Film clip of "Sheik of Araby" from Tin Pan Alley: Museum Object and Cultural History
Film clip of "Sheik of Araby" from Tin Pan Alley: Date: 1940. Directed by: Walter Lang, American, 1896 - 1972. Subject of: Alice Faye, American, 1915 - 1998.
The object in the museum catalogue
A film clip with a performance of "Sheik of Araby" from the film Tin Pan Alley. It consists of a single reel of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical sound. The footage opens with several women dancing on stage. Their routine terminates with them sitting around a man (Billy Gilbert) underneath a canopy. Shortly afterwards, two veiled women (Alice Faye and Betty Grabble) enter the stage dancing as they sing the jazz song "Sheik of Araby." Billy Gilbert then joins the women's performance and the trio sing and dance on the stage. The audience applauds at the end of their performance.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1940
- Directed by: Walter Lang, American, 1896 - 1972
- Subject of: Alice Faye, American, 1915 - 1998
- Subject of: Betty Grable, American, 1916 - 1973
- Subject of: Billy Gilbert, American, 1894 - 1971
- 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 (digitial file): 00:03:03
- Dimensions: Physical extent (film): 160 ft
- Place made: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Object number: 2015.275.29.1a
- 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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