Moving Image:Musical Review

Musical Review #11 [Louis Armstrong Soundie] is a short film released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

A collection of the following short musical clips:

Stereotypical Indians in full headdresses hide behind a shrub and wave each other over until three stand in a line Stereotypical frontier settlers (women in bonnets men in raccoon hats) playing the banjo and dancing a square dance Frontier man playing the banjo stops and looks alarmed -- freezes with his mouth open Two women in bonnets freeze and cower in anticipation Indians in headdresses inspecting a banjo Three men and one woman looking at the camera with fear and expectation, man reassuringly puts his hand on the woman's arm Indian playing a banjo with his foot propped on the knee of a frontier man

"Saucy Chili" sign A puppeteer Close-up of a can-can girl puppet dancing

A range full of cows -- a cowboy on horseback among the cattle A cloud covered sky Two blond cowgirls look at a singing cowboy A fiddler and a guitar player around the singing cowboy with on-lookers

A woman in a sequin gown sitting on a bench singing, band behind her-- a stand up bass, pianist, accordion and trumpet player fellows in suits "Under The Willow Tree (I'm gonna keep waiting for sweet Marie)

"I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" Blues band routine, man singing to woman

Stage show vaudeville act -- four singing men, one in the costume of the "daughter"

A dancing pair on stage, and a Big band, "By The Light Of The Moon"

"I Hear You Knocking But You Can't Come In" people gathered around a man singing behind a white Baby Grand Piano

PA-3143 Musical Review #11

00:00:07:81 - 00:09:05:63 B/W Sound 1940s

           Musical Review #11 [Louis Armstrong Soundie] Miscellaneous
           compilation of musical clips from 1940s "soundies". Excellent Louis
           Armstrong clip. Other clips bizarre, corny pop vocal performances
           of singing cowboys, dancing marionettes, man in farmer's daughter
           drag.  Most shots very campy.

00:00:07:81 - 00:01:11:20 B/W Sound 1940s

           Man in stereotypical American Indian costume w/ headdress pops up
           from behind shrub & waves two other Indians over. Stereotypical
           frontier settlers (women in bonnets, men in raccoon hats) sing &
           dance to the song "Camptown Races." Indian takes banjo from white
           man. Settlers look on in fear. Indian  inspects banjo carefully &
           begins to play fast solo to "O Susanna". Women smile & settlers
           happily watch him play. Tremendous overacting, Humor.

00:01:17:90 - 00:02:16:41 B/W Sound 1940s

           Saucy Chili logo. Male puppeteer on stage platform controls female
           marionette in Carmen Miranda costume w/ feathered headdress as she
           dances on miniature ballroom set to a Latin rumba beat. Campy,
           Weird.

00:02:21:53 - 00:03:19:51 B/W Sound 1940s

           Music: partial clip of Western song. WS cattle grazing on ranch.
           Rancher rides on horse through herd of cows. Cloud-covered sky. MS
           singing cowboy Jerry Cooper performs sentimental song "Where the
           Mountains Meet the Sky" on stage ranch set w/ fiddler, guitarist &
           two women in cowboy hats & Western clothes.

00:03:25:59 - 00:04:35:15 B/W Sound 1940s

           Pop vocal clip. Fade In: pop swing jazz combo w/ upright bass,
           guitar in dinner jackets playing on garden patio stage set. Female
           singer in evening gown sits on bench to sing happy song - "Under
           The Willow Tree."

00:04:40:75 - 00:05:54:95 B/W Sound 1940s

           WS Louis Armstrong & Orchestra perform on bandstand- musical clip-
           "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal You)." Armstrong,
           wearing pinstriped suit, plays trumpet & sings joke-accusingly to
           obese woman (probably Velma Middleton). Guitarist Lawrence Lucie
           comforts her. She stands & begins to dance during his solo.

00:05:59:30 - 00:07:04:15 B/W Sound 1940s

           Western cabin stage set. Campy parody of 1890s-era MELODRAMA. Evil
           mustachioed man sings in baritone to man in farmer costume & man in
           little girl drag (bonnet, dress) as his daughter. Man / villain
           clutches mortgage papers & sings threatening song. He tries to take
           doll from man in girl drag & she hits him with it. Man in sheriff
           costume joins them as they finish song. Song is "Little Nell."
           Overacting.

00:07:09:65 - 00:08:07:71 B/W Sound 1944

           Couple dances (out-of-sync) on stage in front of department store
           window set. Man very gay. OS music: woman (Liza Morrow) sings pop
           vocal song. CAM cuts to singer Liza Morrow & band performing on
           bandstand. Song is "Dance With A Dolly (With A Hole In Her
           Stocking)" played by George Paxton & his Orchestra. Drummer is Roy
           Harte, and tenor sax solo is by Abraham "Boomie" Richmond.

00:08:13:55 - 00:09:05:63 B/W Sound 1940s

           Musical clip of singer Gene Austin plays white baby grand piano on
           stage drugstore set. Young men & women sit at counter & join around
           him for smooth pop song - "I Hear You Knockin' But You Can't Come

In." Audience knocks on counter & piano in time with their fists.

Musical Review #11 [Louis Armstrong Soundie]
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Running time	9:06
Language	English

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