Bill Robinson/Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire/Eleanor Powell Specialty/Sensations of 1945/The Living Lindy Hoppers/How to Dance the Shag 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
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content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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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
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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
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content: Reel OF 491.149-152
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 [31983000034413]
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content: Motion picture films
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content: 1. Bill Robinson/Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire/Eleanor Powell Specialty (an Ernie Smith compilation reel; black and white, 590 feet

"Organ Grinders Swing", Temple and Robinson dance together; excerpt; broadway Melody of 1940

Copyright: 1940

Corporate Creator: MGM

Producer: Jack Cummings

Director: Norman Taurog

Performer(s): Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell

Song Title(s): "Jukebox Dance" Powell and Astaire dance; "Begin the Beguine", Powell and Astaire dance (see also 491.3-2-5)


2. Sensations of 1945; black and white, 225 feet

A production number from the film, unidentified instrumental

Copyright: 1944

Corporate Creator: United Artists

Producer: Andrew L. Stone

Director: Andrew L. Stone

Performer(s): Eleanor Powell, 12 female acrobatic dances and one dancing horse


3. The Living Lindy Hoppers; black and white, 110 feet

Three couples dance to an unidentified instrumental number.

Director: Lesley Manning

Performer(s): The Lindy Hoppers


4. How to Dance the Shag; black and white, 117 feet 

Murray instructs couples on how to dance The Shag.

Copyright: Performance Date:

Corporate Creator: 20th Century Fox

Producer: Al Christie

Performer(s): Arthur Murray and His Shag Dancers

Video reference copies available.