Including ‘soundies, ‘snader’ telescriptions, Lee Deforrest Productions and animation. ‘Soundies’ were three minute films from the RCM corporation. They were originally produced between 1940-46 for a visual juke box which were in bars and clubs across America. In fact an early forerunner of the video jukebox. (see' The Soundies' in A to Z docus) Snader telescriptions started in 1950 and were used for fill- ins on television. Like 'soundies' and the Universal International shorts they have been repackaged over the years under various names and have become a valuable archive of early jainzz on film. These 'soundies' and 'snaders' are listed alphabetically by title of song. They are also listed by artist


Soundies

After Hours • with singer Herb Jeffries
Ain’t misbehavin’• with Fats Waller, Gene Cedric and Al Casey
Air Mail Special • with Count Basie

Air Mail Special • with Lionel Hampton
America I love with the Claude Thornehill Orchestra
Bar Babble with Jimmy Dorsey
Barnyard Bounce • with Will Bradley and drummer Ray McKinley
Because I Love You with Luckey Millinder and his Band
BeeBee • with Tommy Dorsey
Bli-Blip •1942 • with Duke Ellington
Blues in the Night •1942 • with Cab Calloway
Blowtop Blues • 1945 with Cab Calloway
Blues in the Night with Cab Calloway
Boardwalk Boogle with Will Bradley
Boogie Woogie 1944 with Meade Lux Lewis

Boogie Woogie Dream 1941 with Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson
Buzz Me 1945 with Louis Jordan
A Case of the Blues with Maxine Sullivan with Gillespie and Benny Carter
Cab Calloway Medley
Caravan with the Mills Brothers
Cobb's Idea Lionel Hampton Band ( this may be a snader transcription)
Come to Baby Do with Nat King Cole
Close Shave with John Kirby
C Jam Blues • 1942 with Duke Ellington

 

