Streaming video

Title The call of the jitterbug / Green Room Productions ; directed by Jesper Sorensen, Vibeke Winding, and Tana Ross
Published New York, NY : Filmakers Library, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (36 min.)
Series Dance in video.
Summary Documentary on the jitterbug and lindy hop, a dance craze that swept the nation beginning in Harlem in the 1930s. Delilah Jackson, Mama Lu Parks, George Lloyd, Sugar Sullivan-Niles, Frank Manning, Sandra Gibson, and musicians Bill Dillard and Dizzy Gillespie also reminisce about dancing at the Savoy Ballroom and other popular clubs, which are seen in historical film footage. Parks and Manning are shown teaching the dance, which continues to be performed in clubs and on stage
Notes Previously released on DVD
Credits Music performed by Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, The Swing Now Trio, Cab Calloway, Jimmy Lunceford, Earl Hines, Chick Webb, Harry James
Performer Appearances by Margret Batiuchok, Bill Dillard, Sandra Gibson, Dizzy Gillespie, Delilah Jackson, George Lloyd, Frank Manning, Norma Miller, Mama Lu Parks
Subject Savoy Ballroom (Harlem, New York, N.Y.) -- History
Savoy Ballroom (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
African American dance -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Boogie woogie (Music)
Dance -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Jitterbug (Dance)
Lindy (Dance)
Swing (Dance)
African American dance
African Americans -- Social life and customs
Boogie woogie (Music)
Dance
Jitterbug (Dance)
Lindy (Dance)
Swing (Dance)
United States
Genre/Form History
Nonfiction films
Short films
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Courts métrages.
Form Streaming video
Author Basie, Count, 1904-1984.
Batiuchok, Margaret.
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994.
Dillard, Bill.
Gibson, Sandra.
Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986
Hines, Earl, 1903-1983.
Jackson, Delilah.
James, Harry, 1916-1983.
Lloyd, George.
Manning, Frankie.
Miller, Norma, 1919-2019.
Parks, Mama Lu.
Ross, Tana.
Sorensen, Jesper.
Sullivan, Sugar.
Webb, Chick.
Winding, Vibeke.
Filmakers Library, inc.
Green Room Productions.
Mama Lu Parks' Traditional Jazz Dance Company