{image via the Hi De Ho Blog}
Well, all good things must come to an end (for now) so please come thru and join us for the final HOME TO HARLRM program!
Thursday, June 30 at 7:30PM Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Lenox Ave.
Home to Harlem!
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You may SMASH YOUR BAGGAGE (1932) when HARLEM BOUND (1935) but once there, you’ll see a SYMPHONY IN BLACK-Duke Ellington’s Rhapsody of Negro Life (1935) and you may get invited to CAB CALLOWAY’S JITTERBUG PARTY (1935) before you return to your dream home in Sugar Hill and tune in to the Nicholas Brothers dancing on the radio in THE BLACK NETWORK (1936)!
🎶Smash Your Baggage
Roy Mack, 1932, 10 min. 16mm
A Vitaphone short-subject featuring the Small's Paradise Entertainers. A group of redcaps in a train station perform musical numbers to raise money for an ailing member of their group.
16mm print preserved by The Library of Congress
🎶Harlem Bound
Milton Schwarzwald, 1935, 17 min. Digital
A newly preserved Mentone musical short featuring the Cotton Club Chorines in a setting that replicates the historical actuality of white club patrons watching Black performers.
Featuring Buck and Bubbles; lesser-known, soprano Avis Andrews: “Harlem’s silver-voiced delineator of songs” and MC Norman Astwood, who acted in many Black cast dramas of the era.
Learn more about Avis Andrews and her work with Cab Calloway at the Gorgeous and Comprehensive Hi De Ho Blog!
🎶Cab Calloway’s Jitterbug Party
Fred Waller 1935 8 min
Broadcasting from Harlem’s Cotton Club “A Musical Description of Darkest Harlem” and a late night club crawl through Harlem hotspots with Cab and his pals.
🎶Symphony in Black — A Rhapsody of Negro Life
Fred Waller, 1935, 10 min. 16mm
Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday in a musical short. Numbers include: "The Laborers," " A Triangle" (Dance–Jealousy–Big city blues), "A Hymn of sorrow," and "Harlem Rhythm." Featuring famed, undulating, Harlem nightclub dancer Earl “Snakehips” Tucker.
16mm print courtesy of The NYPL Performing Arts Library Reserve Film & Video Collection
🎶The Black Network
Roy Mack 1936 20 min. Digital
A talent packed Vitaphone Variety broadcasting to Harlem. Will romantic partners and stars of the Black Network, Nina Mae (Nina Mae McKinney) and the Harlem Gondolier (Babe Wallace) find their dream home in Harlem’s Sugar Hill neighborhood?
See you there!
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"Home to Harlem" presents Harlem through an archival lens as both an actual home for Black citizens and families and as a location in the popular imagination of African Americans, by exploring the multiple intersections of documentary, amateur films, home movies, musical shorts, nontheatrical materials, family archives and the preservation of cultural artifacts of the community.
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