Chilli and Beans Avoutie with Slim Gaillard
Contrast in Rhythm with Cecil Scott
Count Me Out 1946 with Red Allen and J.C. Higginbotham
Crawl Red Crawl with Red Allen and J.C.Higginbotham
Deacon Jones 1944 with Wingy Manone
Don’t be a Baby,Baby 1946 with Joe Marsala
Down,Down,Down 1942 with Lois Jordan
Drink Hearty 1946 with Red Allen an J C Higginbotham
Dunkin’ Bagel 1946 with Slim Gaillard
Dynamite O’Rooney 1946 with Slim Gaillard
Eager Beaver 1945 with Stan Kenton
Errand Boy for Rhythm 1946 with Nat King Cole
Five Guys Named Moe 1942 with Louis Jordan
Flamingo 1942 with Duke Ellington with Johnny Hodges soloing
Foo a Little Ballyhoo with Cab Calloway
Four or five Times with Lucky Millinder
Frim Fram Sauce 1945 with Nat King Cole
Fuzzy Wuzzy 1942 with Louis Jordan
Got a Penny, Benny 1946 with Nat King Cole
Harlem Serenade with Luckey Millinder
Hello Bill with
Hoboken Bounce • with Slim Gaillard
Honey chile • 1945 • with Louis Jordan
Honeysuckle Rose 1941 with Fats Waller
Hong Kong blues 1943 with Hoagy Carmichael
Hop,Skip and Jump • 1942 • with Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra
Hot Chocolate/ Cottontail 1941 with Duke Ellington
Hot Frogs • 1942 with Fats Waller
La Rosita with J immy Dorsey
House on 52nd Street • 1946 • with Henry Red Allen and J. C. Higginbotham
ILeft my Sugar in Salt Lake City • 1944 with Wingy Malone
Was Here When You Left Me • 1945 withCab Calloway
If you Can't Smile and Say Yes •1944 with Louis Jordan
I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You • 1942 with Louis Armstrong
I’m a Shy Guy • 1943 with Nat King Cole
I’m Gonna Love That Guy • 1945 with Stan Kenton and June Christy
I’m Just a Lucky So and So • 1946 with Ray Baudoc
It’s Been a Long, Long Time • 1945 with June Christy and Stan Kenton
I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good with Ivy Anderson
I Want a Big Fat Mamma with Luckey Millinder
I Was Here When You Left Me with Cab Calloway
Ja Da • 1942 with Harry Levine and his Dixieland Band
Jam Session• 1942 with Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Rex Stewart
Jammin' on a Panoram with Stan Kenton
Joint is Jumpin' with Fats Waller
Jordan Melody with Louis Jordan
Jordan Jive • 1944 with Louis Jordan
Juke Box Joe’s • 1944 with Wingy Malone
Jump Children • 1946 8 with The International Sweethearts of Rythm
Jumpin’ at the Jubillee• 1944 withLouis Jordan
Lady Be good • with Artie Shaw
Laguna • 1946 with Slim Gaillard
Lazy Bones • Hoagy Carmichael
Let Me Off Uptown • 1942 with Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge and Anita O’Day
Lonesome Lover with Billie Eckstine
Low Down Dog • 1944 with Meade Lux Lewis
Minnie the Moocher • 1942 with Cab Calloway
Mop • 1946 with Red Allen and J C Hiigginbotham
My New Gown • 1944 with Lena Horne plus Albert Ammons, and Teddy Wilson
Never Too Old to Swing • 1945 with Tiny Grimes
Oh! Look • 1943 with Jimmy Dorsey
One Bass Hit • with Dizzy Gillespie
One is Never Too Old to Swing • 1945
• with Tiny Grimes
Old Man Mose • 1942 with Louis Jordan
Pudgy Boy with Les Hite
Ration blues • 1944with Louis Jordan
Reed Rapture • 1942 with Stan Kenton
Roll em’ • 1944 with Meade Lux Lewis
Romance Without Finance with Tiny Grimes
Rhythm on the river • 1944 with Wingy Manone
Saints go Marchin’ in • 1943 with Wingy Manone
Satin Doll • with Duke Ellington
She's Crazy with the Heat with International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Shine • 1942 with Louis Armstrong
Shine on your Shoes • 1946 with Ray Baudoc
Sing, Sing Sing • 1944 with Wingy Manone
Skunk Song • 1942 with Cab Calloway
Skylark • 1942 with Sonny Durham
Sleepy Time Down South • 1942 with Louis Armstrong
Some of these Days • 1942 with Maxine Sullivan
Southern Scandle • 1945 with Stan Kenton
Spirit of Boogie Woogie • 1942 with Meade Lux Lewis
Sugar Hill Masquerade • 1942 with Gene Krupa
Swingin’ on Nothin’ • 1942 with Louis Armstrong
T.G. Boogie Woogie • 1945 with Tiny Grimes
Take Me Back Baby • 1941 with Count Basie and Jimmy Rushing
That Man of Mine with The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Thanks for the Boogie ride • 1942 with Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge and Anita O’Day
This Joint is Jumpin’ • 1942 with Fats Waller
Tillie’ • 1945 with Louis Jordan
Tired of Waiting for You • 1943 with Jimmy Dorsey
Unlucky Woman with Lena Horne, Teddy Wilson, Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons
Vine Street Blues • 1943 with Wingy Monone
Virginia, Georgia and Caroline with Cab Calloway
Walkin’ with my Honey • 1945 with Cab Calloway
Waller Medley with Fats Waller
We the Cats • 1945 with Cab Calloway
Whole Bunch of Something • 1943 with Jimmy Dorsey
Your Feet’s Too Big • 1941 with Fats Waller

