Descriptive Summary: 1162f., b&w, a compilation reel created by Ernie Smith
1. Small boy dancing on a barge
Descriptive Summary: silent
Copyright: 1893
2. Two young boys dancing on a flat-bed truck
Copyright: 1929
3. The Buck Dance
Copyright: early 1950s
Performer(s): Horace Sprott
4. Stair dance
Copyright: 1932
Performer(s): Bill Robinson
5. King for a Day, excerpt
Copyright: 1934
Corporate Creator: The Vitaphone Corporation
Director: Roy Mack
Performer(s): Bill Robinson
Song Title(s): "Old Folks at Home", "Old Black Joe", etc.
6. Tip, Tap, and Toe
Copyright: 1936
Performer(s): Sammy Green, Teddy Frazier and Raymond Winfield
7. Tip, Tap, and Toe
Copyright: 1944
Performer(s): Sammy Green, Teddy Frazier and Raymond Winfield with the Jack Teagarden Orchestra
Song Title(s): "Stompin' at the Savoy"
8. Ace Gibson and Eddie Thompson
Copyright: 1933
9. Varsity Show, excerpt
Copyright: 1937
Corporate Creator: Warner Brothers
Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Director: William Keighley
Performer(s): Dick Powell, John Bubbles and Buck Washington
10. Unidentified
Copyright: early 1960s
Performer(s): John Bubbles, dance and song later joined by Perry Como
11. Unidentified
Copyright: 1933
Performer(s): Sammy Davis, Jr., as a young boy
12. An All Colored Vaudeville Show
Copyright: 1935
Corporate Creator: The Vitaphone Company
Director: Roy Mack
Performer(s): The Nicholas Brothers
13. Stormy Weather, excerpt
Copyright: 1943
Corporate Creator: 20th Century Fox
Producer: William LeBaron
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Performer(s): The Nicholas Brothers, Cab Calloway Orchestra
Song Title(s): "The Jumpin' Jive"
Video reference copy
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Collection Citation:
Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Sponsor:
America's Jazz Heritage: A Partnership of the The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution provided the funding to produce many of the video master and reference copies.