Cartoon: 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
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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 491.186
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000033357]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: An Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Little Black Sambo

Descriptive Summary: Sambo and his pet dog outwit a tiger.

Copyright: 1935

Producer: Celebrity Productions, Inc. Animator: U. B. Iwerks

2. Krazy Kat - Birth of Jazz

Descriptive Summary: A small creature of some sort dances and plays various musical instruments, which also play themselves. "St. Louis Blues" is performed as it would be played in various ethnic settings which are concurrently parodied including: Spanish bull fight, Russian Cossacks, Dutch, French, African, Statue of Liberty

Copyright: 1932

Corporate Creator: Samba Pictures, Screen Gems distributed by Columbia Pictures

Producer: Charles Lantz

Song Title(s): "St. Louis Blues"

3. When It's Sleepy Time Down South,

Descriptive Summary: Cartoon firemen answer a fire call at a the cartoon home of the Boswell Sisters. Then, in person, they sing "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" with the bouncing ball and then back to the cartoon and its conclusion.

Copyright: 1932

Corporate Creator: Fleischer Studios

Producer: Maz Fleischer

Director: Dave Fleischer

Performer(s): The Boswell Sisters

Song Title(s): "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"

Video reference copy available.