Fred Waller

This is the full ten minute film from which the Russ Morgan "Meet The Bandleaders" segment was created on video in the 1980s. It features Russ in his...

A Soundie featuring Del Casino and his Orchestra and Betty Jane Smith.

Minoco Soundie

A Soundie with Ginger Harmon.

A Soundie with Lanny Ross.

A Soundie with Maya's Pan-American Orchestra.

A Soundie featuring The Four King Sisters with Alvino Rey and His Orchestra.

A rising nineteen-year-old singer by the name of Billie Holiday made her screen debut in this musical landmark, which features Duke Ellington and his...

A Soundie with Ginger Harmon.

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington)...

Duke Ellington and his orchestra play two jazz compositions plus 'Stormy Weather' (sung by Ivy Anderson).

In the first of Paramount's "Headliner" series, narrator Ted Husing travels up and down and around Broadway and other main stem New York City...

Paramount's "Headliner" series, narrator Ted Husing travels up and down and around Broadway and other main stem New York City locations meeting...

Moscow Moods is a 1936 American short film directed by Fred Waller. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best...

Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.

Here is the first of two shorts Isham Jones did for Paramount. "You're Just a Dream Come True" (Theme), Medley: "I'll See You In My Dreams", "On The...

Freddie Rich and his band perform a selection of musical numbers.

In this short, introduced by Harry von Zell, Johnny Green and His Orchestra favour us with "Dinah," "Swanee River" and "Rhythm Is Our Business"...

Here is Johnny Green conducting his lush dance orchestra in a medley of four of his own popular compositions. His band singer Marjory Logan and The...

A short with music and boxing.

Ferde Grofe and His Radio Orchestra perform Grofe's "Yankee Doodle Rhapsody", an arrangement of popular American melodies.

A swing music short starring Ina Ray Hutton and her 'all-girl' band.

Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure...

Jim Bradley has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert, goes off to college, Jim becomes a garage mechanic....

Jim Bradley has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert, goes off to college, Jim becomes a garage mechanic....

Phil Spitalny and His Musical Queens, an "all girl" orchestra.

1941 Soundies musical short starring Johnny Long and Helen Young

1941 Soundies musical short starring Johnny Long and Helen Young

Soundie of the Delta Rhythm Boys' version of the eponymous classic song, accompanied by some dancing beauties.

Soundies short film in which Gracie Barrie sings "I've Got to Get Hot"

Singer-dancer Ina Ray Hutton started out on Broadway at age 8 and performed with the big bands of Harry James and Artie Shaw, but it was as a...

Ted MacDonald and his father, Edmund, sail to the South Seas to treat a cholera epidemic among the natives. Upon their return to Long Island, New...

Musical short with Isham Jones & Virginia Verrill.

Showcasing many songwriters of the 1890s, including William McKenna, Harry Armstrong, and eighty-six year old Theodore Metz (who wrote "A Hot Time in...

A musical short with Richard Himber and His Orchestra at the center of things.

A one-reel short shot against a nightclub background in which several names from New York City radio programs do a variety of turns. Jack Gilford, a...

Lucky Millinder and His Band are joined by Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Chester Waddington secretly marries society girl Patricia Flynn, a fact that is revealed at a party celebrating her engagement to another suitor. A...