Jazz on Film: Talkies, Shorts and Animated Juke Joints

From Bessie Smith's 'St. Louis Blues' to Duke's 'Black and Tan' to Betty Boop howling 'Minnie the Moocher' — the music's first moving pictures.

Playlist by @birth_of_jazz

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Black and Tan (1929, Duke Ellington) musical short film written and directed by Dudley Murphy — Cult Cinema Classics
2. St. Louis Blues 1929 (Short, Music) Bessie Smith, Jimmy Mordecai, Isabel Washington — Cult Cinema Classics
3. Cab Calloway & Betty Boop - Minnie The Moocher (1932) (Short Film) — Jazz Time with Jarvis X
4. Cab Calloway 1933 Cartoon of St. James Infirmary Blues — John Corda
5. 1927: The Jazz Singer - How The Movies Learnt To Talk. — One Hundred Years of Cinema
6. The Spoken Words That Caused A Sensation In "The Jazz Singer" (1927) — Porfle Popnecker
7. From Silent To Sound: The Talkie Revolution Of The 1920s — The1920sChannel
8. 'Young Mr Jazz' (1919) - Harold Lloyd | Full Movie (Short Film) | Silent Film | Full HD 1080 — Harold Lloyd
9. 1930 Early Sound Fox Movietone Newsreel featuring 'Hot Jazz' with Frank Westphal [ACCIDENTAL STEREO] — MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS
10. The Reason Early Sound Films are so Strange — The Whole Equation