Research Catalog

Title

No maps on my taps [videorecording] / a GTN Production ; a presentation of the Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen ; PBS ; produced and directed by George T. Nierenberg ; writers, George T. Nierenberg, Lynn Rogoff.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Direct Cinema Limited, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sims, Sandman.
• Green, Chuck.
• Briggs, Bunny.
• Nierenberg, George T.
• Rogoff, Lynn.
• GTN Productions.
• WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
• Direct Cinema Ltd.

Description

1 videocassette (59 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

This film offers insight into jazz tap dancing as an indigenous American art form. The spirit of tap in its heyday, shown in rare photos and Hollywood film clips of the 1930's, provides a backdrop for portraits of three surviving hoofers. Sandman Sims, Chuck Green, and Bunny Briggs tell the story of tap as an expression of Black heritage and culture.

Uniform Title

Non-fiction television (Television program)

Subjects

• Tap dancers > United States > Biography
• Sims, Sandman
• Educational/cultural factual films and videos
• Briggs, Bunny
• Tap dancers > United States > Interviews
• Green, Chuck
• Tap dancing > United States
• Jazz tap > United States
• Dance videos

Genre/Form

Educational/cultural factual films and videos.

Note

• Videocassette release of a motion picture originally issued in 1978.
• Videocassette release of the television program entitled: Non-fiction television.

Credits (note)

• Cameras, Robert Achs ... [et al.] ; editor, Paul Barnes ; music director, Lionel Hampton.

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Awards (note)

• "Blue ribbon 1979 American Film Festival"--Container.

ISBN

1559740558

OCLC

ocm48935024

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library