At Your Service
At Your Service – 1940s
MORE ...Male Order
Gags & Gals: Male Order – 1940s
MORE ...Moonlight Cocktails
Moonlight Cocktails – 1942
MORE ...Ted Weems Orchestra
You know you’ve made the Big Time when you’re leading a band that’s accompanied with a chorus line of perky flappers. But then again, if you’re Ted Weems in the early 1930’s, this is the life of a famous radio bandleader. Just another day at the beach on the Eastern Seaboard during the Jazz Age, […]
MORE ...Amalia Aguila: Afro Mood
Exotic burlesque dancer short from the forties, with a faux-Arabian theme. Perhaps something you would have seen in Havana after losing at the casino, pre-Castro. Starring Amalia Aguilar. Saucy.
MORE ...A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor
Stage, radio and film star Eddie Cantor puts on a classic vaudeville routine including a few jokes in between breaking into song. One of the biggest entertainers of the early 20th century, the type self-deprecating humor he helped define can still has influence today with comedians such as Letterman, Conan, and Jon Stewart. Lately, Cantor […]
MORE ...Tica Ti – Tica Ta
Tica Ti Tica Ta, produced in 1942, stars “dynamite swing singer” Ginger Harmon and vaudeville dancing team the Mercer Brothers. On April 18, 1942 Billboard’s Movie Machine Reviews writes, “Ginger Harmon and the Mercer Brothers don South American garb for Tica Ti – Tica Ta. Ginger sings well and the nimble Mercer boys contribute a […]
MORE ...Amazing Tap Dancing with Little Buck
Tap dancer Conrad “Little Buck” Buckner was most know for his appearances on television variety shows in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Little Buck is noted for a 1965 challenge performance with Peg Leg Bates on the Ed Sullivan show, upon which he performed at least six times. Billie Mahoney, who Buck was often booked with […]
MORE ...Duke Ellington’s Black and Tan
Duke Ellington makes his film debut in the short produced in 1929 based on his pivotal composition Black and Tan Fantasy.
MORE ...Zip Code with the Swingin’ Six
As the American communities and cities grew in the mid-twentieth century, so did the complexity of managing the immense mass of mail posted each day. The postal service needed a new process in which to map a package to it’s recipient. From this was born the Zip Code system. In this educational film aimed at […]
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