The Band Beautiful is a Vitaphone music short which dates back to 1928. It features The Ingenues, an all-girl jazz band based in Chicago. In this clip, they break out the banjos and perform their version of “Chasing the Blues...
St. Louis Blues is a two reel short film and stars female blues singer Bessie Smith. This sound clip features Smith in an African-American speakeasy of the prohibition era singing the W. C. Handy standard, “St. Louis Blues”. Bessie Smith was one of the...
Watch as Eddie Cantor sings “The Dumber They Are, the Better I Like ‘Em,” and “Oh, Gee, Georgie”. This short was shown at the Rivoli Theater in New York City in April,...
