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Cookie's scrapbook

Title
  1. Cookie's scrapbook [videorecording] / produced, directed and written by Susan Goldbetter.
Published by
  1. 1987.
Format
  1. VHS

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Additional authors
  1. Goldbetter, Susan
  2. Cook, Charles, 1917-1991
  3. Brown, Buster, 1913-2002
  4. Roberts, Jim
  5. Meyers, Leroy
  6. Cicali, Joseph
  7. Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
Description
  1. 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
  1. Documentary about the life and career of Cook, including capsule histories of the all-black musical comedy Shuffle along, Harlem nightclubs, the Apollo Theater, and the Copasetic Club, illustrated with still photographs. Cook and Brown reminisce about the dancers Ernest Brown (Cook's longtime partner), Eddie Rector, Baby Laurence (Laurence Donald Jackson), and Bill Robinson, and demonstrate aspects of their dancing.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Gift of Susan Goldbetter.
Subject
  1. Cook, Charles, 1917-1991.
  2. Dancers -- United States -- Biography.
  3. Brown, Ernest.
  4. Rector, Eddie.
  5. Laurence, Baby.
  6. Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949.
  7. Tap dancing.
  8. Dance, Black -- United States.
Genre/Form
  1. Documentaries and factual films and programs.
  2. Dance.
  3. Video.
Call number
  1. *MGZIA 4-5129
Language
  1. English
Credits (note)
  1. Lighting, Eric Gertner.
Performer (note)
  1. Narrator: Leroy Meyers.
Event (note)
  1. Recorded at Vidlo Video, New York, in May 1987 ; videography, Joe Cicali.
Local subject
  1. Television. Cookie's scrapbook.
Local subject
  1. Musical comedies. Shuffle along.
  2. Nightclubs -- New York (N.Y.)
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