Summary

NEW ORLEANS SUGAR JAZZ MUSICIANS

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Title: NEW ORLEANS SUGAR JAZZ MUSICIANS
File Number: PET-83 1 inch
Color: B W
Type: Outtakes
Description: 08:00:50:24 - 09:29:15:18 B W Silent 1910s New Orleans, Louisiana: harbor, street scenes, lifestyles, industry Then followed by The River (1937), a documentary on the Mississippi and the TVA--see AFP-3A for shotlist Ford Educational Library short Agriculture of the United States--No 57, SUGAR (1925) 1940s outtakes jazz musicians, incl Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, & Art Tatum 08:00:50:24 - 08:01:58:14 B W Silent 1910s New Orleans Harbor Boat POV past ocean liner w steam from smokestacks Battleships in harbor Freighters, steamers, frigates Cranes on loading docks Shipping industry 08:01:58:15 - 08:02:30:24 B W Silent 1910s New Orleans Horse and buggy moving in fast motion down street in front of factory w smokestack PAN trucks & traffic moving in front of neoclassical building Men working in furniture store French Quarter: wrought iron balconies, people walking on street 08:02:30:25 - 08:03:29:28 B W Silent 1910s New Orleans - lifestyles City Park Recreation, lifestyles: people canoe on pond with columned neoclassical building in BG--boating Geese & swans in water Stone footbridge Native American sports: men in caps play version of lacrosse w two sticks The scramble for the ball Palm trees in BG 08:03:30:01 - 08:04:29:05 B W Silent 1910s New Orleans - city life Houses & boats on bayou river Horsedrawn wagon on street in French quarter Wrought iron balconies Streetcar wires between buildings Clotheslines as children play in courtyard Working class neighborhood WS busy city street w pedestrians & streetcars trolleys People on sidewalk Good example of fashion of the era 08:04:30:15 - 08:10:43:24 B W Silent 1910s Animals in zoo Sad, captivity, boredom Storks, spoonbills preen in pond Storks & ducks swim in water Small birds on trees inside aviary Zebra paces in cage Bull cattle in cage grazes Group of bison walk around Storks, spoonbills & ducks, herons Geese Swans feeding in water Polar bears & brown bears in cages Polar bear leans against bars Man feeds teases polar bear through bars Foxes pace in front of cave Small bovids (horned animals) run in cage Deer Moose Foxes Tiger paces in cage 08:10:52:01 - 08:13:50:20 B W Silent 1910s Animals in zoo Sad, captivity, boredom Otter swimming in water in winter, snow on rocks Walks scurries along snowy riverbank Winter Rams sheep in cage HA brown bear & polar bears pace in cages More otter Mountain goats in snow-covered field Yaks, bison 08:13:51:23 - 08:17:42:19 B W Silent 1910s New Orleans, Louisiana Elderly couple on raft on bayou as Tin Lizzie car drives onto it Rundown New Orleans neighborhood, French Quarter Brick building ruins, trees w Spanish moss Ships in harbor Southern Railway warehouse Shipping industry Boats in dry dock Smokestacks Street scenes: pedestrians on city sidewalk, board streetcar Downtown Statues in park Man in antique shop Mansions on St Charles Neo-classical buildings Working class neighborhood EXT school Couple on stoop wave to camera Nuns walk on street in French Quarter 08:17:52:03 - 08:28:23:06 B W Silent 1937 The River--for shotlist see AFP-3A 09:00:50:16 - 09:04:40:15 B W Silent 1920s Sugar documentary with intertitles Louisiana-center of US sugar cane farming Agriculture Field of sugar cane Farmers drive tractors CU hand pointing to sugar cane Horse drawn hand plow Man struggles w recalcitrant horse Black workers gather bushels of sugar cane & throw them into trenches Male & female farm workers hoe in field White overseer on horse Men w machetes harvest grown cane Man carries large stack of cane CU hand twists cane, juice pours out 09:04:40:16 - 09:09:51:04 B W Silent 1920s Sugar: shipping & refining Oxcarts stacked w cane leave field Boat POV of sugar refinery Industry, smokestacks Cranes unload sacks of raw sugar Dockworkers Raw sugar crushed & dissolved in machine Factory workers on assembly line Sugar syrup filtered Steaming pits in factor Tanks of sugar Demonstration of color difference in syrup before & after filtering Worker watches sugar for crystallization Centrifuge machine Drying sugar, storage bins Molds for melting sugar Plates of dried sugar cut into sugar cubes, packed by female workers END 09:10:00:11 - 09:14:02:01 B W Silent 1940s Young Frank Sinatra at microphone speaking & singing, w Navy orchestra in BG (Naval District Coast Guard Band?) WWII, USO shows, military Jazz music Appears to be singing Jerome Kern's The Song is You WS slow ZI Sinatra on stage w band Band claps for Frankie (see MR 267) 09:14:04:24 - 09:18:20:26 B W Sound 1944 (See MR 2027) Duke Ellington in leopard-print robe sits at piano & writes on sheet music Plays song Composing, thinking Plays a little, writes on sheet music, plays again Creative process, artist at work VS covers of Duke's sheet music (Black & Tan Fantasy, Caravan, etc) Jazz music Also on DN-B-338 09:18:20:27 - 09:22:37:18 B W Silent 1940s EXT Three Deuces jazz nightclub advertizing pianist Art Tatum INT club, Tatum playing w musicians Slam Stewart (double bass) & Tiny Grimes (guitar) White patrons at tables listen Stride piano, jazz music Multiple takes CU hands playing piano Sailor & his date smiling, grooving to music (Also on DN-B-338) 09:22:44:16 - 09:29:15:18 B W Silent 1910s-1940s Jazz musicians Ella Fitzgerald scat singing How High the Moon in studio session Double bassist is musician Ray Brown, Fitzgerald's husband Billy Taylor on piano Ella looks nervously off camera Multiple takes Drummer unidentified VS musicians CU record of How High the Moon turning (Also on MR 267) Really good
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