RCM Productions

Soundie featuring The Chanticleers singing "Babbling Bess." Also starring Francine Everett (as Babbling Bess) and Mable Lee (Dancer).

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White

Princess Aloha & Andy Iona's Orchestra in Hilo Hattie.

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

Musical short with divers Jeanne Fairbrother, Steve Acardi and Tony Zukas with music by Jimmie Wallington.

Louis Armstrong and his Sleepy Time Down South.

Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."

Nat 'King' Cole & Ida James wonders "Who's Been Eating My Porridge?"

Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.

Moonlight Becomes You, Eddy Howard.

Redd Harper and his Minnie the Mermaid.

Charles Dorn with the novelty number My Little Grass Shack.

Soundie featuring June Richmond (vocals) and Roy Milton performing "Hey Lawdy Mama."

Soundie with Gael Amber singing and few couples dancing.

The Terry Twins with Jerry Browne & His Orchestra perform "Chiquita Banana."

Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones".

The Bronco Busters perform "Silver Spurs."

A comic short featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers.

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any movie with an all-black cast, intended primarily for distribution in black neighbourhoods at a time when many American cinemas were segregated.) The song-and-dance performer here is none other than the great Bill Robinson.

Vanita Smythe sings "Back Door Man."