Movies: Rcm Productions

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short....

Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models....

Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie"....

Spike Jones and His City Slickers perform "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy"....

An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date....

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942....

In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them....

Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again....

Vanita Smythe sings "Back Door Man."...

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White...

The Bronco Busters perform "Old Chisholm Trail."...

A little music from Lynn Albritton, Lou Ellen and The Harlem Cuties....

Deuce Spriggins' Band teaming with Carolina Cotton for "Down the Trail to San Antone."...

Nat 'King' Cole & Ida James wonders "Who's Been Eating My Porridge?"...

Soundie featuring The Chanticleers singing "Babbling Bess." Also starring Francine Everett (as Babbling Bess) and Mable Lee (Dancer)....

Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones"....

Jazz Soundie with Stan Kenton and his players....

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any mo...

Merle Travis dreaming of a Texas Home....

Louis Armstrong and his Sleepy Time Down South....