New Orleans
(DVD)

"The all-musical tribute to the birth of jazz"

Originally released as a motion picture by United Artists in 1947.

"Featuring nine musical numbers."

"Also included on this DVD are two musical shorts from Paramount Studios (A rhapsody in black and blue featuring Armstrong and Symphony in black with Holiday and Duke Ellington) as well as an essay on the making of New Orleans, which originated as a project for Orson Welles"--Container.

Some containers read 90 minutes (this excludes the musical shorts).

Director of photography, Lucien Andriot ; musical director, Nat W. Finston.

Arturo de Cordova, Dorothy Patrick, Louis Armstrong and his band, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman and his orchestra, Original New Orleans Ragtime Band (Louis Armstrong, Zutty Singleton, Barney Bigard, Kid Ory, Bud Scott, Red Callendar, Charlie Beal and Meade Lux Lewis).

Nick, the proprietor of a Bourbon Street gambling joint, an artistic haven for African-American musicians who gather and jam from dusk til dawn, falls in love with an opera-singing socialite. After losing his nightclub Nick tries over the course of many years to get jazz the respect and audience it deserves.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD.