Movies

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...

Louis Jordan, with his band, sings and performs the title song, "Caldonia,", and "Honey Child," "Tillie" and 'Buzz Me", wowing the jitter-buggers,...

Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.

Mantan Moreland hosts a series of filmed song, dance and band numbers by various artists, mostly released previously as individual "soundies".

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.

Actor, writer, director and activist Ossie Davis narrates this look at the history of race films, those produced from the 1920s-50s catered to a...

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house...

Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the...

Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films...

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon...

Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.

A film by Chris Robinson.

Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Walking with My Honey".

"Festival of Hearts" is the name of the new pop music show by popular DJ Camillo. He came up with the idea by chance. Marcel, a young bank employee,...

Compilation reel of 16mm color home movies of Cab Calloway and his family in Long Island, New York at Easter. The film also has footage of Calloway's...

Cab Calloway sings "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya".

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.