Dance: Bill Robinson
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
setName: label: See more items in
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 491.232
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000033506]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 875f., an Archives Center composite reel:

1. "Bill Robinson Stomp"

Descriptive Summary: Bill Robinson and chorus girls sing and dance to the "Bill Robinson Stomp".

2. Unidentified

Descriptive Summary: Bill Robinson and chorus (out of lecture reel) with Putney Dandridge dance but no Robinson vocals

3. "Turkey in the Straw"

Descriptive Summary: Robinson solo at Shirley Temple birthday, Stepin' Fetchit plays harmonica, Robinson dances, no vocals.

4. Final Harlem Hun

5. "My Old Kentucky Home"

Descriptive Summary: Robinson does the Step Dance to the above tune.

6. Unidentified

Descriptive Summary: same as #2 above

7. "Sidewalks of New York"

Descriptive Summary: Bobby Davis and Ray Bolger dance to "Sidewalks of New York", "Melody in F" and "Stars and Stripes Forever"

8. Unidentified

Descriptive Summary: same as #2 above

8. "Green's Black Orchids"

Descriptive Summary: Chorus line rehearsal of "Bill Robinson Stomp", followed by opening night at the Abe Lincoln Theatre of "Green's Black Orchids".

9. Unidentified

Descriptive Summary: Step Dance and Street Corner Dance, both with horrible audio.

Video reference copy available.