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Birth of Swing

Date released

1937

Series name

The March of Time 2nd Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

352513

Story no

3 / 3

The March of Time synopsis: Everyone has heard of "swing". Its enthusiasts range from high-browed intellectuals to the messenger boys in the streets, and many are the heated arguments as to what it is and...

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Spirit Moves, The: A History of Black Social Dance on Film, 1900-1986 (2010)

Director

Mura Dehn

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 120 minutes), $165.00

This 3-part documentary traces the evolution of African American dance in urban America. It was recorded and created over a period of thirty years by Mura Dehn, a European filmmaker. Shown with their...

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Shakespeare and All That Jazz (1964 Audio)

Shakespeare set to music by John Dankworth and performed by Cleo Laine. Tracks are: Compleat Works, Sigh No More, Ladies, Fear No More, Witches, Fair and Foul, Shall I Compare Thee, Blow, Blow Thou Winter...

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New British Library Sounds website

Date

28 Feb 2012, 11:33

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

Post

The British Library has launched its Sounds website http://sounds.bl.uk The new website allows users to listen for free to 50,000 tracks of music, spoken words and environmental sounds. Listeners at...

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JAZZ

Date released

Jan 1956

Series name

Mining Review 9th Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

345901

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: the third annual Miner’s Jazz Band festival at Llandilo, South Wales NCB Commentary - The quiet of the little Carmarthenshire village of Llandilo is disturbed for one of its big afternoons of...

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Drum Major

Date released

Feb 1970

Series name

Mining Review 23rd Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

346479

Story no

3 / 4

NoS synopsis: 15-year-old Elizabeth Blakey, champion drum major of the South Hetton Royal Scots Juvenile Jazz Band

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(Untitled record)

Date released

1956

Series name

Mining Review Composite Editions

Issue no

CMR10

NoS ID

346573

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: A film giving composite impressions of various recreational activities, a barn dance, jazz band and funfair; football; skittles in the skittle alley; lake fishing; golf; archery; ice hockey;...

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BAND FEVER

Date released

Sep 1978

Series name

Review 32nd Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

346743

Story no

1 / 1

NCB synopsis: About the Juvenile Jazz Bands operating and flourishing in the region of the Midlands coalfields, since the depression years of the 1930s.

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DOWNBEAT

Date released

Mar 1956

Series name

Mining Review 9th Year

Issue no

7

NoS ID

345908

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: jazz enthusiasts at a Kent colliery club. NCB Commentary - It’s Sunday Afternoon at Aylesham Institute. Men of Snowdon Colliery sit and listen to the band, a local combination this, the...

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Shakespeare was Right (1930 Film)

Vitaphone short. Shakespeare is brought to trial in the modern day to defend his plays against a charge of dullness. His characters come to life in the Jazz Age to show they belong there, with snappy...

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