Bill Robinson: Misc.
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 491.225
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000034801]
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content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 980f., an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. It's Swing Ho - Come to the Fair (Jazz at the World's Fair")

Descriptive Summary: Crowd scenes relating to the 1939 New York World's Fair, with brief shots of musical celebrities; Glen Gray, Eddie Duchin, Hal Kemp, and Bojangles

Copyright: 1939

Corporate Creator: Paramount Pictures

Producer: Paramount News

Director:

Performer(s): narrated by Bill Slater, Glen Gray, Eddie Duchin, Hal Kemp, and Bojangles

2. Unidentified (Symphony Orchestra

Descriptive Summary: Robinson dances along with the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra, there are two identical clips.

Performer(s): Bill Robinson

3. Hooray for Love, excerpt

Copyright: 1935

Corporate Creator: RKO Radio Pictures

Producer: Felix Young

Director: Walter Lang

Performer(s): Bill Robinson and Jeni LeGon, Fats Waller

Song Title(s): a. "I'm Livin' in a Great Big Way", Robinson, LeGon and Waller b. Unidentified, Robinson and Waller

4. Rural Kids & Robinson

Descriptive Summary: Two children dancing on a cart.

5. "My Old Kentucky Home"

Descriptive Summary: "Bojangles" dances his staircase dance Performer(s): Bill Robinson

Song Title(s): "My Old Kentucky Home"

5. Hooray for Love, excerpt

Descriptive Summary: same as #3 above

Copyright: 1935

Corporate Creator: RKO Radio Pictures

Producer: Felix Young

Director: Walter Lang

Performer(s): Bill Robinson and Jeni LeGon, Fats Waller

Song Title(s): a. "I'm Livin' in a Great Big Way", Robinson, LeGon and Waller b. Unidentified, Robinson and Waller

Video reference copy available.