Underplayed Gems

Pitch a Boogie Woogie

Pitch a Boogie Woogie poster
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This musical comedy was made for Black audiences in the 1940s. It features local performers and vaudeville acts from traveling shows in the Carolinas, with music and dance numbers.

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What happens

Pitch a Boogie Woogie is a musical comedy featurette made by Lord-Warner Pictures in North Carolina. It was produced for Black audience theaters and its performers were a mix of local talent and cast members from two traveling vaudeville shows, Winstead Mighty Minstrels, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Irvin C. Miller's Brown Skin Models, a New York-based troupe that began in Harlem in the 1920s. According to one source, the bookkeeper for Miller's Brown Skin Models had become stranded and they were added to the Winstead group as they played one-week stands in tobacco towns in the Carolinas. They were familiar to the filmmaker, John W. Warner, who operated a Black-audience theater, the Plaza, in a lively section of Greenville, North Carolina known as "the Block." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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