'Soundies' by artist

Albert Ammons Boogie Woogie Dream Artie Shaw Lady Be Good Gene Krupa Let Me Off Uptown Sugar Hill Masquerade Thanks for the Boogie ride Billy Eckstine Lonesome Lover I Cried for You I Want to Talk About You Prisoner of Love Rhythm in a Riff You Call it Madness Count Basie Air Mail Special Take Me Back Baby Cab Calloway Blowtop Blues Blues in the night Foo a Little Ballyhoo I Was Here When You Left Me Minnie the Moocher Skunk Song Virginia, Georgia and Caroline Walkin’ with my Honey We the Cats Cecil Scott Contrast in Rhythm Don' t Be Late Mr X Blues I'm Making Believe Charlie Spivak Hop, Skip and Jump Claude Thorne Hill Orchestra America I love Dizzy Gillespie One Bass Hit Biily Eckstine I Cried for you I Want to Talk About You Lonsome Lover Blues Prisoner of Love Rhythm in a Riff You Call it Madness Duke Ellington BliBlip C Jam Blues Flamingo Hot Chocolate/ Cottontail Jam Session Satin Doll Fats Waller Ain’t misbehaving Honeysuckle Rose Hot Frogs This Joint is Jumpin’ Waller Medley Your Feet’s Too Big Harry Levine Ja Da Jimmy Dorsey Oh! Look Tired of Waiting for You Whole Bunch of Something Bar Babble La Rosita Man's That's Groovy My Sister and I Au Reet Hoagy Carmichael Hong Kong Blues Lazy Bones The International Sweethearts of Rhythm Jump Children She’s Crazy With the Heat That Man of Mine Ivy Anderson I’ve Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good Joe Marsala Don’t be a Baby, Baby Millennium Jump The Boy and the Girl from North and South Carolina Southern Comfort John Kirby Close Shave Tweed Me June Christy with Stan Kenton It’s Been a Long, Long Time Tampico I’m Gonna Love That Guy Lena Horne My New Gown Unlucky Woman Boogie Woogie Dream Les Hite Pudgy Boy The Devil Sat Down and Cried What to Do That Ol' Ghost Train Maxine Sullivan A Case of the Blues Some of these Day Tony Pastor For Whom the Bell Tolls Corn on th Conga Paradiddle Joe Oh Marie • 1941 Doin’ the Ratamancue  That Did It Marie  Good Morning, Mr Zip Zip Zip Lets Do It

Louis Armstrong I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You Shine Sleepy Time Down South Swingin’ on Nothin’ Louis Jordon Buzzme Down, Down, Down Five Guys Named Moe Fuzzy Wuzzy Honey Chile If you Can’t Smile and Say Yes Jordon Melody Jordon Jive Jumpin’ at the Jubillee Old Man Mose Ration Blues Tillie’ Lucky Millinder Because I love you Harlem Serenade Want a Big Fat Mamma Hello Bill Shout Sister Shout Four or five Times Meade Lux Lewis Boogie Woogie Low Down Dog Roll ‘em Spirit of Boogie Woogie The Mills Brothers Caravan Rockin' Chair Paper Doll Till Then You Always Hurt the One you love Lazy River Cielito Lindo Nat King Cole Come to Baby Do Errand Boy for Rhythm Frim Fram Sauce Got a Penny Benny I’m a Shy Guy Ray Baudoc I’m Just a Lucky So and So Shine on your Shoes Solid Jive Man with the Weird Beard Red Allen with J. C. Higginbotham Count me out Crawl Red Crawl Drink Hearty House on 52nd Street Mop Slim Gaillard Dunkin’ Bagel Dynamite O’Roony Chilli Beans and Avouti Hoboken Bounce Laguna Stan Kenton Eager Beaver I’m Gonna Love That Guy with June Christie Reed Rapture Southern Scandal It’s Been a Long, Long Time with June Christie Tampico with June Christie Jammin' on a Panoram Moonlight Masquerade This Love Of Mine White Cliffs Of Dover Angels Of Mercy The Outline Of Jitterbug History Jealous Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes St James Infirmary Congo Clambake Two Guitars In Jive Sonny Durham Skylark Sleepy Lagoon Lamp Lighters Serenade At the Club Savoy Tiny Grimes One is Never Too Old to Swing Romance Without Finance T.G Boogie Woogie Joseph and his Brudders Swingin ' in th groove Will Bradley Barnyard Bounce Boardwalk Boogle Jack and jill I'm Tired of Waiting for You Deed I Do Wingy Manone Deacon Jones I Left my Sugar in Salt Lake City Juke Box Joe’s Rhythm on the River Saints go Marchin’ in Sing, Sing, Sin Vine Street Blues Jimmy Dorsey Oh! Look Bar Babble Man Thats Groovy La Rosita Au Reet A Whole Bunch of Something Tired of Waiting for you My Sister and I Bob Howerd Dinah Shine She's Too Hot to Handle

Snader transcriptions

In 1950's the Snader corporation produced three minute films featuring popular artistes of the day
including numerous jazz musicians for use as fill- ins on television

Always You • Nat King Cole
America, I Love You • Claude Thornhill
American Patrol • Red Nichols
Andy’s Boogie • with Charlie Barnet
Angel Eyes • with Heb Jeffries
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home • with Herb Jeffries
Back Room Blues with Red Nichols and his Five Pennies
Basie Boogie with Count Basie, Wardell Gray, Buddy DeFranco, Freddie Green and Joe Jones
Basie’s Conversation same as above but Gus Johnson in place of Jo Jones
Basin Street Blues • with Jack Teagarden
Beulah’s Boogie with Lionel Hampton’ Orchestra
Big Noise From Winnetka • with Billy Butterfield, Jess Stacy, Matty Matlock, Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc
Blacksmith Blues with Jack Teagarden
Bongo Interlude 1951 with Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra
Brass Bell 1950 with the Fire House Five
Calloway Boogie 1950 with Cab Calloway
Calypso Blues 1951 with Nat King Cole
Caravan 1950 with Charlie Barnet
Caravan 1952 with Duke Ellington
Cherokee 1950 with Charlie Barnet
Cobb’s Idea 1951 with Lionel Hampton ( this may be a soundie)
Complainin’ 1952 with The Bobcats
Conception 1951• with George Shearing
Daddy 1952 with Bobby Troup
Dark Eyes • Jack Teagarden

 

Ding Dong Baby 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Down yonder 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Everybody Loves My Baby 1951 with The Firehouse Five
Firehouse Stomp 1950 with The Firehouse Five
Flamingo 1950 with Herb Jeffries
For Sentimental Reasons • 1951 with Nat King Cole
Georgia on my Mind • 1952 with JackTeagarden
Goat Blues • 1951 with Pete Daily and his Chicagoans
The Hawk Talks 1952 with Duke Ellington
ICan’t Give You Anything But love • 1950 with Cab Calloway
ICover the Waterfront • 1950 with Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour quartet
ICried for You • 1952 sung by Helen Humes with Count Basie, Wardell Gray and Clark Terry
If I Could Be With You • 1952 as above
I’ll Be Around • 1951 with George Shearing
I’ll Never Smile Again • 1951 with George Shearing
Imagination • 1950 with June Christy
I'm a Shy Guy • with Nat King Cole
Jack Armstrong Blues • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Little Girl • 1951 withNat King Cole
Love You like Mad Love You Like Crazy •1952 with Lionel Hampton
Lover • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Loves Got Me in a Crazy Mood • 1951 with the Bobcats with Billie Butterfield
March of the Bobcats • as above
Midnightsun • 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Minnie the Moocher • 1950 with Cab Calloway
The Mooch • 1952 with Duke Ellington
Mood Indigo • 1952 with Duke Ellington
Move • 1951 with George Shearing
My Old Flame • 1951 with Charlie Barnet
Nature Boy • 1951 withNat King Cole
Nobody’ Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
One for my Baby 1950 with Cab Calloway
One O’Clock Jump • 1950 with the Count Basie sextet with Wardell Gray and Clark Terry
Panama • 1951 with the Bobcats with Billie Butterfield and Matty Matlock
Perdido • 1952 with Sarah Vaughan
Red River Valley • 1950 with Firehouse Five
Rockin’ Chair • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Route 66 • 1951 with Nat King Cole
Savoy Blues • 1951 with Bobcats with Butterfield and Matty Matlock
Skyliner • 1950 with Charlie Barnet
Slide Hampton Slide • 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Solitude •1950 with Duke Ellington
Sophisticated Lady • 1952 with Duke Ellington
South • 1950 with the Firehouse Five
S’posin’ • 1950 with June Christy
Stars Fell on Alabama • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Swedish Pastry • 1952 with George Shearing
Sweet Lorraine • 1951 with Nat King Cole
T.V .Special • 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Taking a Chance on Love • 1950 with June Christy
That’s a Plenty • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
That’s My Girl • 1951with Nat King Cole
That’s What Makes the World ‘Round •1952 with Jack Teagarden
These Things I Offer You • 1952 withSarah Vaughan
Three Blind Mice • 1950 with Red Nichols and his Five Pennies
Too Young • 1951 with Nat King Cole
The Trouble with Me is You • 1951 with Nat King Cole
V.I.P. Boogie • 1952 with Duke Ellington
Vibe Boogie • 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Who Cares • 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Who’s Sorry Now • 1951 with Bobcats with Billy Butterfield and Matty Matlock
Wolverine Blues • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Youre Mine,You •1952 withSarah Vaughan
You’re Not the Kind • 1952 with Sarah Vaughan

