This release compiles archival footage of various tap dancing performances, drawing on the Vaudville tradition. The clips,...
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2011
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The 1940s was a monumental decade for the United States. Amid World War II, economic recovery, and the start of the Cold...
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1998
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1995
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In the mid-1920's, just as jazz was firmly establishing itself as America's dominant popular music form, new advancements in...
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1993
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1990
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In the Storyville Films series Harlem Roots, the fourth film deals with a more upbeat tempo. The popular "Soundies," which...
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1988
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Built around the premise of a Big Stage Show, Stormy Weather affords rare "mainstream" leading roles to some of the era's...
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Bill Williamson
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1943
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Two imprisoned con men become ace football players on the prison team in this comedy. They get into real trouble when the...
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1938
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and...
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1938
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In this exciting action film, a young Indy driver endeavors to emulate his famous father, and restore his dad's good...
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1938
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Just Around the Corner is the film in which little Shirley Temple ends the Depression all by herself! The story starts...
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1938
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Within the framework of a conventional newspaper yarn, One Mile From Heaven raises several controversial issues. Scoop-happy...
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1937
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This lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace...
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Choreography
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1936
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The old Edward Peble play The Littlest Rebel was gussied up in 1935 as a Shirley Temple vehicle. The curly-topped child star...
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Uncle Billy
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1935
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Obviously filmed on a tight budget, RKO Radio's Hooray for Love nevertheless has as much sheer entertainment value as any...
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1935
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Oklahoma's own Will Rogers stars in In Old Kentucky. The storyline is in the grand tradition of most films about the...
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1935
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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1935
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Shirley Temple's first costume picture -- and one of her best pictures of any kind -- was 1935's The Little Colonel. The...
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1935
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1935
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Harlem is Heaven is one of the many low-budget 1930s films designed to cater to the "all-colored" trade. The fabulous...
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Bill
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1932
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Hoping to repeat the success of its 1929 musical spectacular Rio Rita, RKO Radio reteamed leading lady Bebe Daniels and the...
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1930
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