Jazz Performance Compilation
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Schiedt, Duncan P., 1921-2014
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content: Duncan P. Schiedt Photograph Collection
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content: Duncan P. Schiedt Photograph Collection / Series 5: Audiovisual Materials / Series 1: Motion Picture Films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black and white, composite optical soundtrack, compilation reel, 16mm, 1250 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1944-1947
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 1323.2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000006916]
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Compilation reel of jazz performances. The first four segments begin with title cards that read "U.M. + M. TV Corporation presents." The last segment has no titles but appears to be an excerpt from the 1945 film Tonight and Every Night.

A list of the contents was attached to the original film canister and has been transcribed as follows:

Duke Ellington Orchestra - Symphony in Black

Duke Ellington Orchestra - Bundle of Blues (Rockin' in Rhythm - Stormy Weather - Bugle Call Rag)


Hoagy Carmichael with Jack Teagarden Orchestra and vocalist Meredith Blake (Two Sleepy People - That's Right, I'm Wrong - Washboard Blues - Lazybones - Small Fry - Rockin' Chair - Stardust)

Prof. Lamberti (incl. Rita Hayworth) vaude act