Here's a clip from the movie "Stormy Weather" (1943) featuring Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing "Jumpin Jive". After awhile they let the Nicholas Brothers jump in and lend their feet to the action.
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One of the best of the Tom and Jerry series produced in the early 1930s by the Van Beuren studio. Features some great gags and musical selections including "Margie" and "Doin the New Low Down". Music sychronization by Gene Rodemich.
Note that this film is available from the internet archives.
This is an early Fleischer cartoon from 1930 starring Bimbo and featuring the character who would soon become Betty Boop.
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This is a film clip from "The Road To Hollywood" showing Bing Crosby singing "Just One More Chance" and "I Surrender Dear". These were originally part of some comedy shorts produced by Mack Sennett in the early 1930s.
Here's a rare old cartoon from 1931 (or maybe a little earlier) which was produced by Ted Eshbaugh in his small (and ultimately unsuccessful)Califor nia-based studio. The original was an early two-strip color cartoon but all existing copies I've seen are only b&w.
From "The Road To Hollywood" but originally from a Mack Sennett short, this film shows Bing crooning "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" to a group of Indians in Arizona. Afterwards the men take a dislike to Bing and chase him away.
A Van Beuren film featuring Tom and Jerry in which the duo are a pair of policemen (working the graveyard shift?) who are sent to investigate a stolen mummy. Their search leads them into underground world full of strange characters. The music features renditions of "The Cop on the Beat The Man in the Moon and Me" and "Sing (It's Good For You)". Bonnie Poe provides the voice of the singing mummy.
Early Bosko film from WB featuring plenty of gags involving the trees and animals he meets in the forrest. Directed by Harman-Ising and drawn by Friz Freleng. The soundtrack includes tunes from the era including "Trees" "Walking My Baby Back Home" and "Dancing With Tears in My Eyes".
A lively, musical b&w cartoon from 1934. Back then stores were closed on Sundays and the plot is about the inventory coming to life while the humans are away.
BTW, anyone want a popcorn ball?
If you like the music in this clip you might check out
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Early animated Oz story by the Ted Eshbaugh studio from 1933 and featuring music by Carl Stalling. It was intended to be the first in a series of Oz cartoons but from what I understand it was never released theatrically because of copyright disputes and the project died.
Here's a little clip of Ginger Rogers giving her best in a scene which was filmed for the movie Roxie Hart but which was not included in the final version of the film.
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Here's another tribute video featuring some samples of great performances by one of my favorite silent film era stars and a real pioneer in the industry: Luke the dog. Luke appeared in a number of early silent comedies due to the fact that his owners - Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle and his wife Minta Durfee - both worked at the Keystone Studio.
The music is "Aw You Dog!" performed by Cab Calloway.
This clip comes from a 1932 Mack Sennett two-reel comedy starring Bing Crosby called "Dream House". It's time for some good old slapstick action with no crooning by Bing in this film - he's a bit busy trying to get away from a lion.
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![Eshbaugh\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/4AUiwnj5KrY/2.jpg "Eshbaugh\")
