Slideshow
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Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake -
Nina Mae McKinney -
Ethel Waters and Sammy Davis Jr.
PREVIOUSLY PLAYED
AN ALL-COLORED VITAPHONE SHOW
6:20
Monday, May 20
Presented by Ina Archer
Artist and archivist Ina Archer presents early sound shorts starring Black artists, mostly filmed at Brooklyn’s Vitaphone studios, including Yamercraw: A Negro Rhapsody (1929); An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), with the Nicholas Brothers; Gjon Mili’s jazz film masterpiece Jammin’ the Blues (1944); and Duke Ellington, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake, Nina Mae McKinney, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, and many more. Dedicated to Ron Hutchinson (see A TRIBUTE TO RON HUTCHINSON on May 28.)