Snaders' by artist

Billy Butterfield Big Noise From Winnetka Cab Calloway Calloway Boogie I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Minnie the Moocher One For My Baby St Jame's Infirmary Claude Thornhill America, I Love you Charlie Barnet Andy’s Boogie Caravan Cherokee My Old Flame Skyliner Count Basie Basie Boogie Basie’s Conversation I;f I Could Be With You I Cried For You One O’ Clock Jump Duke Ellington Caravan The Hawk Talks The Mooch Mood Indigo Solitude Sophisticated Lady That’s My Girl V.I.P Boogie Lionel Hampton’ Orchestra Beulah’s Boogie Bongo Interlude Cobb’s idea Midnight Sun Ding Dong Baby Love You Like Mad Love You Like Crazy Slide Hampton Slide T.V Special Vibe Boogie Who Cares The Fire House Five Plus Two Brass Bell Everybody Loves my Baby Firehouse Stomp Red River Valley South Hook and Ladder Blues Red Nichols American Patrol Back Room Blues Entrance of the Gladiators Three Blind Mice Battle Hymn of the Republic Jack Teagarden Basin Street Blues Blacksmith Blue Down Yonder Georgia on my Mind Jack Armstrong Blues Lover Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen Rockin’ Chair Stars Fell on Alabama That’s a Plenty That’s What Makes the World ‘Round Wolverine Blues Dark Eyes

Nat King Cole Always You Because of Rain Calypso Blues For Sentimental Reasons I’m a Shy Guy Little Girl Nature Boy Route 66 Sweet Lorraine Too Young The Trouble with Me is You This is My Night to Dream Home That's My Girl Mona Lisa You Call it Madness The Bobcats Complainin’ Love’s Got Me in a Crazy Mood March of the Bobcats Muscat Ramble Panama Savoy Blues Who’s Sorry Now George Shearing Conception I’ll Be Around I’ll Never Smile Again Move Swedish Pastry Bobby Troup Daddy Mel Torme Blue Room April Showers Youre Driving Me Crazy You Ought to Be in Pictures Pete Daily Daily Double Goat Blues Over the Waves O Tannenbaum Please Don't Talk About Me Peggy Lee I Cover the Waterfront II Don't know Enough About you I May be Wrong I Only Have Eyes For You What More Can a Woman Do Helen Humes I Cried For You I Could Be With You June Christy He's Funny That Way Imagination S’posin’ Taking a Chance on Love All God's Children Got Rhythm Sarah Vaughan Perdido The Nearness of You These Things I Offer You You’re Mine, You You’re Not the Kind Herb Jeffries Angel Eyes Baby Won’t you Please Come Home Flamingo After hours

From the forties until the mid- fifties Universal International made a series of short musical features

BILLIE HOLIDAY-COUNT BASIE-SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
Below Billie Holiday sings now Baby or Never

 

BUDDY RICH
USA 1948 • 15mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Terry Gibbs and Allen Eager

WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1948 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Shorty Rogers and Stan Getz ( see posters) In the clip below the original 'Four Brothers' are featured; Getz, Serge Chaloff, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn

CRAZY FROLIC (U I)
USA 1953 • 19 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
Les Brown with Dave Pell

WOODY HERMAN'S VARIETIES
USA 1951 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Bill Perkins

SARAH VAUGHAN AND HERB JEFFRIES
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with the Kid Ory Creole Jazz band

BILLY MAY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA1952 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

CAMPUS CAPERS
USA 15 mins • Directed by Reginald Le Borg
with Jack Teagarden and his Band

CLAUDE THORNHILL AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

CONNEE BOSWELL and LES BROWN (U I)
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Dave Pell

CHARLIE BARNET AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1947 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

CLAUDE THORNHILL AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

COOL AND CRAZY
USA 1956 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
Amongst others this one features the Chico Hamilton Quintet with Jim Hall and the Buddy Defranco Quartet with Pete Jolly at the piano

DEEP PURPLE;GENE KRUPA
USA1949 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

HARRY JAMES AND HIS MUSIC MAKERS
USA 1943 • 15mins • Directed by Will Cowan

JIMMY DORSEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1948 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

JIVIN' JAM SESSION
USA1942 • 15 mins • Directed by Reginald Le Borg
with Sonny Dunham and his Orchestra

