Show Boat/Cotton Club Rehearsal/The Star Reporter in Hollywood/Deviled Ham compilation reel
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content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
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content: Smith, Ernie
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
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content: 1 Motion picture film
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content: Reel OF 491.266-269
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Moving Images [31983000035063]
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content: Motion picture films
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content: 1. Show Boat

An excerpt from an early talkie with occasional glimpses of Florenz Ziegfeld sitting in the theatre watching.

Copyright: 1929

Corporate Creator: Florenz Ziegfeld, Universal Pictures, distributed by Reel Images

Producer: Carl Laemmle

Director: Harry A. Pollard

Performer(s): Tess Gardella, the Jubilee Singers

Song Title(s): "Hey Feller", vocals by Gardella and the Jubilee Singers; "Hey, Where Do You Think You're Goin'?"

2.Cotton Club Rehearsal

A few dance numbers and appearances by Ina Rae Hutton and Milton Berle

Corporate Creator: an NTA release

Performer(s): Claude Hopkins and His Orchestra, Cora LaRedd, Nina Mae McKinney, Ina Rae Hutton, Milton Berle

Song Title(s): "Everybody's Truckin'", vocals by LaRedd; comedy dance routine with unidentified male dancer; "Good For Nothing Joe", vocals by McKinney

3. The Star Reporter in Hollywood

Copyright: 1937

Corporate Creator: Adolph Zukor/UM&M TV Corp.

Director: Herbert Moulton and Leslie Roush

Performer(s): David Holt, Louis Prima and His Orchestra, Sons of the Pioneers, Quinlan Juvenile Singers, announcer Ted Husing

Song Title(s): "A Lonely Spot I Know", vocals by The Sons of the Pioneers; "Shoe Shine Boy", vocals by Holt; "Blue Danube", vocals by the Quinlan Juvenile Singers; "Chinatown, My Chintown", Prima and His Orchestra

4. Deviled Ham

Copyright: 1937

Corporate Creator: Pictoreel

Performer(s): Gus Van, Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra, Toy and Wing, The Three Kays, Moya Engele

Song Title(s): "I've Got What It Takes to Drive Your Blues Away"; Unidentified instrumental, devil female dancer; Unidentified instrumental, danced by Toy and Wing; "Rockin' Chair", vocals by Van; "All God's Chillun' Got Rhythm", vocals by Van with Hawkins and Orchestra

Video reference copies available.