Frank Sinatra performs at the Walton High School Auditorium in the Bronx, New York City. He sings 'The Song is You'. Women military WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) seated in the hall. A conductor conducts the Station Military and Dance Band. Sailors play various instruments like the double bass, trumpets, and clarinets. (No audio).
African American composer, pianist and band leader, Duke Ellington seated at his piano in the home atmosphere of his office in the Capitol Records Company Building. He plays a phrase on the piano then makes musical notation. Sheet music of Ellington's works are filmed in close up, including Mood Indigo, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Black and Tan Fantasy, Sophisticated, and Caravan.
African American jazz pianist Arthur Tatum Jr. performs while filming at the Three Deuces night club on 52nd Street in New York City, during World War 2. (This film contains a number of takes, from various angles, of Tatum and the trio performing , including some of Tatum's hands, alone, on the piano keys.) Entrance to the Three Deuces night club. Poster at entrance advertising Art Tatum and his Trio. People enter the club. Tatum plays the piano, accompanied by bassist Slam Stewart and guitarist Tiny Grimes. People seated at tables listening to the performance. The Trio performs. A sailor and a girl seated nearby. (Note: The tune being played is entitled, "Tiny's Exercise," written by guitarist Tiny Grimes.)
(With audio). American singer and Hollywood actor Frank Sinatra performs during a filming at the Walton High School Auditorium in the Bronx, New York City. Sinatra talks to the audience. He sings 'The Song is You'. Women's Reserve members (WAVES - Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) seated in the hall. A conductor conducts the Station Military and Dance Band. Sailors play various instruments like the double bass, trumpets, and clarinets. Women military WAVES members applaud after the performance. He acknowledges the applause.
Women military WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) seated in the Walton High School Auditorium in the Bronx, New York City. The Women's military reserve units await a performance by Frank Sinatra. WAVES applaud and cheer. A WAVES stands next to a board stating the night's performance by Frank Sinatra as well as the Station Military and Dance Band. WAVES seated inside the auditorium. They applaud.
"Making Steel for War" shows powered shovel digging iron ore out of an open pit mine. After obtaining the Iron Ore ,it is crushed and shipped to steel mills. Countless open railroad cars filled with iron ore in a marshalling yard. Iron ore being loaded into an ore carrier ship. The ship carrying the Iron Ore reaches its destination, where huge cranes with claw buckets reach in and remove the iron ore from the ship. View of steel mill complex including rail yard, furnaces, and numerous structures. Powered shovel digging limestone out of open pit mine and loading it on to conveyer. Coal being discharged from coking ovens and bursting into flames when it contacts the open air. .
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