Cab Calloway’s home movies, Minnie the Moocher and Many Many More screen FREE as Part of Made In Harlem: Home to Harlem curated by Ina Archer

Cab Calloway’s Home Movies (digital compilation)
Cab Calloway & Nuffie Calloway, 16 min. Digital
A compilation of B&W and color 16mm home movies, between 1948 and 1955, shot by Cab Calloway and his wife, Zulme “Nuffie” Calloway, with audio from transcription disks in the Cab Calloway Collection.

Courtesy of the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Cab Calloway Collection — Smithsonian Institution and the Cab Calloway Foundation

Minnie The Moocher and Many Many More 
Manny Pittson, 1981, 49 min. 16mm
A nostalgic tour through the great Harlem jazz clubs of the 1930s and '40s, led by Harlem born personality Cab Calloway. Using rare clips and "soundies'' Calloway fondly recalls the famous clubs – Yeah Man, Tillis Chicken Shack, Cotton Club – and the legendary stars that played them, including Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Calloway himself.

16mm print courtesy of The NYPL Performing Arts Library Reserve Film & Video Collection

Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
Fred Waller 1935 8 min.
Broadcasting from Harlem’s Cotton Club “A musical Description of Darkest Harlem.” And a walk through Harlem nightlife with Cab and his pals.

The screening will be followed by a discussion between Carlos Alejandro (filmmaker, Executive Director of the Cab Calloway Foundation) and Ina Archer (Home To Harlem curator).