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Oral history interview with Ernie Smith

Title
  1. Oral history interview with Ernie Smith / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by James Briggs Murray.
Published by
  1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.
Author
  1. Smith, Ernie, 1924-2004

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Additional authors
  1. Murray, James Briggs
  2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.
Description
  1. 6 videodsics (124 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. The Oral History Interview with Ernie Smith documents segments of his early years, his interest in jazz and dance, and his activities as a film collector. Topics covered include: Early interest in social dancing; attending art school; arriving in New York City; working for Marshall Stearns at his Institute of Jazz Studies (now at Rutgers University); film collecting activities; studying film and using it as a teaching tool; "buck dancing," "jig dancing," "the lindy hop," and other unique dance and tap styles; dance artists such as Bill Robinson, Coles and Atkins, and the Nicholas Brothers; and the impact of electronic processing on jazz music.
Subject
  1. Tap dancing
  2. African American dance > History
  3. Jazz
  4. Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
  5. Motion pictures > Collectors and collecting
  6. Oral histories
  7. Filmed interviews
  8. Institute of Jazz Studies
  9. Stearns, Marshall Winslow
  10. Ballroom dancing
Genre/Form
  1. Interviews.
  2. Oral histories.
  3. Nonfiction films.
Call number
  1. Sc Visual VRA-77a-b
Credits (note)
  1. Interviewer, James Briggs Murray.
Biography (note)
  1. Ernie Smith is a historian, lecturer, and film collector in the field of jazz and dance.
Author
  1. Smith, Ernie, 1924-2004, interviewee.
Title
  1. Oral history interview with Ernie Smith / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by James Briggs Murray.
Publisher
  1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.
Country of producing entity
  1. United States.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. video
Type of carrier
  1. videodisc
Digital file characteristics
  1. video file DVD
Credits
  1. Interviewer, James Briggs Murray.
Event
  1. Recorded September 27, 1986. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
Biography
  1. Ernie Smith is a historian, lecturer, and film collector in the field of jazz and dance.
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Added author
  1. Murray, James Briggs, interviewer.
  2. Smith, Ernie, interviewee.
  3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.
Research call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1319
  2. Sc Visual VRB-2007 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-77a-b.
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