):

a. "Hey Feller", vocals by Gardella and the Jubilee Singers

b. "Hey, Where Do You Think You're Goin'?"

Descriptive Summary: a few dance numbers and appearances by Ina Rae Hutton and Milton Berle

Copyright:

Corporate Creator: an NTA release

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Claude Hopkins and His Orchestra, Cora LaRedd, Nina Mae McKinney, Ina Rae Hutton, Milton Berle

Song Title(s):

a. "Everybody's Truckin'", vocals by LaRedd

b. Comedy dance routine, unidentified male dancer

c. "Good For Nothing Joe", vocals by McKinney

Copyright: 1937

Corporate Creator: Adolph Zukor/UM&M TV Corp.

Producer:

Director: Herbert Moulton and Leslie Roush

Performer(s): David Holt, Louis Prima and His Orchestra, Sons of the Pioneers, Quinlan Juvenile Singers, announcer Ted Husing

Song Title(s):

a. "A Lonely Spot I Know", vocals by The Sons of the Pioneers

b. "Shoe Shine Boy", vocals by Holt

c. "Blue Danube", vocals by the Quinlan Juvenile Singers

d. "Chinatown, My Chintown", Prima and His Orchestra

Copyright: 1937

Corporate Creator: Pictoreel

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Gus Van, Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra, Toy and Wing, The Three Kays, Moya Engele

Song Title(s):

a. "I've Got What It Takes to Drive Your Blues Away"

b. Unidentified instrumental, devil female dancer

c. Unidentified instrumental, danced by "Oriental" dancers Toy and Wing

d. "Rockin' Chair", vocals by Van

e. "All God's Chillun' Got Rhythm", vocals by Van with Hawkins and Orchestra

Descriptive Summary: b&w, excerpts, see also 491.265

Copyright: 1941

Corporate Creator: 20^th Century Fox

Producer: Milton Sperling

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

Performer(s): Glenn Miller and His Orchestra

Song Title(s):

a. "It Happened in Sun Valley"

b. "In the Mood", John Payne on piano, Tex Beneke and Al Klink "battle" on tenor sax

c. "Moonlight Serenade", short version

d. "I Know Why", unidentified vocal group including John Payne and Tex Beneke ts solo

Descriptive Summary: b&w, "a Max Fleischer Screen Song with the Famous Bouncing Ball", a mixture of live and cartoon

Copyright: 1935

Corporate Creator: Fleischer Studios, Paramount Pictures, UM&M TV Corp.

Producer: Max Fleischer

Director: Dave Fleischer

Performer(s): Abe Lyman and His Orchestra

Song Title(s):

a. "California Here I Come"

b. "I Wished on the Moon", unidentified female vocalist

Descriptive Summary: b&w

Copyright: 1949

Corporate Creator: Castle Films/Universal Pictures

Producer: Ken Goldsmith

Director: Edward F. Cline

Performer(s): Woody Herman and His Orchestra, The Andrews Sisters, Gloria Jean, Jane Frazier

Song Title(s):

a. "I'll Pray For You", vocals by the Andrews Sisters

b. "Il Baccio", vocals by Jean and the Andrews Sisters

c. "Amen", vocals by the Andrews Sisters, Frazier, Woody Herman and the Orchestra

Descriptive Summary: [All Girl Melody Makers]

Copyright: 1946

Corporate Creator: Castle Films

Producer:

Director:

Performer(s): Dave Schooler and His Twenty-One Swinghearts

Song Title(s):

a. "Tchaikowskiana"

b. "Pavanne"

c. "In an 18^th Century Drawing Room"

Descriptive Summary: b&w, girls and giant bananas, an excerpt

Copyright: 1943

Corporate Creator: 20^th Century Fox

Producer: William Goetz and William LeBaron

Director: Busby Berkeley

Performer(s): Carmen Miranda

Song Title(s): "The Lady in the Tutti-Fruitti Hat", vocals by Miranda

Descriptive Summary: a nightclub scene

Song Title(s):

a. "You Can't Sew a Button on a Heart"

b. "When I'm Alone"

Descriptive Summary: a staged outdoor concert for Gis, probably an excerpt from a full-length motion-picture

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Performer(s): The Andrews Sisters

