1924-1928BLACK ENTERTAINERS
VARIOUS SHORTS FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FROM THE FOWLER STUDIO ND LEE DE FOREST "PHONO-FILMS" 1924-28
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EARLY ALL-BLACK CAST AFRICAN AMERICAN DANCING TEAM "THE FOUR COVANS" INCLUDING YOUNG WILLIE COVAN AND legendary tap dancers "Slow Kid" Thompson, and Leonard Ruffin AFRICAN AMERICAN TAP DANCE TEAM
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| 01:01:32 92.64 |
TESSIE MAIZE & HER DARK TOWN STRUTTERS - LOVELY YOUNG BLACK VAUDEVILLE SINGER SINGS " SOME DAY SWEETHEART " 1927 BLACK COMPOSITION - BLACK CHORUS LINE BEHIND HER - BLACK VAUDEVILLE CLIP
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| 01:03:32 212.51 |
BLACK TAP DANCE TEAM COMES OUT ON STAGE AND DANCES ALONG HOT 1920'S BLACK JAZZ
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| 01:04:55 295.86 |
RUBY DARBY
TELL THE WORLD HE'S MINE
(live)
"QUEEN OF THE BLUES SINGERS" RUBY DARBY - BLACK JAZZ AGE POP SINGER PERFORMS LIVE ON STAGE WITH HOT JAZZ BAND BEHIND HER AND BLACK CHORUS LINE - THIS CLIP IS VERY CLOSE TO AN ACTUAL 1920S ALL BLACK REVIEW
BLACK DANCER IN BLACK FACE COMES OUT |
| 01:07:47 467.3 |
BLACK TAP DANCER ECCENTRIC DANCER DANCES IN NIGHT CLUB SETTING TO LIVE JAZZ BAND 1928 TO THE SONG "SHINE"
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| 01:08:46 526.51 |
BLACK ROARING TWENTIES CHORUS GIRLS DANCE IN SPEAKEASY TO ?MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN IS SHINNING" DANCE TO HOT JAZZ BAND LIVE IN SMALL NIGHTCLUB SETTING SCANTILY CLAD LOVELY BLACK CHORUS GIRLS
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| 01:09:46 586.92 |
"HARLEM" NIGHT CLUB IN HARLEM LATE 192O'S CHORUS GIRLS , ECCENTRIC DANCER AND HOT JAZZ BAND PERFORM IN SMALL SPEAK EASY SETTING
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| 01:10:49 650 |
BLACK PATRONS IN NIGHT CLUB
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| 01:10:55 655.1 |
BLACK DANCE TEAM PERFORM LIVE IN NIGHTCLUB ACCOMPANIED BY SMALL JAZZ BAND - SPEAKEASY ENTERTAINMENT CIRCA 1928 - CUTAWAYS TO BLACK AUDIENCE MEMBERS APPLAUDING AND DRINKING AT THEIR TABLES
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| 01:13:23 803.13 |
BLACK CHORUS GIRLS DANCE IN NIGHT CLUB SPEAKEASY TO HOT BLACK JAZZ BAND
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| 01:13:53 833.92 |
BLACK DANCERS IN SPEAKEASY DANCE TO JAZZ BAND SCANTILY CLAD CHORUS LINE
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| 01:14:34 874.6 |
OPENING CREDIT OF BLACK PRODUCED FILM. THE TITLE CARD READS: "THE EXILE-ALL TALKING EPIC OF NEGRO LIFE"
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| 01:14:47 887.9 |
ON FILM NOTICE" "DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS STORY AND THE ACTION ---CERTAIN SCENES AND TALKING HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED BY THE CENSOR BOARD"
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| 01:15:08 908.81 |
BLACK SPEAKEASY SCENE CIRCA 1929 SCANTILY CLAD BLACK CHORUS GIRLS DANCE TO JAZZ BAND BLACK NIGHTCLUB PATRONS LOOK ON
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| 01:15:58 958.5 |
BAND LEADER INTRODUCES SINGER ROWLAND PORTER OF THE "CONNIE'S HOT CHOCOLATES" REVIEW PRODUCTION - PORTER TAP DANCES TO THE TUNE " SHINE" BLACK TAP DANCING - ECCENTRIC DANCING 1920S
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| 01:17:11 1031.72 |
BLACK SINGER PERFORMS IN NIGHT CLUB - SINGS TORCH SONG LIVE WITH BLACK BAND ACCOMPANYING HER - TRAINED VOICE SEMI OPERATIC
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| 01:29:40 1780.75 |
TEDDY BROWN & HIS BAND
MEDLEY - HUMORESQUE
(live)
EXTREMELY OBESE COMIC VAUDEVILLE XYLOPHONIST TEDDY BROWN PERFORMS HIS VAUDEVILLE ACT IN 1924 FOR LEE DEFOREST'S EARLY PHONOFILM SOUND ON FILM EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS - PRE-VITAPHONE
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| 01:39:39 2379.61 |
1925 PRODUCTION SCENES OF EARLY SOUND FILM OF VAUDEVILLE - RAGTIME GUITARIST JOE TERMINE PLAYING TWELVE STRING GUITAR "I'M SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD"
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| 01:41:05 2465.52 |
VAUDEVILLE COMEDY STRING MUSICIAN JOE TERMINE ON FIDDLE PERFORMS SENTIMENTAL BALLAD - VARIOUS UN-CONSTRUCTED UNEDITED SCENES FROM AN EARLY CIRCA 1925 SOUND FILM BY LEE DE FOREST
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| 01:43:28 2608.53 |
JOE TERMINE - FIDDLE NOVELTY TUNE VAUDVILLE " WHEN MY SUGAR WALKS DOWN THE STREET ALL THE LITTLE BIRDIES GO TWEET TWEET TWEET"
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| 01:44:05 2645.39 |
JOE TERMINE
FIVE FOOT TWO EYES OF BLUE
(live)
1925 VAUDEVILLE BANJO SOLO
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| 01:46:28 2788.79 |
JOE TERMINE
SOME OF THESE DAYS
(live)
VAUDEVILLE COMIC STRING MUSICIAN JOE TERMINE PERFORMS NOVELTY COMIC TUNE ON FIDDLE ( OUT OF SYNC) - "SOME OF THESE DAYS"
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| 01:48:55 2935.94 |
MS OF DISPLAY WINDOW IF 1920'S RADIO SHOP " THE CORNER RADIO SHOP"
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| 01:49:03 2943.5 |
CLERK IN RADIO SHOP, TUBES ON COUNTER, VARIOUS EARLY LIGHT BULBS,
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| 01:50:08 3008.58 |
BEN BERNIE & HIS ORCHESTRA
SWEET GEORGIA BROWN
(live)
THIS IS THE FIRST EVER SOUND FILM OF A REAL JAZZ BAND PERFORMING LIVE -JACK PETTIS ON ALTO SAXOPHONE - FIRST JAZZ SOLO ON FILM 1925
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| 01:53:05 3185.04 |
LIVE RADIO DRAMA PERFORMED ON STAGE IN RADIO STUDIO
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