Jeanne Bayer

Movies2

• Movie9.0

  Music

  A Soundie with Bill Robinson and the tune "By an Old Southern River."

  By an Old Southern River

  1942 · 1 votes

• Movie5.5

  Music

  "Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any movie with an all-black cast, intended primarily for distribution in black neighbourhoods at a time when many American cinemas were segregated.) The song-and-dance performer here is none other than the great Bill Robinson.

  Let's Scuffle

  1942 · 2 votes