Song Title(s):

a. "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"

b. "I Want Some Seafood Mama"

c. "Roll Out the Barrel"

d. "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from Co. B"

e. "I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time"

f. "Pennsylvania Polka"

g. "Victory Polka"

Descriptive Summary:

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Performer(s): Eddie Cantor

Song Title(s):

a. "There's Gonna Be a Harlem . . . Swing is Here", vocal by Cantor

b. Unidentified song, female tap dancers

c. "Swing is Here", vocals by an unknown female vocal trio

Copyright:

Corporate Creator: Warner Brothers

Producer: Gordon Hollingshead

Director:

Performer(s): Eunice Wilson, The Five Racketeers, The Three Whippets, Adelaide Hall, The Nicholas Brothers, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra

Song Title(s):

a. "I Don't Know Why", vocals by Wilson

b. "Tiger Rag", vocals by The Five Racketeers

c. Unidentified instrumental, danced by The Three Whippets

d. "I Never Meant It", vocals by Hall

e. Unidentified instrumental, dances by The Nicholas Brothers

f. Unidentified song, vocals by Calloway

Descriptive Summary: a production number from a motion picture, see also 491.3-1

Copyright: 1937

Performance Date:

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Performer(s): Dorothy Salter and Maruico Rocco

Song Title(s): "Turn on the Red Hot Heat"

Descriptive Summary: an Ernie Smith compilation reel:

Performer(s): Ida Cox

Song Title(s):

a. "Kentucky Blues", vocals by Cox

b. Unidentified blues number, vocals by Cox

Copyright: 1945

Corporate Creator: Universal Pictures, Alfred N. Sack, Sack Amusement Enterprises

Producer: Will Cowan

Director: Will Cowan

Performer(s): Rubberneck Holmes, Edna Mae Harris, Stringbeans Chester, Slim Thompson, Carmen Howell

Song Title(s):

a. "I've Got a Heart Full of Rhythm", vocals by Harris

b. "Some of These Days", vocals by Chester

c. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", vocals by Howell

Descriptive Summary: b&w, a short

Copyright: 1937

Corporate Creator: Paramount Pictures, an NTA release

Producer: Adolph Zukor

Director: Fred Waller

Performer(s): Ina Rae Hutton and Her Orchestra, the Winstead Trio

Song Title(s):

a. "Swing, Hutton, Swing"

b. "Bugle Call Rag", vocals by the Winstead Trio

c. Medley of "Stardust" and "Organ Grinders Swing", vocals by Hutton

d. "The Suzy-Q", vocals and dance by Hutton

e. Unidentified instrumental

Descriptive Summary: live performance from a jazz festival

Performer(s): Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Jones on piano

Song Title(s): "Satin Doll", vocals by Fitzgerald

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Descriptive Summary: b&w, a short film about Stephen Foster, featuring the music of Stephen Foster

Copyright: 1933

Corporate Creator: Master Art Productions, Melody Maker Series

Director: Ben Schwartz

Performer(s): John Hundley as Stephen Foster, Nancy McCord, Frank Wilson, William Corbett, Grace Milles and the Stephen Foster Singers, announcer: Kelvin Keech

Song Title(s):

1. "Uncle Ned, He's Gone Where the Good Darkies Go"

2. "Come Where My Lover Is"

3. "My Old Kentucky Home"

4. "Oh Sushannah"

5. "Swanee"

Descriptive Summary: 710f.

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Descriptive Summary: 210f, b&w, A performance of the Dave Brubeck Quartet on a March of Dimes telecast, probably 1950s

Corporate Creator: March of Dimes

Performer(s): Dave Brubeck, Bob Bates, Paul Desmond and Bob Bates

Song Title(s): "Dubuque" and "Brother Can You Spare a Dime"

Descriptive Summary: 900f.

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Copyright: 1930

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Performer(s): Jimmy Mordecai, music by James P. Johnson

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Descriptive Summary: b&w, silent, a short

Copyright: 1921

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Director: Robert P. Kerr, James Parrott

Performer(s): Ethel Broadhurst, Ernest Morrison, George Rowe, Joseph White

Descriptive Summary: 1000f., an Ernie Smith compilation reel:

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Descriptive Summary: 210f., newsreel footage of Baker in a nightclub number with male chorus

Copyright: 1929

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Song Title(s): Unidentified

Descriptive Summary: b&w, Siren of the Tropics film trailer, silent, includes the famous milk bath scene, a French film

Copyright: 1927

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Associate Director: Luis Bunuel

Performer(s): Josephine Baker

Descriptive Summary: Newsreel footage, "James Reese Europe and band perform for the negro 369^th Infantry, 93^rd division on board the U.S.A. Transport 'Stockholm'".

