Josef Berne

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White

Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.

A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' fiftieth wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show replete with singers, dancers, comedians, and impressionists.

When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.

Coin operated jukeboxes during WWII were able to play video as well as the audio and this here is one example of that. Ray Noble and His Orchestra get the top billing here but we've also got Snooky Lanson and a couple other performers chipping in to sing the title song.

The Delta Rhythem Boys sing while a skeleton lurks in the hallway

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White

Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.

Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.

A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' fiftieth wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show replete with singers, dancers, comedians, and impressionists.

When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.

When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.

Coin operated jukeboxes during WWII were able to play video as well as the audio and this here is one example of that. Ray Noble and His Orchestra get the top billing here but we've also got Snooky Lanson and a couple other performers chipping in to sing the title song.

The Delta Rhythem Boys sing while a skeleton lurks in the hallway

Susan Miller sings "A Feller Who Plays in a Band."

Princess Aloha & Andy Iona's Orchestra in Hilo Hattie.

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

1942 Short restored in true form

Nat 'King' Cole & Ida James wonders "Who's Been Eating My Porridge?"

A young girl who has spent her life in the mountains finally journeys to the big city to fulfill her life's dream of becoming a ballerina,. However, she soon discovers that achieving that dream is a lot more difficult than she thought it would be.

Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.

Louis Armstrong and his Sleepy Time Down South.

Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.

Burlesque presentation of "fan dance" by the original performer Faith Bacon.

After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student endangers Paul's new American existence and his family's which stayed in Germany.

Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.

Soundie featuring June Richmond (vocals) and Roy Milton performing "Hey Lawdy Mama."

Charles Dorn with the novelty number My Little Grass Shack.

A comic short featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers.

Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".

Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in love with the impoverished playwright, Rodolfo, but poverty takes its toll on their relationship. When Mimi meets a wealthy suitor, Viscount Paul, to ask him for financial help, Rodolfo dumps her.

A burlesque presentation in an antique environment with Faith Bacon in black veils.

Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.

Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.

Soundie with a circus setting featuring the David Rose Orchestra.

Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."

Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang perform "Shame on You".

Martha Tilton & Ben Pollack's Orchestra

A marshal goes after a bandit gang who is robbing stagecoaches and that, unbeknownst to him, is led by one of his town's prominent citizens.

Restored film directed by Josef Berne, released in 1942

Musical short starring Spade Cooley.

Delta Rhythm Boys perform "Snoqualomie Jo Jo".

Soundie with Gael Amber singing and few couples dancing.

Gypsies sing and dance around the fire while their children dream.

The Counts and the Countess perform "Five Salted Peanuts".

Moonlight Becomes You, Eddy Howard.