<I>Cab Calloway Home Movie #4</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1950
name: label: Created by
content: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
label: Created by
content: Nuffie Calloway, American, 1915 - 2008
label: Owned by
content: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
label: Subject of
content: Nuffie Calloway, American, 1915 - 2008
label: Subject of
content: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
notes: label: Description
content: A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab Calloway during a tour of South America, with both Kodachrome and black-and-white film edge codes indicating years of 1950 and 1955.
label: Description
content: The initial (somewhat under-exposed) color footage is inside the Teatro Solis in Montevideo, Uruguay, and features musicians and dancers on stage. The following exterior daytime scene depicts a group of men with cameras in front of a motor coach bus. Scenes of the same motor coach in front of a large estate and garden feature Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway and a group of men. Subsequent scenes depict city streetscapes with men wearing gaucho pants, two of which emerge from an antique Model A Ford car. This is followed by a brief shot of a sunset filmed from a moving car. The camera roll ends with slightly overexposed footage of a ivy-walled palatial building, and race horses with jockeys; laboratory punch holes are visible at the end of the roll. The next camera roll opens with under-exposed interior footage of couples dancing in a ballroom; Cab Calloway is visible performing on stage and wearing a plaid blazer. The next scenes are exteriors, near a body of water, with Cab Calloway wearing shorts and a white tunic with black polka dots and hugging another man. Pleasure craft, docked in a harbor, are visible. Subsequent panorama shots feature Mrs. Calloway outdoors in a kimono-like bathrobe, and pans of seaside houses and gardens and of the ocean.
label: Description
content: The next roll in this compilation reel is in black and white, and features a tilt pan of an apartment building, women, and children who walk down its stairs. One of the women is Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway and palm trees are present in the gardens in front of the apartment. Subsequent shots from the same location include young girls, and groups of men posing for the camera. There is also a panorama shot of a garden with palm trees. A building is visible with the sign: "Pan American World Airways Compania [illegible] Aviacion." A young girl with a doll has her photograph taken in front of a fountain. In the following scene, Cab Calloway is seen in a white tuxedo, escorting a bride in what appears to be a backyard wedding ceremony. The camera roll ends with an unfocused interior shot, before a cement splice appears. The next camera roll begins with black-and-white footage of the beach, with several beach goers posing in front of the camera, including Mrs. Calloway. The final scenes of this roll are interior shots of what appears to be an Argentinian asada, with plenty of grilled meat and people seated at a long table eating.
place: label: Place filmed
content: Montevideo, Uruguay, Latin America, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Composers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Conductors (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Entertainers
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Holidays and festivals
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Marriage customs and rites
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Travel
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Cabell “Cab” Calloway III Collection
label: Classification
content: Archival Collections
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.273.2.4.1a
objectType: label: Type
content: silent films
label: Type
content: home movies
label: Type
content: color films (visual works)
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Creative Arts By Calloway, LLC
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acetate film
label: Dimensions
content: Length (film strip): 450 Feet
label: Dimensions
content: Duration: 00:16:03