The call of the jitterbug, Green Room Productions ; directed by Jesper Sorensen, Vibeke Winding, and Tana Ross
Type
Label
The call of the jitterbug, Green Room Productions ; directed by Jesper Sorensen, Vibeke Winding, and Tana Ross
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
The call of the jitterbug
Medium
electronic resource
Oclc number
780480097
Responsibility statement
Green Room Productions ; directed by Jesper Sorensen, Vibeke Winding, and Tana Ross
Runtime
36
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
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Filmakers Library, inc
- Gibson, Sandra
- Sorensen, Jesper
- Basie, Count, 1904-1984
- Batiuchok, Margaret
- Webb, Chick
- Hines, Earl, 1903-1983
- Jackson, Delilah
- James, Harry, 1916-1983
- Ross, Tana
- Dillard, Bill
- Green Room Productions
- Manning, Frankie
- Mama Lu Parks' Traditional Jazz Dance Company
- Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986
- Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994
- Winding, Vibeke
- Miller, Norma, 1919-
- Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
- Sullivan, Sugar
- Parks, Mama Lu
- Lloyd, George
Subject
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor22
- Filmakers Library, inc
- Gibson, Sandra
- Sorensen, Jesper
- Basie, Count, 1904-1984
- Batiuchok, Margaret
- Webb, Chick
- Hines, Earl, 1903-1983
- Jackson, Delilah
- James, Harry, 1916-1983
- Ross, Tana
- Dillard, Bill
- Green Room Productions
- Manning, Frankie
- Mama Lu Parks' Traditional Jazz Dance Company
- Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986
- Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994
- Winding, Vibeke
- Miller, Norma, 1919-
- Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
- Sullivan, Sugar
- Parks, Mama Lu
- Lloyd, George
- Subject8
- Mapped to1