Descriptive Summary: clarinet, alto sax, piano, banjo, drums perform for fifteen seconds and then repeat, silent

Descriptive Summary: 150f., b&w, silent

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Descriptive Summary: 250f., b&w, a short film

Copyright: ca. 1961

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Performer(s): The Eureka Brass Band

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Descriptive Summary: 380f., b&w, a short featuring the above, but missing the Billie Holiday segment listed in the credits.

Copyright: 1950

Corporate Creator: Universal International

Producer: Will Cowan

Director: Will Cowan

Performer(s): Frank 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Count Basie and His Sextet

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Descriptive Summary: 300f., b&w, clip from a tv documentary featuring the Eureka Brass Band and some commentary by Billy Taylor

Copyright: ca. 1965

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Performer(s): Billy Taylor, the Eureka Brass Band

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Descriptive Summary: 150f., an Archives Center compilation reel consisting of an instrumental number then a number featuring the Three Brown Jacks dance troupe

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Descriptive Summary: 350f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Too Many Girls, excerpt

Descriptive Summary: b&w, an excerpt from the motion picture of the same name

Copyright: 1940

Corporate Creator: RKO Radio Pictures

Producer: George Abbott, Harry E. Edington

Director: George Abbott

Performer(s): Hal LeRoy and chorus

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2. Douglas Brothers

3. Bunny Briggs ca.. 1954, with a Frank Sinatra introduction from the Rudy Vallee tv show

4. Boy tapper

5. Bill Robinson, last bit of the stair dance (see also 491.8)

6. Zulu African dance

7. Dance chorus with Aunt Jemima

8. Juanita Pitz

9. The cakewalk from Hallelujah

Descriptive Summary: 669f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Slim Thompson, "Hot Taps from Harlem"

2. Child tap dancing on a barge

3. Arthur Murray, How to Dance the Shag, (see also 491.7)

4. The Three Whippets, an acrobatic dance act

5. Boy dancing on a wagon, (see also 491.8-2)

6. Two dance chorus numbers from an unidentified motion picture

7. The Big Broadcast of 1936

Descriptive Summary: b&w, an excerpt from the motion picture of the same name

Copyright: 1936

Corporate Creator: Paramount Pictures

Producer: Benjamin Glazer

Director: Norman Taurog

Performer(s): The Nicholas Brothers

Song Title(s): "Alabama Bound"

8. Kid Millions

Descriptive Summary: an excerpt from the motion picture of the same name

Copyright: 1934

Corporate Creator: Howard Productions, Samuel Goldwyn Co.

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

Director: Roy del Ruth

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Descriptive Summary: 5-10f, b&w, silent

Copyright: 1897

Corporate Creator: Edison Manufacturing Co.

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Performer(s): James T. Kelley, Dorothy Kent

Descriptive Summary: 60f, b&w, two clips from the "All God's Chill'un Got Rhythm" production number

Copyright: 1937

Corporate Creator: MGM

Producer: Sam Wood

Director: Sam Wood

Performer(s): The Marx Brothers, Ivie Anderson

Song Title(s): "All God's Chill'un Got Rhythm"

Descriptive Summary: 400f, b&w, a short film entertainment feature produced for the US armed services

Performance Date: 1943

Corporate Creator: US Army

Producer: Army Information Branch, Army Pictorial Service, Air Forces Navy Department

Performer(s): Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Ralph Cooper and Timmie Rodgers

Song Title(s):

1. "Life is Full of Consequence", vocals by Anderson and Horne, from the MGM film Cabin in the Sky

2. "Bring Enough Clothes for Three Days", vocals by Rodgers

3. "The Man I Love", vocals by Horne

Descriptive Summary: 400f., b&w. A short film with three segments.

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1. "Ragtime"

Descriptive Summary: two clips from a tv documentary.

