Sweet 16mm: Jazz Rarities and Cartoons
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Run Time: 100 min. Format: 16mm Film
Starring: Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller
Calling all hep cats! We’ve got a rare night of 16mm antique jazz shorts and cartoons that’s a treat for your eyes and your ears. This one-of-a-kind program features antique musical Soundies and Vitaphone shorts from the 1930s and 1940s with performances from tons of jazz greats like Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford, Cootie Williams, and Carlos Molina as well as a handful of jazzy cartoons to animate the night. From the raw and expressive, to the visually and viscerally stunning, to the ridiculously entertaining, you won’t want to miss this program of obscurities all on 16mm film.