Dance: Misc. IV
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
label: See more items in
content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 491.246
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000034967]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 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

Video reference copy available.