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Copyright: 1939

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Descriptive Summary: 335f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Danish Armstrong

2. Pennies from Heaven

Descriptive Summary: b&w, excerpt, Bing Crosby sings and then a dialogue sequence with Armstrong

Copyright: 1936

Corporate Creator: Columbia Pictures

Producer: Emanuel Cohen

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Performer(s): Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong

Song Title(s): "Let's Call a Heart a Heart", vocals by Crosby

Descriptive Summary: 300f., b&w, an Ernie Smith compilation reel:

1. Caridad Garcia singing "Pio, Pio", with Gerald Marks and His Orchestra

2. The Three Sons, "Beyond the Blue Horizon"

3. Wingy Manone, "When the Saints Go Marching In"

Descriptive Summary: 100f., b&w, "The Concerto to End All Concertos", on comp. reel with OF491.298

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1. "Basin Street Blues"

2. "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home"

Descriptive Summary: 235f., b&w, a short film, see also 491.278

Corporate Creator: Warner Brothers

Producer: Gordon Hollingshead

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Descriptive Summary: color. An animated, short, art film from Canada.

Copyright: 1947

Corporate Creator: distributed by the National Film Board of Canada

Producer: Norman McLaren

Director: Norman McLaren

Performer(s): (original music by: Eugene Desormeaux)

Song Title(s): "Listen to the Mocking Bird", instrumental

Descriptive Summary: 600f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Mills Bros., "St. Louis Blues"

2. Fats Waller, "The Joint is Jump'in"

3. Louie Jordan, "Is You or Is You Ain't My Baby?"

4. Gene Krupa

5. Delta Rhythm Boys, "Take the A Train", part of "Jazz and Jive" short, Basie missing

6. Fats Waller, "Your Feet's to Big", part of "Jazz and Jive" short, Basie missing

7. Fats Domino, "Saturday Morning"

Descriptive Summary: 375f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Boarding House Blues

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Copyright: 1948

Corporate Creator: All-American

Producer: E.M. Glucksman

Director: Josh Binney

Performer(s): Una Mae Carlisle

Song Title(s): "Throw It Out of Your Mind"

2. Hazel Scott

3. Hazel Scott,

Song Title(s): "When the Black Keys Meet the White"

4. Dolly Amena

5. Ada Leonard and her all girl orchestra

Song Title(s): "Indiana"

Descriptive Summary: 1100f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Hilda Rogers

Song Title(s): "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"

2. "Cielito Lindo"

Corporate Creator: Official Films

Performer(s): The Mills Brothers

3. Nina Mae McKinney

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a. "Shuffle Along"

b. "Everything I've Got Belongs to You"

4. Pope Sisters

5. Ada Brown

Song Title(s): "Than Ain't Right"

6. Ethel Merman

Song Title(s): "Old Man Blues"

7. Sarah Vaughan

Song Title(s): "You're Mine You"

Descriptive Summary: 525f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Laverne Baker

Song Title(s): "Love Me Right in the Morning"

2. Billie Holiday

Song Title(s): "Baby I'll Never"

3. Pearl Bailey

Song Title(s): "Beat Out That Rhythm on a Drum" with Max Roach

4. Dinah Washington

Song Title(s): "Only a Moment Ago"

5. Lena Horne

Song Title(s): "Boogie Woogie Dream", partial

6. Sarah Vaughan

Song Title(s): "The Boy from Ipanema"

Descriptive Summary: 250f., b&w, an excerpt, consists of the movie's credits and two instrumental numbers

Copyright: 1947

Corporate Creator: Herald Pictures

Producer: Jack Goldberg, Arthur Leonard

Director: Arthur H. Leonard

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Descriptive Summary: 950f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel consisting of excerpts from the motion picture

Copyright: 1943

Corporate Creator: 20^th Century Fox

Producer: William LeBaron

Director: Andrew L. Stone

Performer(s): Fats Waller, Joe Brown, Lena Horne, Katherine Dunham Dancers, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway

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1. Fats Waller & Joe Brown, (X-17), "Ain't Misbehaving"

2. Lena Horne & Katherine Dunham, (XI-2), "Stormy Weather" production number

3. Bill Robinson & Lena Horne, (39-1), dialogue, house plans, kids on porch, Cab Calloway "Geechy Joe", Robinson & Horne, "There's No Two Ways About It", Bill Robinson, "Ain't That Something"

