Clip of Benny Goodman Orchestra performing "Sing, Sing, Sing" on Hollywood Hotel: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A 16mm motion picture film with a clip of The Benny Goodman Orchestra performing "Sing, Sing, Sing" on the musical comedy Hollywood Hotel. It consists of a single reel of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical sound. The footage opens with Gene Krupa playing the drum as the camera slowly pans outwards to reveal The Benny Goodman Orchestra performing on a stage. Later in the clip, the camera focuses on specific instrumentalists from the Benny Goodman Quartet: Gene Krupa can be seen playing the drums, Benny Goodman is seen with the clarinet, Lionel Hampton playing the vibraphone and Teddy Wilson on the piano.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1937
• Directed by: Busby Berkeley, American, 1895 - 1976
• Subject of: Benny Goodman Orchestra, American
• Subject of: Teddy Wilson, American, 1912 - 1986
• Subject of: Lionel Hampton, American, 1908 - 2002
• Subject of: Gene Krupa, American, 1909 - 1973
• Owned by: Ernie Smith, American, ca. 1925 - 2004
• Type: sound films
• Type: black-and-white films (visual works)
• Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
• Type: film clips
• Medium: acetate film
• Dimensions: Duration (digital file): 00:05:40
• Dimensions: Physical extent (film): 200 ft
• Place made: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Musicians
• Object number: 2015.275.22.1a
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Anonymous Gift in memory of Ernest (Ernie) R. Smith, Jazz Historian
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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