Dance: Misc. II
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 491.230
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000034850]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 985f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Cakewalk

Descriptive Summary: silent, see also 491.1-2

Copyright: 1903

Corporate Creator: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.

2. Comedy Cakewalk

Descriptive Summary: silent, see also 491.1-4

Copyright: 1903

Corporate Creator: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.

3. Uncle Tom's Cabin

Descriptive Summary: cakewalk, silent, see also 491.1-3

Copyright: 1903

4. At a Georgia Camp Meeting, see also 491.1-5

Copyright: 1929

5. An unidentified group of female dancers, silent

6. The Whirl of Life

Descriptive Summary: silent, see also 491.1-6

Copyright: 1914

Performer(s): Vernon and Irene Castle

7. Comedy Cake Walk, see #2 above

8. Cake Walk, see #1 above

9. Franchonetti Sisters

Copyright: 1903

Corporate Creator: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.

10. Ralph Brown, tapper

Corporate Creator: Universal

11. Acrobatic Dance by Chris Gill

12. Dancing at the Apollo

13. "Hollywood Variety Parade"

Descriptive Summary: various Lindy Hoppers, big band sound track

Copyright: 1942

14. Paramount News - Jitterbugs Jive at Swingeroo - (Get It)

Descriptive Summary: see also 491.352

Performer(s): narrated by George Abbott Description: 25 bands, six hour marathon

15. Hallelujah

16. Minns & James

Descriptive Summary: demonstration of various 1920s dance steps, excerpt from 491.5

10. Uncle Tom's Cabin

Descriptive Summary: cakewalk, same as #3 above

Copyright: 1903


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