LIONEL HAMPTON WITH HERB JEFFRIES
USA 1955 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

LIONEL HAMPTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1949 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

NAT KING COLE STORY
USA 1955 • 18 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
Universal made a number of these shorts featuring Nat King Cole

RADIO MELODIES
USA 1943 • 15 mins • Directed by Reginald Le Borg
features the Stan Kenton Orchestra

RED NICHOLS AND HIS FIVE PENNIES
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

RHYTHM MASTERS
USA 1948 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
featuring Jack Teagarden,Sonny Dunham, Louis Prima and Stan Kenton

RIOT IN RHYTHM
USA 1957 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Harry James

SALUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Ellington's classic fifties band with Hodges, Harry Carney, Ray Nance and Lawrence Brown etc.

SALUTE TO SONG
USA 1957 • 15 mins • Directed by ??
with Cal Tjader Quintet

TEX BENEKE AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA1948 • 15 mins • Directed Will Cowan

SYMPHONY IN SWING
USA 1949 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Duke Ellington

SAUTER-FINEGAN ORCHESTRA
USA 1955 • 18 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

TERESA BREWER AND THE FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
USA 1951• 16 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

Apart from Universal shorts memtioned above Paramount, Columbia and 20th Century Fox all made musical shorts featuring popular bands of the day (See TV)

Vitaphone Shorts
Vitaphone, an early sound film process, was a division of Warner Brothers. It made thousands of shorts during the late Twenties and Thirties. This is a selection of the musical ones that feature jazz musicians.

JIIMMY DORSEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USSA 1938 • 9 mins • Directed by Lloyd French

BARBER SHOP BLUE (ABC)
USA1933 • 9 mins • Directed by Joseph Henabery
with the Claude Hopkins orchestra

POLLACK AND HIS CENTRAL PARK ORCHESTRA
USA 1934 • 9 mins • Directed by Joseph Henabery

THE BLACK NETWORK  (ABC)
USA 1936 • 15 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
features Nina Mae McKinney and the Nicholas Brothers


PIE PIE BLACKBIRD (ABC)
USA 1932 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with Eubie Blake, Nina Mae McKinney
see black cast page for youtube clip

EARL BURTNETT AND HIS BILTMORE HOTEL ORCHESTRA
USA 1928 • 9 mins •

BY REQUEST
USA 1935 • 10 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with the Claude Hopkins orchestra with Ed Hall (clt) Snub Mosley (tbn)

DIXIELAND JAMBOREE
USA 1935 • 9mins
with Duke Ellington and Adelaide Hall

DON REDMAN (ABC)
USA 1934 • 10 mins • Directed by Joseph Henabery
with Sidney De Paris, Quentin Jackson

HI – DI – HO (ABC)
USA • 1937 • 10 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
Cab Calloway with Ben Webster, Doc Cheatham, Milt Hinton

ISHAM JONES AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1934 8 10 mins • Directed by Roy Mack

JERRY LIVINGSTON ASND HIS TALK OF THE TOWN MUSIC
USSA 1939 • 11 mins • Directed by Lloyd French
features the Adrian Rollini Trio

JIMMY LUNCEFORD (ABC)
USA 1936 • 10 mins • Directed by Joseph Henabery
features Willie Smith, Eddie Durham, Sy Oliver

MILLS BLUE RHYTHM BAND
USA 1933 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack

MIRRORS
USA 1934 • 9mins
features Bunny Berigan and Jimmy Dorsey with the Freddie Rich band

NINE O’CLOCK FOLK
USA 1929 • 9 mins
features the Mound City Blue Blowers

NOBLE SISSLE AND EUBIE BLAKE (ABC)
USA 1927 • 9 mins

RED NICHOLS AND HIS FIVE PENNIES
USA 1929 • 9 mins

ROGER WOLF KHAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1927 • 9mins
features the Mound City Blue Blowers

SERGE ELLIS ANS HIS EMBASSY CLUB ORCHESTRA
USA 1929 • 9mins
features Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang

SYMPHONY IN BLACK (ABC)
USA1934 • 9 mins • Directed by Fred Waller
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra with Billie Holiday

SMASH YOUR BAGGAGE (ABC)
USA 1933 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
features Roy Eldridge, Dickie Wells, Sid Catlett, Otto Hardwick

SWING CATS JAMBOREE
USA 1938 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
features Louis Prima and his Band

SWING STYLES
USA 1939 Directed by Lloyd French
with Adrian Rollini’s group

THATS THE SPIRIT (ABC)
USA 1933 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with the Noble Sissle Orchestra featuring Wilbur De Paris, Buster Bailey

WOODY HERMAN
USA 1938 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack

PAUL TREMAINE & HIS ARISTOCRATS
USA 1929 • 9 mins • Directed by ?

