Film clips from the documentary American Music - From Folk to Jazz and Pop
date: label: Date
content: 1966; re-issued 1967
name: label: Directed by
content: Stephen Fleischman, 1919 - 2011
label: Directed by
content: Jonathan Donald
label: Produced by
content: ABC, American, founded 1948
label: Subject of
content: Percy Humphrey, American, 1905 - 1995
label: Subject of
content: Billy Taylor, American, 1921 - 2010
label: Subject of
content: Benny Goodman, American, 1909 - 1986
label: Subject of
content: Eureka Brass Band, American, founded ca. 1920
label: Subject of
content: Jack Teagarden, American, 1905 - 1964
label: Subject of
content: Bix Beiderbecke, American, 1903 - 1931
label: Owned by
content: Ernie Smith, American, ca. 1925 - 2004
notes: label: Description
content: A motion picture film with clips from the documentary American Music - From Folk to Jazz and Pop. It consists of a single reel of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical sound. The film opens with footage from a funeral service and the Eureka Marching Band conducting a street procession. Percy Humphry, the leader of the Eureka Marching Band, describes how the band conducts these funeral parades. In the next scene, a ferry can be seen traveling up a river. The narrator describes how jazz "traveled up the Mississippi to Memphis, to St. Louis where it developed its own forms, and northeastward to Chicago where a young man with a horn by the name of Bix Beiderbecke captured the style of such emigrants such as King Oliver and Louis Armstrong.” Other musicians featured include Jack Teagarden and Benny Goodman who the narrator says transformed jazz into swing. In the last scene, jazz musician Billy Taylor performs with five other bandmates before engaging in a discussion about jazz’s development. He says that, "Jazz is a chronological development and each stage of its development has built upon what went before." He subsequently demonstrates the development of jazz and the different types of jazz beats using his piano.
place: label: Place depicted
content: New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Documentary films
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Funeral customs and rites
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Musicians
label: Topic
content: Television
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
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: 2015.275.25.1a
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): 00:12:31
label: Dimensions
content: Physical extent (film): 480 ft