Descriptive Summary: 800f., b&w, a compilation reel consisting of excerpts from the following feature films:

1. Way Down South

Descriptive Summary: cane field production number

Copyright: 1939

Corporate Creator: RKO Radio Pictures

Producer: Sol Lesser

Director: Bernard Vorhaus

Performer(s): Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Matthew Beard, Sally Blane

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Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Paramount Pictures

Producer: Joseph Sistrom

Director: George Marshall

Performer(s): Eddie "Rochester Anderson"

Song Title(s): "With a Belt in the Back" production number

3. Kid Millions

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Copyright: 1934

Corporate Creator: Howard Productions, Samuel Goldwyn Co.

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

Director: Roy del Ruth

Performer(s): Eddie Cantor and Ann Southern

Song Title(s): "Your Head On My Shoulder" production number, minstrel sequence

4. Gold Diggers of 1933

Descriptive Summary: an excerpt, opening credits and one production number

Copyright: 1933

Corporate Creator: Warner Brothers

Producer: Jack L. Warner

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Performer(s): Ginger Rogers and chorus

Song Title(s): "We're In the Money" production number

5. Ten Cents a Dance

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Copyright: 1946

Corporate Creator: Columbia Pictures

Producer: Michael Kraike

Director: Will Jason

Descriptive Summary: 350f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. The Blue Angel, excerpt

Descriptive Summary: a German film

Copyright: 1930

Corporate Creator: Universum Film A.G.

Producer: Erich Pommer

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Performer(s): Marlene Dietrich

Song Title(s): "Falling In Love Again".

2. Blonde Venus, excerpt

Descriptive Summary: Dietrich performs initially as a gorilla in the production number

Copyright: 1932

Corporate Creator: Paramount Pictures

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Performer(s): Marlene Dietrich

Song Title(s): "Hot Voodoo" production number

Descriptive Summary: 400f., b&w, a short documentary

Copyright: ca. 1960s

Corporate Creator: Harold Becker Productions

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Descriptive Summary: 850f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Bunny Berigan, "Until Today"

2. Eddie Peabody, classic banjo

3. Eubie Blake with Nina Mae McKinney

4. Stan Kenton (?)

5. John Coltrane, 1957

6. Dizzy Gillespie, "Things to Come"

7. Benny Goodman with Gene Krupa, introduction by Rudy Vallee

8. Cannonball Adderly

Descriptive Summary: 975f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Buddy Rich

2. Red Nichols and the 5 Pennies, "The Entrance of the Gladiators"

3. Pete Daily and his harmonica band

4. The Three Sons - Swinging the Classics, the "William Tell Overture", "Anvil Chorus", and "Song of India"

5. Woody Herman, two instrumental production numbers, one is "Divine Lady", probably from The Hard Way, 1942

445f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Second Chorus, excerpt

Copyright: 1940

Corporate Creator: Astor Pictures Corporation, Paramount Pictures

Producer: Boris Morros

Director: H.C. Potter

Performer(s): Artie Shaw, Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard

Song Title(s): "Concerto for Clarinet" production number

2. Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra

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Copyright: 1938

Corporate Creator: The Vitaphone Corporation

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Performer(s): Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra

Song Title(s): "Long John Silver"

3. "Stage Show", 1954-55, with Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey

4. Count Basie, 1949?, a number from The Band Parade?

5. Benny Goodman, part of a "March of Time" feature, BG at the Hotel New Yorker

Descriptive Summary: 700f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Ben Pollack with Doris Robbins, singing "The Beat of My Heart"

2. Freddie Rich and His Orchestra with Bunny Berigan, in "Mirrors"

3. Sing, Baby, Sing, excerpt

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Copyright: 1936

Corporate Creator: 20^th Century Fox

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Performer(s): Ed Farley and Mike Riley

Song Title(s): "The Music Goes Round"

