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Secret Cinema presents Jazz and Swing Rarities tomorrow

POSTED: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 4:21 PM

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Pairing jazz and film is natural for Secret Cinema programmer Jay Schwartz. 'Jazz started in the early 20th century and so did the movies,' he says. Schwartz celebrates the couple with a slate of shorts, a cartoon and Soundies ' early music videos viewed in a film jukebox. The program features music by Louis Armstrong, Rogers & Hart and Cab Calloway. Calloway, and his famous drug-referencing song, appears in the seminal Fleischer brothers' 'Minnie the Moocher." In the animated short, Betty Boop and BF Bimbo run away from home only to bump into a ghost walrus who sings the titular tune. But what's really impressive is that the walrus moves with Calloway's exact fluidity; Calloway's rolly-poly dancing was rotoscoped, a technique that allowed animators to capture live action movement (think Richard Linklater's Waking Life, those Charles Schwab commercials, etc.). Check it out below (the videos quality does no justice to the 'toon. Schwartz's print will obviously be better):

One selection, 'He was Her Man' directed by Dudley Murphy is so rare that two sources said it was lost. But, of course, Schwartz has a print.

Jazz & Swing Rarities, Fri., Sept. 25, 8:00 pm, $7, Moore College of Art & Design, 20th & Race Streets, Philadelphia, 215-965-4099, thesecretcinema.com.

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