[Dixielandjazz] King of Jazz

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 In August I went to see the King of Jazz, which had the first color and sound cartoon ever made.  The cartoon was produced by Walter Lantz of future Woody Woodpecker fame.  Since I attended the performance that evening at the VIP level, the organization that sponsored the event, Media Heritage, gave out a limited number of prints that was created by Joe Busam a local artist and animator.  It represents a copy of a cel from the cartoon.  

Before the movie "King of Jazz" which features the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Barbara Rosene (current singer with the Harry James Orchestra) sang a few tunes that would have been heard on the radio during the time frame of the movie, 1930, so the audience would be in the right setting for the musical adventure to be presented to us. 

I sat in awe over some of the footage, there was a scene that was not in a complete form. The sound was there but not the video, so instead, stills were shown of the scene until video was again synced up with the audio. 

If anyone wants to see a copy of the print by Joe Busam, just email me and I can sent a copy. 
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> On Nov 24, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
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> King of Jazz 
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> ‘King of Jazz’ Now Playing -- Once Again -- in Living Technicolor
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> “King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman’s Technicolor Revue.” By James Layton and David Pierce. Media History Press. 302 pp. $50.
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> by David Robinson
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> Washington Post, November 23, 2016
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> In 2013, when the Library of Congress inducted “King of Jazz” (1930) into the National Film Registry, it turned out that there was no complete or technically authentic copy for the Library to acquire. Such national recognition, however, encouraged ­NBCUniversal to finance a digital restoration from the scattered elements that had come to light in the years since the 1950s, when all that seemed to survive was a four-minute trailer that did not even include a sighting of an engaging screen debutant, Bing Crosby -- the only face that today’s audiences are likely to recognize among the movie’s still scintillating but long-departed stars.
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