4. Cab Calloway, sings "In the Mood"

5. Woody Herman, "Dr. Jazz"

6. Rudy Vallee, and his band sing "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?"

7. Edmund Hall on piano with ? , singing "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"

8. "Oh Susannah", unidentified male vocalist

Descriptive Summary: 275f., b&w, an excerpt, on reel with OF491.342 & .343

Copyright: 1960

Corporate Creator: Allied Artists

Producer: Lindsley Parsons

Director: Joseph Pewney

Performer(s): Josh White, Jeff Chandler, Dolores Hart

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Descriptive Summary: 250f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. After Seben, excerpt

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Copyright: 1933

Corporate Creator: The Vitaphone Corporation

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Descriptive Summary: 363f., b&w, a short

Copyright: 1932

Corporate Creator: Paramount Pictures

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Performer(s): Louis Armstong

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Descriptive Summary: 432f., b&w, a short

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Descriptive Summary: 250f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Pigmeat Markam, "It's Some Bull" routine

2. Stump and Stumpy, probably the "We've Got Rhythm to Spare" production number from Boarding House Blues, 1948

3. Step'in Fetchit, comedy introduction to "Moo Cow Boogie"

Descriptive Summary: 200f., b&w, silent, a US Govt. anti-VD film for servicemen, some great dance sequences.

Copyright: ca. 1941-1945

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1. "Is You or Is You Ain't"

2. "Finale"

Descriptive Summary: 420f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Remnants of Wilson-Feather Award, 1951, Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie accepting Downbeat Magazine Award of 1951 - musical number has been cut

2. Two African-Amer. males talking backstage, scene from an uniden. motion picture

3. Harlem Tour, probably part of a newsreel tour of Harlem, ca. 1930s

4. Don't Knock the Rock, excerpt

Descriptive Summary: two scenes from the motion picture of the same name

Copyright: 1956

Corporate Creator: Clover Productions, distributed by Columbia Pictures

Producer: Sam Katzman

Director: Fred F. Sears

Performer(s): Patricia Hardy, Fay Baker, Alan Dale and Jana Lund

5. Disc Jockey, talks about Steve and Nick Condos and Martha Raye

6. Phil Silvers intro. for the Berry Bros., probably from Footlight Parade, 1942

7. "Turner's Arcade", a dialogue scene between an African-Amer. man and woman

8. The King of Burlesque, excerpt

Descriptive Summary: two dialogue scenes from the motion picture of the same name

Copyright: 1935

Corporate Creator: 20^th Century Fox

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Performer(s): Fats Waller, Warner Baxter

9. Ozon commercial

Descriptive Summary: commercial for Ozon hair dye using Foster's, "I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair"

Descriptive Summary: 100f., b&w, ca. 1945, a Paramount News Feature (35mm)

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Corporate Creator: 20^th Century Fox

Producer: 20^th Century Fox

Director: Allan Dwan

Performer(s): Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple

Song Title(s): "The Toy Trumpet"

Descriptive Summary: 3 reels

Copyright: 1933

Corporate Creator: Warner Brothers

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Performer(s): Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Bebe Daniels, Clarence Nordstrom, Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel

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1. "42^nd Street", vocals by Powell and Keeler

2. "It Must be June", vocals by Daniels and Powell

3. "Love Theme", instrumental

4. "Pretty Lady", instrumental

5. "Shuffle Off to Buffalo", vocals by Keeler, Nordstrom, Rogers and Merkel

6. "Young and Healthy", vocals by Powell

7. "You're Getting to be a Habit with Me", vocals by Daniels

Descriptive Summary: 2 reels

Copyright: 1925

Corporate Creator: Charles Chaplin Productions, dist. by United Artists

Producer: Charles Chaplin

Director: Charles Chaplin

Performer(s): Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Georgia Hale

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Copyright: 1935

Corporate Creator: 20^th Century Fox

Producer: Buddy G. DeSylva

Director: David Butler

Performer(s): Shirley Temple, Bill Robinson, John Boles, Karen Morley

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Copyright: 1959

Corporate Creator: Columbia Pictures

Producer: Phillip A. Waxman

Director: Don Weis

Performer(s): Sal Mineo, Red Nichols, James Darren, Yvonne Craig

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Copyright: 1937

Corporate Creator: MGM

Producer: Sam Wood

Director: Sam Wood

Performer(s): The Marx Brothers, Ivie Anderson, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont

Song Title(s):

1. "All God's Chill'un Got Rhythm", vocals by Anderson

2. "Tomorrow is Another Day", vocals by Jones