Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs |
| Original title | Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1923 |
| length | 6:50 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lee De Forest |
| production | Lee De Forest |
| camera | Lee De Forest |
| occupation | |
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs is a 1923 musical short film.
background
Noble Sissle and James Hubert Blake Sing Snappy Songs (the original title was Sissle and Blake ; the alternative title (Sissle and Blake's) Snappy Songs ) is one of the early experiments with the new medium of sound film , which Lee De Forest carried out in the early 1920s and his team were produced, u. a. with musicians like Ben Bernie ( Ben Bernie and All the Lads 1925), Eddie Cantor ( A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor ), Phil Baker and the vaudeville duo Weber and Fields. The then popular songwriters and vaudeville actors Noble Sissle (vocals) and Eubie Blake (piano, vocals) appeared in the music film . The film was one of the first appearances of African American musicians in a sound film and was premiered on April 15, 1923 with other music films of the DeForest Phonofilm in the Rivoli Theater in New York.
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake first performed parts of the songs "Sons of Old Black Joe" (probably a variant of the song "Old Black Joe" by Stephen Foster ) and "My Swanee Home" (Norman J. Vause, Robert Duryea), then in the second part "Affectionate Dan" (Sissle / Blake, one of her former theme songs ) and "All God 'Chillun Got Shoes", a variation of the Spirituals "All God's Chillun Got Wings". The film was produced using the Phonofilm system invented by Lee DeForest in 1920.
De Forest shot the film with a permanently installed camera which is aimed at the grand piano where Eubie Blake is sitting on the piano stool in the first part; Noble Sissle to his left. In the second part, Sissle stands on the right in front of the piano.
Track list
- Sons of Old Black Joe [0: 00-1: 14]
- My Swanee Home [1: 15-2: 55]
- Affectionate Dan [2: 56-5: 24]
- All God 'Chillun Got Shoes [5: 25–6: 50]
Web links
- Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Jazz on Film and Rebecca D. Clear: Video in the Library of Congress . 1993, p. 117.
- ^ A b Tim Brooks: Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 . 2004, p. 381.
- ^ Edwin M. Bradley: The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 . 2005, p. 393
- ↑ David Lee Smith: Hoosiers in Hollywood . 2006, page 465.