The Embers, with Danton Walker, Broadway Columnist, N.Y. Daily News/Hollywood Harlem compilation reel
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
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content: Smith, Ernie
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content: Webster, Ben
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content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
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content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
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content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
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content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
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content: 1 Motion picture film
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content: Reel OF 491.68-69
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: 1. The Embers, with Danton Walker, Broadway Columnist, N.Y. Daily News, black and white, 370 feet 

Producer: Harry Foster

Director: Harry Foster

Performer(s): Joe Buskin Sextet, with Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Dorothy Louden

Song Title(s): "Rat Race"; "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", vocals by Louden; "Oh, Loot at Me Now", vocals by Buskin

2. Hollywood and Harlem (n Ernie Smith compilation reel); black and white, 975 feet; features clips from Hollywood movies depicting Harlem nightlife.

Performer(s): Ethel Waters, Jimmy Lunceford and His Orchestra, Willie Smith, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Orchestra, The Three Tenors, others unidentified

Song Title(s): "Jail House Blues", 1942, unidentified female vocalist; "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home", unidentified female vocalist; Unidentified vocals by Waters; "Am I Blue?", vocals by Waters, probably from Rufus Jones for President, 1933; "Underneath a Harlem Moon", vocals by Waters, from Rufus Jones for President, 1933; "Rhythm is Our Business", vocals by Smith, Jimmy Lunceford and His Orchestra; "God Bless the Child", vocals by Holiday, Count Basie and His Orchestra; "Fine and Mellow", vocals by Holiday and The Three Tenors

3. Hollywood Harlem (An Ernie Smith compilation reel); black anf white, 350 feet; features clips from Hollywood movies depicting Harlem nightlife.

Performer(s): Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra including: Carney, Procope, Hamilton, Willie Smith, Louis Bellson, Ray Nance, Quentin Jackson, Paul Gonsalves, Wendell Marshall from the early 1950s, Lindy Hoppers

Song Title(s): "I Can't Give You Anything But Love", vocals by Armstrong; "The Mooche", Duke Ellington and His Orchestra; Newsreel footage featuring the Lindy Hoppers at the Savoy Ballroom

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