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Cookie's scrapbook
- Title
- Cookie's scrapbook [videorecording] / produced, directed and written by Susan Goldbetter.
- Publication
- 1987.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- Documentary about the life and career of Cook, including capsule histories of the all-black musical comedy Shuffle along, Harlem nightclubs, the Apollo Theater, and the Copasetic Club, illustrated with still photographs. Cook and Brown reminisce about the dancers Ernest Brown (Cook's longtime partner), Eddie Rector, Baby Laurence (Laurence Donald Jackson), and Bill Robinson, and demonstrate aspects of their dancing.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Susan Goldbetter.
- Subjects
- Brown, Ernest
- Dance, Black > United States
- Tap dancing
- Video
- Musical comedies > Shuffle along
- Laurence, Baby
- Dancers > United States > Biography
- Television > Cookie's scrapbook
- Rector, Eddie
- Dance
- Cook, Charles, 1917-1991
- Nightclubs > New York (N.Y.)
- Documentaries and factual films and programs
- Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
- Genre/Form
- Documentaries and factual films and programs.
- Dance.
- Video.
- Credits (note)
- Lighting, Eric Gertner.
- Performer (note)
- Narrator: Leroy Meyers.
- Event (note)
- Recorded at Vidlo Video, New York, in May 1987 ; videography, Joe Cicali.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-5129
- OCLC
- NYPY906002681-F
- Title
- Cookie's scrapbook [videorecording] / produced, directed and written by Susan Goldbetter.
- Imprint
- 1987.
- Event
- Recorded at Vidlo Video, New York, in May 1987 ; videography, Joe Cicali.
- Credits
- Lighting, Eric Gertner.
- Performer
- Narrator: Leroy Meyers.Performed by Charles "Cookie" Cook and James "Buster" Brown, with pianist Jim Roberts.
- Local Subject
- Television. Cookie's scrapbook.
- Local Subject
- Musical comedies. Shuffle along.Nightclubs -- New York (N.Y.)
- Added Author
- Goldbetter, Susan. DirectorCook, Charles, 1917-1991, dancer.Brown, Buster, 1913-2002, dancer.Roberts, Jim. InstrumentalistMeyers, Leroy. NarratorGoldbetter, Susan. ProducerCicali, Joseph.Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-5129