Those Ragtime Years
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
label: Collection Collector
content: Smith, Ernie
label: Collection Performer
content: Webster, Ben
label: Collection Performer
content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
label: Collection Performer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Performer
content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
label: Collection Performer
content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
label: Collection Performer
content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
label: Collection Performer
content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
label: Collection Performer
content: Davis, Miles
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 491.86-2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000033282]
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content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 710f., b&w, a continuation of 491.86-1, A history, not of ragtime, but of the "ragtime era", from the 1890s to the death of Scott Joplin in 1917. The film uses period film footage and stills, recreations, narration, and music, a made for television production. This is a continuation of 491.86-1. NOTE: This may be the only surviving copy; see Terry Waldo: This is Ragtime, 1976, reprinted 1984, pg. 170.

Copyright: 1960

Corporate Creator: Project Twenty/NBC

Producer: Williams Nichols

Director: William A. Graham

Performer(s): narrated by Hoagy Carmichael, Mae Barnes, Billy B. Quartet, Eubie Blake, Minns and James, Wilbur deParis, Robin Roberts, Ralph Sutton, Clara Ward Singers, Dick Wellstood and Dorothy Loudon

Song Title(s):

1. "Under the Bamboo Tree"

2. "At a Georgia Camp Meeting", Bryant's Minstrels

Video reference copy


3. A Turkey Trot, footage with Vernon and Irene Castle

4. "Alexander's Ragtime Band"

5. "Let's Dance That Society Bear", unidentified female vocalist

6. "I Love a Piano", vocals by Carmichael

7. "Won't You Play a Simple Melody", vocals by Carmichael

8. "Won't You Play Me Some Rag", unidentified female vocalist

9. Unidentified ragtime piece, played by Blake

10. "Maple Leaf Rag", Carmichael, Blake and a Dixieland band