Vaudeville

Lennie and his friend would have seen vaudeville show.

One of the all-time greatest jazz vocal groups, the Boswell Sisters, Martha, Vet and Connee, began their career in the vaudeville houses of New Orleans

The Great Depression

A brief look at the Great Depression and beyond.

America's Funniest 1930's Video

They may have watched something like this at a carnival.

Cecil Dill demonstrates and explains how he can play "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" using only his hands. This clip is circa 1935.

Typical Cartoon from the 30's

This would be a typical cartoon of the 1930's that they might have seen at the movies. This cartoon is Betty Boop: Swat The Fly (1935)

When Swing Was King

Clip 4 When Swing was King
Hoagy Carmichael and Jack Teagarden (1939)
Hoagy introduces Jack Teagarden's first big band (trumpeter Charlie Spivak solos on "Stardust"; future Glenn Miller reedman Ernie Caceres is also present). The short features several of Hoagy's best known songs, sung by Hoagy, Big Tea or Meredith Blake, one of the better but underrated big band "girl singers."

Music and song from the Great Depression

An authentic, rare classic version of the standard "I Ain't Got Nobody," sung by the Mills Brothers, shot in the early 1930's.

Dancing music from the 1930's

It is the opening scene to 'Something To Sing About'
1930's - James Cagney Dancing

Music and film's from the 1930's

1930's I've Gotta Feelin Your Foolin' 1935
Ann Sothern and Robert Tayor. Comes from The Broadway Melody of 1936.