Multimedia: Jungle Jazz
In the genre of a 1950's U.S. propaganda scare film, Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy # 1 combines cutting edge music by the critically acclaimed, multi-talented, songwriter/ composer/music producer, Frank Fitzpatrick with footage from Soundies, a little known American film art form produced in the early 1940's. A
precursor to today's music videos, Soundies were short 16mm
films which accompanied the popular songs of the day on jukeboxes
designed to play them. For the drop of a nickel, a back-lit, black
and white, 3 minute, high quality, amazingly choreographed, dance
film would appear before the viewer's eyes with the song selection
playing over it. Nearly 2000 Soundies were made, but the form never
became popular and they soon disappeared. Working with a Los Angeles
archivist who has collected 1300 of these prints, Fitzpatrick has
created an amazing short film integrating rare footage from a number
of soundies with cutting edge music, incorporating a story line
that echoes Reefer Madness and other scare films produced
by the U.S. government in the 1950's. With the film Jungle
Jazz: Public Enemy #1, many people will get to see
for the first time ever, this amazing, little-known and all-but-lost
American art form. Running Time: 7:00 Format 35mm Black & White
WINNER!!!
Jungle Cinema and Envisage Entertainment
present: Honorable
Mention for Best Jazz Short
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