Show girls / director and researcher, Meilan Lam ; producers, Tamara Lynch, Barrie Angus McLean ; a National Film Board of Canada production.

Title & Author:

Show girls / director and researcher, Meilan Lam ; producers, Tamara Lynch, Barrie Angus McLean ; a National Film Board of Canada production.

Publication:

[Montréal, P.Q] : National Film Board of Canada, 1998.

Description:

1 videocassette (52 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Notes:
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Producers, Tamara Lynch and Barrie Angus McLean.
Narrator, Anthony Sherwood.
Educational public performance rights for life of tape.

Summary:

Celebrates Montreal's black jazz scene from the 1920's to the 1960's, focusing on three women who danced in jazz clubs such as Rockhead's Paradise, The terminal, Café St. Michel. In doing so, provides a portrait of Montreal and especially its black neighbourhoods.

Resources:
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Subject:

Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Québec (Province) Montréal.
Women dancers Québec (Province) Montréal.
Black people Québec (Province) Montréal.
Women entertainers Québec (Province) Montréal Biography.
Harlem Renaissance.
Documentary films.
Danseuses Québec (Province) Montréal.
Personnes noires Québec (Province) Montréal.
Femmes artistes du spectacle Québec (Province) Montréal Biographies.
Documentaires.
Black people
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
Women dancers
Women entertainers
Québec Montréal

Form/genre:

Documentaries and Factual Films
Biography
Videocassettes.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
VHS (TM)
Videotapes.
documentary film.
Documentary films
Biographies
Documentaires.

Added entries:

Lam, Meilan.
National Film Board of Canada.

Holdings:

Location: Library main av 248203
Call No.: FC2947.9.B6 S5 1998
Status: Available

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