moviepas wrote:That print cost $1000 and came from Brentford Labs/London(Rank Film Labs) via USA. It was, in fact, copied from the BBC's own print. The purchaser, now deceased a few years at 96, on sold it to the local Bing Crosby Club. It was 16mm. The original screening on two nights was at Camberwell Civic Centre about April or so 1978 and included a program, a 7" 45rpm disc with the overture played by Reginald Dixon on the Blackpool Wurlitzer and a recreation stage show. I am led to believe it had last been previously screened(in 35mm) at the now lost theatrettes uder the old Australia Hotel in Melbourne in 1945. Probably the 1933 shortened version. A set of Vitaphone discs were donated to the ABC Record Library around 1978 by the wife of a deceased Adelaide projector operator. The ABC did play them as part of their Saturday night nostalgia show then. A listener said some of the scenes(comedy, Slim Summerville, who is on my TV screen now in the new Blu Ray of Western Union) were different to the 16mm film screened at the Civic Centre. I don't know and the ABC never fronted with the promised reel to reel tape of the discs to the society.
Seems like the discs might have been donated to the NFSA. A search brings this up.
Title No: 709476
Title: THE KING OF JAZZ : [ORIGINAL MOVIE SOUNDTRACK]
Production Date: 1930
Produced as: Music
Categories: Jazz music; Sound track
Media: Sound Recording, Published
Summary: Contents: 1. Opening credits --
2. Music hath charms/Bing Crosby with the band --
3. Opening remarks/Charles Irwin --
4. Cartoon, My Lord delivered Daniel/Bing Crosby --
5. Introducing the band/Charles Irwin with Paul Whiteman --
6. Meet the boys --
7. Meet the girls --
8. My bridal veil/Jeanette Loff and Stanley Smith --
9. The daily meows (comedy skit) --
10. The Rhythm Boys --
11. (It Happened in) Monterey/John Boles and Jeanette Loff --
12. In conference (Comedy skit) --
13. Jack White (The Property Man) --
14. A bench in the park/Glenn Tryon and Laura LaPlante, the Brox Sisters and the Rhythm Boys --
15. Spring time --
16. All noisy on the Eastern Front (Comedy skit) --
17. Variations based on noises from a garage/Wille Hall --
18. Rhapsody in blue/Paul Whiteman Orchestra --
19. Oh! Forevermore! (comedy skit) --
20. My ragamuffin Romeo/Jeanie Lang and George Chiles --
21. Horse costume --
22. Two parents not married --
23. Happy feet/Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris --
24. A meeting with Father (skit) --
25. I like to do things for you/Jeanie Lang, Grace Hayes, William Kent, Nell O'Day --
26. Has anybody seen our Nellie?/Churchill Ross, John Arledge, Frank Leslie, Walter Brennan --
27. The song of the dawn/John Boles --
28. The melting pot of music (medley) --
General note: Soundtrack of the original motion picture. -- Reels No. 1-12.
Country of Origin: U.S.A
Language: English
Credits
Arranger: Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe
Cast: Walter Brennan
Performer: Eddie Lang
Joe Venuti
Bing Crosby
Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Producer: Laemmle, Sr, Carl
Production company: Universal Pictures Corporation