Basin Street Revue (1955)
Running Time: 41 mins Black & White
Starring: Sarah Vaughn, Lionel Hamton
Music videos of the 1940's (then called "soundies"). Features various 1940's performers.

Black And Tan (1935)
Running Time: 19 mins Black & White
Starring: Duke Ellington
Early jazz feartuing the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)
Black & White


Edsel Show, The (1957)
Running Time: 32 mins Black & White
Starring: Bing Crosby,Frank Sinatra,Louis Armstrong
Ford authorized a massive, star-studded network television spectacular to give their new Edsel maximum exposure. Bing Crosby was hired to host a LIVE jazz music extravaganza on CBS Television shortly after the Edsel's introduction. Crosby convinced pals Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, and Louis Armstrong to join him, with a "surprise" visit by Bob Hope. These well known and loved entertainers were at the peak of their careers at the time, and their presence virtually assured a massive audience. Indeed, "The Edsel Show" telecast was one of the highest rated and well regarded programs of the year.

Goodyear Jazz Concert (Volume One) )
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Louis Armstrong

Goodyear Jazz Concert (Volume Two) )
Black & White
Starring: Bobby Hackett

Jivin Bebop (1946)
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Dizzy Gillespie, Helen Humes, R. Sneed
Offering rare footage of Dizzy Gillespie and the Orchestra, performing live on stage. Widely credited with the invention of the form of jazz known as bop. Gillespie's showmanship and infectious personality played a large role in the acceptance of music.

Music And Comedy Masters (Volume Five) (1940s)
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White

Includes "Sepian Swing" with Cab Calloway and The King Cole Trio, "Sepia Stars on Parade" with Herb Jefferies, Fats Waller, Bill Robinson, Dorothy Dandridge, The Mills Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole and Louis Jordan and "Rhapsody in Black and Blue" with Louis Armstrong and Orchestra.

Music And Comedy Masters (Volume Four) (1940s)
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White

Includes "Come To Baby Do" with Nat King Cole Trio, "Bundle Of Blues" with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway's "Jitterbug Party", Count Basie & Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, Harlem Hotshots, "Sugar Chill" and "Black & Tan" with Duke Ellington

Music And Comedy Masters (Volume One) (1940s)
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White

Includes "Blues and Boogie" with Maxine Sullivan and Nat King Cole, "Murder in Swingtime" with Les Hite & Orchestra, "Ain't Misbehaving" with Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong, "Bubbling Over" with Ethel Waters, "Boogie Woogie Dream" with Lena Horne and "Caledonia" with Louis Jordan.

Music And Comedy Masters (Volume Six) (1940s)
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White

Includes "Dry Bones" with the Delta Rhythm Boys, "Open the Door Richard" with Dusty Fletcher, "Slow Poke" with Stepin Fetchit and "Spying the Spy", a rare 1915 Black Short Subject on private eye stories.

Music And Comedy Masters (Volume Three) (1940s)
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White

Includes "Marian Anderson Sings", "Sarah Vaughn Sings", "Symphony in Balck" with Duke Ellington and "Basin Street Review" with Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole, Nipsey Russell and Dinah Washington.

Music And Comedy Masters (Volume Two) (1940s)
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White

Includes "Minnie the Moocher" with Cab Calloway, "Jittering Jitterbugs" with Hamtree Harrington, "Heavenly Choir", "St. Louis Blues" with Bessie Smith, "Showtime at the Apollo" with Mantan Moreland, Lionel Hampton and Nat King Cole and "Hi De Ho" with Cab Calloway.

Newport Jazz Festival (1962) (1962)
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Joe Williams, Oscar Peterson, Peewee Russell,The Oscar Peterson Trio, Lambert Hendricks and Bavan, Roland Kirk, Clara Ward Singers, Ruby Braff, Pee Wee Russell, Duke Ellington and his Orchestra.
Classic performances by many Jazz greats make this a must-have item for jazz lovers. Dir. Buddy Bregman

Rock And Roll Revue (1955)
Running Time: 38 mins Black & White
Starring: Dinah Washington, Duke Ellington and His Band, Larry Darnell, Coles & Arkins, The Clovers, Nat King Cole, Lionel Hampton, Martha Davis
Musical comedy revue featuring top African-American performers.

Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956)
Running Time: 78 mins Black & White
Starring: Chuck Berry, Tuesday Weld, Fats Domino, Alan Freed, La Vern Baker, Johnny Burnette, Frankie Lymon, Voice of Connie Francis.
After her allowance is cut off by her father, Tuesday Weld desperately tries to earn enough money for a prom dress. Features many big acts of the era. Weld's screen debut. Dir. Will Price

Twist Around the Clock (1961)
Running Time: 86 mins Black & White
Starring: Chubby Checker,Dion
A struggling manager visits a hayseed town and discovers a new dance craze, and hopes to turn it into a overnight nationwide sensation. Features performances by Chubby Checker and Dion.

Video Scapbook: Harlem Swings (Volume I) (1930's)
Running Time: ## mins Black & White
Starring: Eubie Blake, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Les Hite
Great Jazz Bands of the 30's.

Video Scapbook: Harlem Swings (Volume II) )
Running Time: ## mins Black & White
Starring: Nat King Cole, Lionel Hampton, Sarah Vaughn, Nipsy Russell, Count Basie, Dinah Washington and more.
The Nat King Cole Sthe story of the rise to fame of one of our greatest singers. Plus Basin Street Revue."

Video Scapbook: Harlem Swings (Volume III) )
Running Time: ## mins Black & White
Starring: Dusty Fletcher, Stepin Fetchit,Ethel Waters, Louis Jordan and others.
All Black cast musical comedy short subjects.

Video Scapbook: Harlem Swings (Volume IV) )
Running Time: ## mins Black & White

The Harlem Hot Shots, Louis Armstrong, The Ebony Trio, Lena Horne, Lionel Hampton, Ruth Brown and others.