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Update · AN ALL-COLORED VITAPHONE SHOW
AN ALL-COLORED VITAPHONE SHOW
Artist and archivist Ina Archer, of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, presents early sound shorts starring Black artists, largely filmed at Brooklyn’s Vitaphone studios, together with Yamercraw: A Negro Rhapsody (1929); An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), with the Nicholas Brothers; Gjon Mili’s jazz movie masterpiece Jammin’ the Blues (1944); and Duke Ellington, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake, Nina Mae McKinney, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, and lots of extra. Dedicated to Ron Hutchinson (see A TRIBUTE TO RON HUTCHINSON on May 28.)