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The DeFlores Film Project |
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Bob's Community Connection Award |
Television ProductionsBig Band Treasures will have its fourth broadcast on Saturday, August 23, 2008, at 8 p.m. on Twin Cities Public Television channel 17 (Minneapolis Comcast 13). See our Television Productions page for more information. It will be broadcast statewide on the digital MN Channel on Wednesday, August 20, at 7 p.m. and on Thursday, August 21, at 1 a.m. The program draws from the DeFlores Archives’ extensive collection of musical Soundies and short films. Big Band Treasures showcases some famous big band royalty (Count Basie, Duke Ellington) but also contains footage of such less-remembered band leaders as Tommy Christian, Rita Rio, Andy Kirk, and Johnny Long. Bruce Henry, jazz vocalist and educator, introduces the TPT program. He was filmed at the Dakota Jazz Club, where he performs regularly. Sponsorship for the program was provided by Dr. Mark Migliori, who practices plastic and reconstructive surgery, plays drums, and appreciates jazz, blues, and rock and roll. Normandale Community College and Twin Cities Public Television in Saint Paul will partner with the Bob DeFlores Film Archive on the production of more 30-minute programs for broadcast on the TPT Minnesota Channel. Film clips for these programs are chosen for their academic value as well as their wide variety of entertaining performances. Instrumental Women will focus on the "all-girl" orchestras introduced to us in Big Band Treasures. Soundies: Lost Treasures, a potential program topic, would introduce an old format of music videos to a new audience. Soundies are three-minute 16mm-films that were played on self-contained, coin-operated projection machines called Panorams. The machines appeared in thousands of restaurants, hotel lobbies, bus stations, and train depots across the country during the early 1940s. The films featured popular and influential entertainers, musicians, dancers, jugglers, and other stage acts. This program could explore the phenomenon of this personal visual jukebox and show several clips of both famous and forgotten performers. Sponsorships are
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