Directing
Soundie featuring The Chanticleers singing "Babbling Bess." Also starring Francine Everett (as Babbling Bess) and Mable Lee (Dancer).
Sleeping dancers and musicians are woken up by a cheerful melody and start dancing and playing.
Compilation film of various African-American performers and acts.
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra perform "Southern Scandal."
An all-black musical featuring the talent of funnyman Mantan Moreland.
Louis Jordan, with his band, sings and performs the title song, "Caldonia,", and "Honey Child," "Tillie" and 'Buzz Me", wowing the jitter-buggers, zoot suits and bobby-soxers of the mid-1940s, all built around a wisp of a plot dealing with the difficulties of production in Harlem.
The Jubalaires perform "Brother Bill".
Old-time musical star Schyler Jarvis, now wealthy, is dying; his last act is a visionary plan for the future happiness of his son, swing bandleader Louis Jarvis, and Honey Carter, daughter of his long-lost love. But crooked lawyer Talbot has a nefarious scheme to get his hands on the Jarvis money...and it doesn't include any happiness for Louis and Honey. Plenty of swing from Louis Jordan's Tympany Five.
In a gym, a girl is pulling some pulleys, to gain arm strength, while three men and three girls watch a judo demonstration in the middle of the room. A girl wearing a sweater and shorts applies a succession of holds to a young man in a sleeveless undershirt and a black trunks: over the shoulder projection, arm lock, over the hip projection, sideways headlock and knee to the face, sacrifice fall followed by school-girl pin, kidney punching followed by a groin kick, sideways kick to the knee and arm-lock, eye-gouge and kick to the ribs, attack to both legs with arms and legs, arm-lock and tripping followed by a leg blow to the throat, disarming a knife attack from above, and then an up-thrust with the knife, disarming a revolver menace from the back, usage of a leather belt to strangle and throw an attacker, usage of hair holds for control and throw of the opponent, and KO punching. The man simulates different forms of attack and stands gamely every time - except the last.
Harold Richards and Jeanne Claire sing "Sweet Leilani".
A little Novelty film made in 1945 featuring the Jansleys - most soundies were filmed indoors but not this one. Acrobats showing off some tricks.
A Soundie with Pat Flowers's Scotch Boogie.
A "Soundie" short subject featuring Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio performing the song "Shy Guy"
Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".
Meritta Moore and her group dance.
Soundie featuring Mable Lee and Stephin Fetchit.
A musical answer to “Open the Door, Richard.” A lazy man struggles to get out of bed to answer the door, with musical accompaniment.
Mable Lee performs "Cats Can't Dance" along with Deryck Sampson's Band.
Soundie with a dance performance from Jayne Dodge & Roye Dodge.
Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five and their Tillie.
