Film clip from Camera Three: Over the Top To BeBop
date: label: Date
content: 1965
name: label: Produced by
content: CBS Broadcasting, Inc., American, founded 1927
label: Subject of
content: Charles "Honi" Coles, American, 1911 - 1992
label: Subject of
content: Charles Atkins, American, 1913 - 2003
label: Subject of
content: Marshall Stearns PhD, American, 1908 - 1966
label: Subject of
content: James Macandrew, Scottish American, ca. 1907 - 1988
label: Owned by
content: Ernie Smith, American, ca. 1925 - 2004
notes: label: Description
content: A strip of 16 mm motion picture film with an excerpt from "Over the Top to Bebop," an episode of the Camera Three television program aired on WCBS-TV. It consists of a single reel of positive, black-and-white, 16 mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical sound. It opens with jazz scholar Marshall Stearns and host James Macandrew engaging in a conversation about tap dancing. Stearns goes on to describe Honi Coles and Cholly Atkins as class acts and their soft-shoe tap routine as a "classic." Subsequently, he invites Coles and Atkins to perform their soft-shoe tap dance "to an incredibly slow tempo." The camera then cuts to both men dancing slowly on a slightly raised platform, mirroring each other's movements, as instrumental music plays in the background. At the end of their performance, the dancers join Macandrew and Stearns. Macandrew comments that he recognizes the music they performed to from the Broadway musical Cabin in the Sky featuring Ethel Waters, to which Honi Coles responds that Ethel Waters frequently watched their rehearsals, just before the excerpt comes to an end.
place: label: Place filmed
content: New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Television
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Camera Three
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, Anonymous Gift in memory of Ernest (Ernie) R. Smith, Jazz Historian
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.275.16.1a
objectType: label: Type
content: sound films
label: Type
content: black-and-white films (visual works)
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
label: Type
content: film clips
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions likely apply. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acetate film
label: Dimensions
content: Duration (digital file): 00:04:13
label: Dimensions
content: Physical extent (film): 150 ft