New Orleans, the Crescent City - 1930s newsreel

Newsreel documentary from the 1920's with photography and animations illustrating old New Orleans, the Crescent City, at work and at play.

Duelling oaks. Influences of colonial France and Spain. Iron grille work. The old townhouses surrounding open courts.

New Orleans, the industrial city, where ports and depot junctions distribute throughout, and out from, the heart of America.

Culture shipped to & from the world.

And, of course, Mardi Gras, Jazz age style.

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Marijuana aka "Marihuana!" - 1930's

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After all, "The way to a man's heart is through his coffee."
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Lady Life Guards - 1930's

Though it's now Fall, Summer is just a click away with our next featurette, Lady Life Guards, produced during the 1930's.

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Foldin' Bed - Whistler & His Jug Band ca. 1930

Whistler & His Jug Band came up out of Louisville, Kentucky, and became the first recorded jug band, according to R Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country. They recorded at least twenty-one songs between 1924 and 1931. The names of the musicians remain unknown.

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Esso Extra

"Everyone likes that little something extra …

A dozen rolls and the baker tosses in an extra one to make it a baker’s dozen.

The butcher throws in an extra bone for the bow wow.

Every locality has a different name for it.

Way down in east in New England they call it 'something to boot.'

In the Deep South they call it 'lanya'
At your neighborhood service station they call it Esso."

AKA Exxon.

And the little “something extra” today, in 2007?

The exorbitant price of gasoline, while the oil cartels make record profits.

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Bill Powers - Caroline

In this re-discovered clip, the classically trained Bill Powers sings an operatic rendition of the song Caroline. A performer with with few if any informative references online, he is accompanied by the similarly under-appreciated member of the Brown Sisters on piano.

A nice complement to the Brown Sisters.

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Music: A Jazz Etude - Serendipitously Surreal

In this serendipitously surreal short "A Jazz Etude," tap dance extrordinaire Billy Burt dances up a storm in top hat, tuxedo tail and cane.

Is he floating?

And that screwy soundtrack ... a mishmash of 'Flight of the Bumblebee,' ragtime fills, and 1930's jazz cliches, is remeniscent of Carl Stalling or Raymond Scott.

Still, I doubt they ever arranged any composition to include a single piano accompanied by 4 double-basses and tap dancer.

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Music: I Ain't Got Nobody - Mills Brothers

An authentic, rare classic version of the standard "I Ain't Got Nobody," sung by the Mills Brothers, shot in the early 1930's.

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Burlesque / Drugs: Marijuana aka "Marihuana!"

A trailer for a nudie film that masquerades as an anti-'marihuana' morality tale.

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