AFRICAN AMERICAN SOUNDIES COMPILATION: NOBLE SISSLE, DON REDMAN, FATS WALLER (1932 1941) XD44604

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films Visit Visit our website This compilation reel of two early 1930s Vitaphone Melody Master musical featurettes and two 1941 soundies features an array of underrepresented black talent in short subjects that offer glimpses of performing talents Noble Sissle, Don Redman, Fats Waller and others (TRT: 27:34). 1) Vitaphone Presents Noble Sissle Band in Thats The Spirit, with Cora La Reed, the Washboard Serenaders, Miller Moreland, Directed by Roy Mack, Photography by E. B. DuPar, 1932. Comedic actors Flournoy Miller and Mantan Moreland appear as night watchmen for a pawnshop, with Miller in blackface, an offensive tradition of theatrical makeup used primarily (but not exclusively) by nonblack performers to caricature black people (0:28). Miller was known for scripting the Broadway hit Shuffle Along which featured the music of Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake. Moreland got his start as M