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New Orleans

Title
New Orleans / produced by Jules Levey ; directed by Arthur Lubin ; screen play by Elliot Paul and Dick Irving Hyland from an original story by Elliot Paul and Herbert J. Biberman.
Publication
NYC [i.e. New York] : Kino International, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Levey, Jules.
  • Lubin, Arthur, 1901-1995.
  • Paul, Elliot, 1891-1958.
  • Hyland, Dick Irving, 1906-1976.
  • Biberman, H. J. (Herbert J.)
  • Córdova, Arturo de, 1908-1973.
  • Patrick, Dorothy.
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
  • Herman, Woody, 1913-1987.
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975.
  • Bigard, Barney.
  • Ory, Kid, 1886-1973.
  • Scott, Bud, 1890-1949.
  • Callender, Red.
  • Beal, Charlie, 1908-1991.
  • Lewis, Meade, 1905-1964.
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
  • Kino International Corporation.
Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Nick, the proprietor of a Bourbon Street gambling joint, an artistic haven for African-American musicans who gather and jam from dusk til dawn, falls in love with an opera-singing socialite. After losing his nightclub Nick tries over the course of many years to get jazz the respect and audience it deserves.
Alternative Title
  • Rhapsody in black and blue.
  • Symphony in black.
Subjects
Note
  • Originally released as a motion picture by United Artists in 1947.
  • "Also included on this DVD are two musical shorts from Paramount Studios (A rhapsody in black and blue featuring Armstrong and Symphony in black with Holiday and Duke Ellington) as well as an essay on the making of New Orleans, which originated as a project for Orson Welles"--Container.
Credits (note)
  • Director of photography, Lucien Andriot ; musical director, Nat W. Finston.
Performer (note)
  • Arturo de Cordova, Dorothy Patrick, Louis Armstrong and his band, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman and his orchestra, Original New Orleans Ragtime Band (Louis Armstrong, Zutty Singleton, Barney Bigard, Kid Ory, Bud Scott, Red Callendar, Charlie Beal and Meade Lux Lewis).
System Details (note)
  • DVD format.
OCLC
  • ocm44422631
  • SCSB-3828598
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries