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The Best of big bands & swing / Paramount Pictures ; produced for video by Bret Wood.
LIBRA DVD 002 811
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Hollywood rhythm. Paramount musical shorts ; 2.
- Hollywood rhythm. Paramount musical shorts ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swing (Music).
- Big band music.
- Popular music--United States--1931-1940.
- Popular music.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Big band music.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Best of big bands and swing
- Blue of the night
- Musical doctor
- Singapore Sue
- Office blues
- Artie Shaw's class in swing
- Her future
- Lesson in love
- Favorite melodies
- Meet the boyfriend
- Dream house
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino on Video, [2001]
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Presents ten musical shorts along with bonus performances providing an opportunity to see and hear the best in the big band era.
- Contents:
- Blue of the night (1933)
- Musical doctor (1932)
- Singapore Sue
- Office blues / Ginger Rogers (1930)
- Artie Shaw's class in swing (1939)
- Her future (1930)
- Lesson in love / (1931)
- Favorite melodies (1929)
- Meet the boyfriend (1920)
- Dream house (1932).
- Participant:
- Blue of the night / Bing Crosby ; Musical doctor / Rudy Vallee, Mae Questel ; Singapore Sue / Anna Chang, Cary Grant ; Office blues / Ginger Rogers ; Artie Shaw's class in swing / Artie Shaw ; Her future / Ethel Merman ; Lesson in love / Kelen Kane ; Favorite melodies / Ruth Etting ; Meet the boyfriend / Lillian Roth ; Dream house / Bing Crosby.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of musical shorts originally produced by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1939.
- Bonus performances: Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Ginger Rogers & Jackie Oakie, Tallulah Bankhead, Kate Smith, Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Boswell Sisters.
- OCLC:
- 46327946
- Publisher Number:
- 738329019822
- K198 Kino on Video
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