Other Shorts

(ABC ) All Black Cast. Between !910 and 1960 hundreds of films were produced featuring all black casts. These were made for segregated audience and were often made by black film companies. With the coming of sound more and more black musicians were filmed in a varity of settings. ( see also features)

ACCENT ON GIRLS
USA 1936 • 9mins • Directed by Fred Waller
with Ina Ray Hutton

ALL COLORED VAUDEVILLE SHOW (ABC)
USA 1935 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with Adelaide Hall and the Nicholas Brothers

BOOGIE WOOGIE DREAM
USA 1947 • 13 mins • Directed by Hans Burger
Black cast film with Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson,Teddy Wilson, Lena Horne (vocal)
This film has been split into soundies ( see above)

BLACK AND BLUE (ABC)
USA 1932 •
With Louis Armstrong

BLACK AND TAN (ABC)
USA 1929 • Directed by Dudley Murphy
Duke Ellington's very first screen appearance

BROADWAY HIGHLIGHTS
USA 1935 • 10 mins
with Claude Hopkins and Nina Mae McKinney

BUNDLE OF BLUES (ABC)
USA 1933 • 8 mins
with Duke Ellington and Ivy Anderson singing 'Stormy Weather'

CAB CALLOWAY JITTERBUG PARTY (ABC)
USA 1934 • 8 mins • Directed by Fred Waller

 

CAB CALLOWAY: HI – DI - HO
USA • 1934 • 7 mins • Directed by Fred Waller
with Eddie Barefield on baritone sax

CHOO CHOO SWING
USA • 1943 • 13 mins • Directed by Josef Berne
with Count Basie Count Basie, Jo Jones, Buck Clayton, Harry Edison, Buddy Tate, Don Byas, Dickie Wells, Freddie Green and Jimmy Rushing

COOTIE WILLIAMS AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1944 • 10 mins •
with Bud Powell

DEVILED HAMS (ABC)
USA 1937 • 10 mins •
with Erskine Hawkins and his Band

DIXIELAND JAMBOREE
USA 1935 • 9 mins
with Cab Calloway, Adelaide Hall

DON REDMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA (ABC)
USA 1934 • 10 mins •

DOWN BEAT REVIEW
USA 1955 • 30 mins •
with Count Basie, Nat King Cole and Dina Washington

DUKE ELLINGTON
USA 1943 • 9 mins • Directed by Jay Bonafield
with Carney, Webster, Hodges, Ray Nance etc.

EBONY PARADE (ABC)
USA 1947 •
Compilation of soundies with Basie, Calloway etc.

EUBIE BLAKE PLAYS (ABC)
USA 1922 ? • 4 mins •
an early Lee de Forrest production

FLAMINGO (ABC)
USA 1947 • ? mins~
Black cast film with Herb Jeffries and Lena Horne

FLICKER UP (ABC)
USA 1946 • ? mins •
Black Cast short with Billie Eckstine

FRENZY (ABC)
USA 1946 •
Black cast short with Herb Jeffries and Dorothy Dandridge

FUZZY WUZZY (ABC)
USA 1945 • ? mins •
Black cast short with Louis Jordan and Meade Lux Lewis

GENE KRUPA; America's Ace Drummer and his Orchestra
USA 1941 • 10 mins • Directed by Leslie Rouse

THE HAPPINESS REMEDY
USA 1931 • 8 mins • Directed by Ray Cozine
Paramount short featuring Ted Lewis and his Band with Jack Teagarden and Red Nichols

HARLEM FOLLIES OF 1949 (ABC)
USA 1950 •
Black cast short with John Kirby and his band plus Sid Catlett and his Band and the Slam Stewart Trio

