SYMPHONY IN BLACK features a brief vocal by a 19-year-old newcomer who was to become one of the greatest jazz legends of her time, Billie Holiday, and a performance of Duke Ellington’s jazz composition along symphonic lines. Ellington plays his symphonic jazz piece, “A Rhapsody of Negro Life,” with his orchestra against slice-of-life background scenes.
A jazz trumpeter tries to woo a fellow musician in mourning for her dead lover, and sets up a band in an attempt to bring them closer together. Covering a quarter-century of American “syncopated” music (ragtime, jazz, swing, blues, and boogie boogie), Syncopation features music from the turn of t...
"Entrancing and beautiful" - The New York Times
Newly Restored! One of the most imaginative of all silent movies, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD is a dazzling Arabian Nights adventure fantasy. Featuring silent film score maestro Carl Davis conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra, performing a magnificent sco...
Gracie is a nanny taking a baby through the park when she stops to visit with street cleaner George. "Where were you born?" "In a hospital." "Oh, were you sick?" "No, I wanted to be near my mother."
