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Information
- Year
- 1959
- Runtime
- 34 min.
- Director
- Edward Bland
- Genres
- Music, Documentary, Short
- Rating *
- 6.2
- Votes *
- 144
- Checks
- 262
- Favs
- 5
- Dislikes
- 10
- Favs/checks
- 1.9% (1:52)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Dr No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNv5l8KuoZw
previous link's dead
This one might work for some time 5 years 3 months ago -
Laydback
I'm pretty sure this film holds the record for excessive use of the word, "Negro". 13 years 1 month ago -
anthemforadoomed
Truly depressing comments here. Other than the dated terminology, the film is beautiful, perfect, and unquestionably correct. Any music historian will tell you that Black American musicians merged the soul and melody of blues with the compositional approach of classical music to create jazz in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There's no Beatles without BB King and there's no Benny Goodman without Scott Joplin or Jelly Roll Morton. Without the unique experience of being Black in America there would be no jazz and no rock n roll. 1 year 3 months ago
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This movie ranks #174 in Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
Amos Vogel's Film as a S…
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This movie ranks #557 in Library of Congress's National Film Registry
Library of Congress's Na…
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