THE HAPPINESS REMEDY
USA 1931 • 8 mins • Directed by Ray Cozine
Paramount short featuring Ted Lewis and his Band with Jack Teagarden and Red Nichols

HARLEM IS HEAVEN (ABC)
USA 1932 • 10 mins
Black cast short with Eubie Blake

HEP CAT SERENADE (ABC)
USA 1945•
Black cast short with Louis Jordon and his Band

HOAGY CARMICHAEL
USA1939 • 10 mins • Directed by Leslie Roush
This short features Hoagy (backed by Jack Teagarden and his band) singing a selection of his songs

JIMMY DORSEY
USA 1940 • 10 mins • Directed by Leslie Roush

MURDER IN SWINGTIME
USA 1937 • 10 mins • Directed by Arthur Dreifuss
feature the Les Hite Band

NIGHT IN HARLEM
USA 1947 • 10 mins •
features Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra

OOP BOOP SH'BAM
USA 1947 • 10 mins •
with Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra

FOUR HITS AND A MISTER
UK 1962 • 14 mins • Directed by Douglas Hickox
Ackar Bilk and his Band

PLAYBACK
USA 1963 • various mins• Directed by Tim Kiley
a series of promotional films featuring Andre Previn Trio, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Duke Ellington and his Band, Mahalia Jackson, Teddy Wilson

PIE PIE BLACKBIRD
USA 1932 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
features the Eubie Blake Band

ROMANCE ON THE BEAT
USA 1945 • ? mins • Directed by Bud Pollard
All black cast short featuring little known Milt Coles Trio

SYMPHONY IN BLACK (ABC)
USA1934 • 9 mins • Directed by Fred Waller
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra with Billie Holiday

SISSLE AND BLAKE (ABC)
USA 1923 • 6 mins Directed by Lee De Forrest
Perhaps one of the first films featuring black jazz musicians, the singer Noble Sissle with accompanist Eubie Blake.
Lee Deforrest in 1920 invented a system of putting sound on to film and his New york studios made hundreds of short sound films between 1921 and 1926.

 

SMASH YOUR BAGGAGE (ABC)
USA 1933 • 10 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
Song and dance with baggage handlers at Grand Central Station with Roy Eldridge, Dickie Wells and Otto Hardwicke

SWING CATS JAMBOREE
USA • 1938 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with Louis Prima 

LETS MAKE RHYTHM
USA 1947 • 20 mins • Directed by Wallace Grissell
Stan Kenton Orchestra with Shelly Manne, Kai Winding, Milt Bernhart, Bob Cooper, Eddie Safranski                                

TOOT THAT TRUMPET (ABC)
USA 1946 •
with Louis Jordan and his band

THAT'S THE SPIRIT.
USA 1933 • 12 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
A short featuring the Noble Sissle Band with Buster Bailey, Wilbur De Paris, Cora La Redd and the Washboard Serenaders.

TED HEATH AND HIS MUSIC
UK 1961 • 10 mins • Directed by Robert Henryson
The great British Big Band features Don Lusher, Bob Efford, John Hawksworth and Ronnie Verrell

WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1938 • 9mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with vocalist Lee Wiley

WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET
USA 1992 • 5 mins • Directed Barbara McCollough
with David Murray

Animation

MINE ALL MINE
UK 1969 • 5 mins • Directed by Dereck Phillips
Music by Peter Ind. The director is also, a very fine jazz guitarist ane a one time associate of Ind

BOOGIE DOODLE
Canada 1948 • 4 mins • Directed by Norman McLaren
Music by Albert Ammons, Red Allen and J C Higgenbotham

 

BEGONE DULL CARE
Canada 1949 • 8 mins • Directed by Norman McLaren
Music by a very young Oscar Peterson

MINNIE THE MOOCHER
USA 1932 • 8 mins • Directed by Dave Fleischer
Betty Boop cartoon with an animated Cab Calloway struttin' his stuff

SNOW WHITE
USA 1933 • 6 mins • Directed by Richard Fleischer
Wonderful Betty Boop cartoon with Cab Calloway

PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE
USA • 1975 • 4 mins • Directed by John Hubley
Music compoesed by Benny Carter and played by the Mel Lewis / Thad jones Band

THE THREE BOPS
USA • 1956 • 8 mins • Directed by Fritz Freleng
jazz composed and played by Shorty Rogers (tpt