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- A young, recently-released and unpredictable ex-con with bad luck, and a sexy, listless girl-next-door with a troubled family, become trapped in a downward spiral of crime and obsessive love, as they try to ditch their dead-end town for a better life.
- Don't be fooled by the title - Droopy looks like Droopy, but he's actually jazzman John Pettibone, with his performing flea combo, and the film shows how it came into being.
- After his regiment is destroyed, a Black Union physician flees into the Virginian woods, stumbling on a Confederate soldier hiding in a cave; they share a fire, and try to find a moment of understanding before the sun comes up.
- This entry in the "See America First" series focuses on the ten years prior to the US Civil War. We see monuments and buildings associated with people and places of that era. Some of these are: a monument to slaves in Nachitoches, Louisiana; the Brunswick, Maine home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, where she wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Fort Nashboro in Nashville, Tennessee; composer Stephen Foster's home in Bardstown, Kentucky; the grave of abolitionist John Brown at his family's farm in North Elba, New York; and Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage.
- Dixieland music program featuring young musicians and singers supplemented with appearances by well-known jazz masters.
- The popular event started in 1960 as a "Special Party." The opening year saw six Dixieland bands performing on the Rivers of America in Frontierland. It partially took the operations people at Disneyland by surprise, when over 9000 jazz fans descended on Disneyland to enjoy the various concerts throughout the parks. The ticket that heads this essay, is from the first ever Dixieland at Disneyland on October 1, 1960. The event would last through 1970, but here the live afternoon telecast focused on the heyday of Dixieland at Disneyland, with Al Hirt and his Band performing on the Tomorrow Land stage with Walt Disney himself making the introductions. (1964)
- Inspired by true events happened in the Terezin Concentration Camp. The story of a deported jazz violinist and his band is set in a surreal imaginary lager. A violinist, deported to the imaginary lager of Siegfriedsdorf, deprived of his violin and forced to work in the carpentry of the camp, transforms a long saw into a strange but fascinating musical instrument. With his obstinate attempts to regain possession of the musical world and alienate himself from the context, he ends up arousing the interest of the German commander who orders him to form a small orchestra together with other prisoners. The violinist is therefore allowed to play again, in a growing approval, but will be forced to keep playing in the dramatic situations that the concentration camp imposes.
- Official Selection Odense Film Festival 2010 Each year around 50 people are executed in the US. The vast majority of executions take place in Texas by lethal injection. Since 1997 Karl Chamberlain has been on death row in Texas because he raped and murdered a 30-year-old woman in her apartment in Dallas in 1991. Dying in Dixieland follows Karl's mother, an old hippie and now a practicing Muslim, who hopes that her prayers will save her son's life as she tries to understand what turned her once sweet little son into a violent criminal. She shares her concerns with a group of women, pen pals of Karl who in turn have developed boyfriend-like relationship with the condemned man on death row. For Karl's mother it is not just about Karl's life but also her own. The pending execution is the culmination of a turbulent life with nine children. The last time she visited her son on death row, it was so hard on her, that she wanted to take her own life. Her friends now fear that if Karl is not pardoned, this execution might lead her to attempt suicide. This film also introduces the victim's lawyer and family in the attempt to understand a tragic situation where everybody will lose out, but where love also seems to overcome even the worst sex crime.
- The Warners Shorts department, always ready when it came to making something new out of something old, took archive footage from two earlier Vitaphone shorts---"An All-Colored Vaudeville Show, 1935" and "Hi De Ho, 1937"---and came up with "Dixieland Jamboree" in 1946. "Archive footage" performers include Eunice Wilson, Adelaide Hall, the Five Racketeers, the 3 Whippets, the Nicholas Brothers (Fayard and Harold)and Cab Calloway.
- A minstrel troupe is embarking for a tour of the South. Henry Clay, a negro appears on the scene wearing the frayed coat of a Confederate General. He borrows a guitar from one of the minstrel men and begins singing "Way down South in Dixie," and the story unfolds. It opens coincident with the Civil War. The mistress at the old plantation sends Clay with a note to give to Belle at the next plantation. In response Belle returns and meets her lover Fairley, the brother of the mistress, while William, an older man, is revealed as the suitor of the hostess. It turns out in the course of a foxhunt that "William was a gay deceiver." Then comes the South in the saddle and the war. The mistress dies of a broken heart and Belle is left lonely. Fairley goes on secret service as a spy and writes Belle a farewell note. William, who is shown as conscience-stricken, rushes back to war duty. A battle results in William's capture, and he is taken North to prison accompanied by the faithful Clay. They attempt to escape prison and William is mortally wounded by a guard, Fairley has been captured as a spy and is about to be shot when the proclamation of peace arrests the order and releases him. Clay brings him a note from the dead William urging him to hasten south to Belle. The scene shifts to the ruined homes of the South, but Belle and Fairley are reunited, and the song rounds out the picturesque story on the old plantation with the negroes dancing the "walk around."
- The Harts try to prove a friend is innocent after he's accused of his rich girlfriend's murder.
- Episode: (1959)1948–19711hTV-GTV Episode
- 1958–1967TV Episode
- In the early 1900s on the heels of Ragtime, a new genre emerged, Dixieland. In this style, some of the music is written out, and some is improvised. The Last Chance Dixieland Jazz Band showcases a fine example of traditional Jazz, in all its 'toe-tapping' glory.
- 2017– 2h 3mPodcast Episode
- Episode: (2022)2019– 23mPodcast Episode
- 2016– 36mPodcast Episode
- 2016– 30mPodcast Episode
- Episode: (2024)2021– 2mPodcast Episode
- 1962–19921h 30mTV-GTV Episode
- 1963–1966TV EpisodeFeaturing Art Carney, Patrice Munsel, Dukes of Dixieland, and Ron Martin.
- 2016–201742mTV-146.4 (20)TV EpisodeIn Biloxi, Miss., Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife, Margaret, a city councilwoman, are shot to death in their home; the murdered couple's oldest daughter sets out on a 10-year quest to find her parents' killer.
- 1956–TV Episode