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Such famous sepia stars as Cab Calloway a famous American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor, "Fats" Waller a Pianist and Bill Robinson who was a famous tap dancer during the first half of the 20th century these African American musicians and dancers are caricatured as frogs and the resemblance to the millpond denizens is astounding. The ...
Jazz Rhythm is a 1930 short animated film distributed by Columbia Pictures. ... Jazz Rhythm at the Big Cartoon Database; Jazz Rhythm at IMDb
A still from the concluding scene of the cartoon. I Love to Singa depicts the story of an owlet (singing voice of Jackie Morrow, speaking voice of Tommy Bond) who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German-accented parents wish him to perform. The plot is a tribute to Al Jolson's 1927 film The Jazz Singer. [3]
The cartoon opens with an animated Earth sleeping in a snoring fashion. It then moves to a cat trying to enter a house's front yard only to be shooed away by a resident dog. The scene once more moves to a house where the ghost of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt rises from a bust, and plays Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 on a piano.
Three Little Bops is a 1957 American animated musical comedy film, directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster. [1] A takeoff on The Three Little Pigs told as a hip, jazzy musical, the short features the voice of Stan Freberg, with music provided by jazz composer/trumpeter Shorty Rogers. [2]
Calloway performed the song and two others, "St. James Infirmary Blues" and "The Old Man of the Mountain", in the Betty Boop cartoons Minnie the Moocher (1932), Snow-White (1933), and The Old Man of the Mountain (1933). Calloway performed voice-over for these cartoons, and through rotoscoping, his dance steps were the basis of the characters ...
The Jazz Fool is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on December 21, 1929, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. [2] It was the twelfth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the ninth of that year. [3] The cartoon's title combines the titles of two Al Jolson films: The Jazz Singer (1927) and The Singing Fool (1928). [2]
The Queen's Cartoonists is a jazz ensemble from Queens, New York, known for their live performances synchronizing music with animated films.They blend classic and contemporary animation and musical compositions while incorporating classical music, comedy, Foley, and clowning.