- Title: VM-258
- Summary: DE FOREST PHONOFILMS (PT.2): EARLIEST EXAMPLES OF SOUND ON FILM AS PRODUCED BY PIONEER LEE DEFOREST PHONOFILMS 1924-1927 IN NEW YORK. EARLY VAUDEVILLE PERFORMERS, JAZZ BANDS & SOUND TESTS.
- Description:00:00:20 - "THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT" BARBER & JACKSON, OLD VAUDEVILLE ACT OF MISMATCHED ODD COUPLE OF TALL MAN & SHORT WOMAN 00:03:37 - BARBER & JACKSON: SLEEP LITTLE SCALLYWAG (live) 00:07:59 - BARBER & JACKSON: I WILL LOVE YOU MORE AT 84 (live) 00:09:26 - MISMATCHED COUPLE DANCE 00:09:56 - CHARLES ROSS TAGGEART: THE OLD COUNTRY FIDDLER (live) (at the singing school) 00:13:28 - DE FOREST SOUND TESTS: GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG BARKING 00:14:05 - BIPLANE FLYING AROUND AIRFIELD 00:15:17 - STEAM TRAIN PULLING INTO STATION 00:15:41 - TRAIN PULLS OUT OF STATION. SNOW ON GROUND 00:16:12 - FANNY WARD: FATHER TIME (live) 00:19:01 - THE FOUR BACHELORS: WHEN THE RED, RED ROBIN (live) 00:20:55 - FOUR BACHELORS: SWEET & LOW (live) 00:23:21 - REPEAT OF FOUR BACHELORS SINGING BY FIREPLACE 00:27:45 - GELAL TELATA: DANNY BOY (live) 00:29:56 - FEIN & DUNN: SWEET BY & BY (live) 00:31:39 - GELAL TELATA: DANNY BOY (live) 00:32:04 - WEBER & FIELDS VAUDEVILLE DIALOGUE 00:34:11 - THE MEAL HOUND SKIT WOMAN & MAN STAND OUTSIDE DISCUSSING BROADWAY. THEN GO INSIDE & TALK IN LIVING ROOM 00:49:19 - "A NIGHT IN DIXIE" CLIPS. EXTREMELY EARLY PLANTATION CLUB REVIEW 00:49:35 - SILENT JOHNNY HUDGINS PERFORMS. BLACK MAN IN BLACKFACE 00:52:18 - ABBY MITCHELL: SWANEE RIVER (live) 00:54:48 - GRAND FINALE OF "A NIGHT IN DIXIE" WITH CHORUS LINE OF TAP DANCERS WHILE 1920s BLACK JAZZ PLAYS. GENUINE BLACK VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINERS IN REVUE FROM THE CLUB ALABAM IN HARLEM early black CHITLIN CIRCUIT OR TOBA BLACK VAUDEVILLE FOOTAGE. THE FIRST WITH SOUND T.O.B.A. 00:57:58 - RADIO SHOW EMCEE PHIL BAKER. OLD VAUDEVILLE ACT ABOUT RADIO AUDITIONS. 00:58:45 - FAT TELEGRAM ENTERS WITH TELEGRAM 00:59:53 - VIOLINST, PROFESSOR PIZZICATO PLAYS TO MICROPHONE AS MC PLAYS PIANO 01:01:19 - YOUNG, FAT TELEGRAM BOY BRINGS IN TELEGRAM 01:02:16 - DEWDROP THE FAIRY READS STORY FOR KIDS TO RADIO MICROPHONE 01:04:17 - SHORT SKIT ABOUT MAN WHO LOSES MONEY ON WALL STREET. 01:04:18 - WIFE ENTERS MAN'S BEDROOM & ASKS HIM WHAT'S WRONG. CONSOLES HUSBAND 01:05:31 - SAD MAN IN BED THROWS DOWN LUCKY HORSESHOW 01:05:41 - SAD WOMAN WALKS OVER TO WINDOW & SULKS 01:05:45 - NEIGHBOR ACROSS THE WAY SEES SAD WOMAN & OPENS HER WINDOW TO SEE WHAT'S WRONG 01:05:57 - SAD WOMAN OPENS WINDOW TO GOSSIP WITH NEIGHBOR ACROSS OPEN WINDOWS IN BUILDING. OLDER WOMAN LOOKS AROUND WHENEVER TO MAKE SURE NO ONE IS LISTENING 01:08:08 - PRETTY WIFE SHUTS WINDOW. PICKS UP PHONE BOOK & MAKES ANXIOUS TELEPHONE CALL 01:08:13 - WOMAN LEANING OUT OF WINDOW GETS TRAPPED AS WINDOW FALLS CLOSED ON HER 01:08:22 - MAN IN PHONE BOOTH, PUTS COIN INTO SLOT & GIVES OPERATOR NUMBER 01:08:34 - MAN SLEEPING IN BED WAKES UP, ANSWERS RINGING TELEPHONE. 01:08:53 - MAN ON TWO-PIECE PUBLIC PHONE CLEARS OUT HIS EARS 01:09:03 - ANGRY MAN ON PHONE WHILE IN BED 01:09:22 - MAN MAKING PHONE CALL IN TELEPHONE BOOTH 01:09:30 - HAPPY IN MAN GETS OUT OF BED WHILE TALKING ON TELEPHONE. SOUND BYTE AS HE HANGS UP. "BYE, I'LL CALL YOU BACK LATER" 01:10:04 - EXCITED MAN CALLS HIS WIFE IN ROOM TO TELL HER GOOD NEWS 01:10:38 - WIFE TELLS HUSBAND BAD NEWS 01:11:54 - MAN SITS ON BED WITH WIFE & NERVOUSLY MAKES TELEPHONE CALL 01:12:37 - BUSINESSMAN AT DESK ANSWERS OLD-FASHIONED TWO PIECE TELEPHONE 01:13:24 - STOCK BROKER CALLS OVER BOY. WRITES NOTES ON PAPER 01:13:31 - EXCITED MAN ON HIS KNEES TALKING ON TELEPHONE 01:14:18 - PISSED OFF MAN ROLLS UP HIS SLEEVES & CHASES COUPLE OUT OF ROOM 01:14:27 - MAN KISSES LUCKY HORSESHOE 01:14:29 - HAPPY COUPLE HUG
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1924
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-258