Norma Miller Lindy/Tip Tap Toe/Steps Dance compilation reel
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 491.251-253
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images [31983000034991]
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content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 1. Norma Miller Lindy compilation reel (compiled by Ernie Smith); black and white, 465 feet

Unidentified, four couples dancing; "Hot Chocolate", Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers; "Cotton Tail"; Big Apple Contest, Baron Skinner and His Orchestra, five dancing couples (see also OF 491.258-1; Hellzapoppin' (Routines appear similar to those in "Hot Chocolate", poor audio, excerpt)

2. Tip, Tap, Toe (compiled by Ernie Smith); black and white, 268 feet

Unidentified, three male dancers, unidentified orchestra and composition; "Shoot the Liquor to Me", Buck and Bubbles; Unidentified; "It Don't Mean a Thing", male/female dance duo, female vocals, off stage orchestra; Unidentified, a child joins the couple for a tap routine

Copyright: 1941

Corporate Creator: Universal Pictures

Producer: Jules Levy

Director: H.C. Potter

Performer(s): Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Rex Stewart


3. Steps Dance and Tip, Tap, Toe (compiled by Ernie Smith); 210 feet

"Swanee River", "Old Kentucky Home", Bill Robinson, "Stompin' at the Savoy", Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra (three dancers dance on top of a piano)

Video reference copies available.