2010 Vitaphone Program
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Every year Ron Hutchinson — co-founder of The Vitaphone Project — presents a largely previously unseen collection of early sound jazz and vaudeville short subjects.
4:30 PM
- Minnie The Moocher – Paramount Talkartoon 1932
- Tal Henry & His North Carolinians – Vitaphone 1929
- MAMMY Vitaphone Trailer – WB 1930
- MAMMY Technicolor Excerpts – WB 1930
- Harold Arlen – Paramount Pictorial 1933
- Don Bestor & His Orchestra – Paramount 1936
- Grace Johnston & Her Indiana Five – Vitaphone 1929
- Wille, West & McGinty in “Plastered” – Paramount 1930
- Charles Ahearn & His Millionaires – Vitaphone 1934
- BRITISH PATHETONE 1930 – 36 Excerpts
a) Billy Cotton & His Band
b) Stroh Violin Duo
c) Jack Payne Band
d) Forsythe, Seaman & Farrell
e) Roy Fox & His Orchestra
f) Mario DiPietro & His Band
g) Al Bowlly - MEET THE BOYFRIEND – Paramount 1930 – Lillian Roth
- Venuti & Lang opening music & background
8:00 PM
- The Five Locust Sisters – MGM Movietone 1928
- “Rambling Round Radio Row” – Vitaphone 1934
- The Audition – Vitaphone 1932 Hannah Williams
- “Getting A Ticket” – Paramount 1930 Eddie Cantor
- Excerpt from “Flying High” MGM 1931
- Excerpt from “Myrt & Marge” Univ. 1934 Ted Healy / Stooges
- “The Wishing Stone” – Dave Apollon & Orch. Vitaphone 1935
- Excerpt from “Paramount On Parade” – 1930
- BRITISH PATHETONE 1930 – 40 Excerpts
a) The Radio Three
b) Pauline Ward, tap dancer
c) Syd Milward & The Nitwits
d) Jack Hylton’s Band
e) Harry Roy & His Band
f) Sophie Tucker
g) Elsie Carlisle
h) Joe Loss & His Band
i) The Maestro Singers
j) Al Bowlly
k) Max & Harry Nesbitt
l) The Jesters – Radio imitators
m) George Erlich’s Orchestra - STARS OF HARLEM
a) Sissle & Blake – DeForest Phonofilm 1923
b) Ethel Waters – “On With The Show” – Vitaphone 1929
c) Nina Mae McKinney – “Hallelujah” MGM 1929 - Excerpt from “They Learned About Women” MGM – 1929
- Van & Schenck, Nina Mae McKinney – “Harlem Madness”