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In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. Within the film, the life of Louis Armstrong is portrayed through the music. One of the outstanding scenes in this "biography/docudrama" shows blind songwriter W. C. Handy, with tears streaming down his face, as Armstrong, backed by Leonard Bernstein leading the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, play Handy's immortal "St. Louis Blues."

Features: Mario Del Monaco Leyla Gencer Ettore Bastianini Fedora Barbieri Laura Londi Plinio Clabassi Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano dell RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

A husband-and-wife dance team works smoothly onstage, but backstage it's one long fight because the wife is observing a "special date", and the husband can't remember what it is.

The misadventures of two Parisian bohemians who imagine they've discovered oil in the South of France.

A singer (Muhammad Fawzi) tries to win the affections of a dancer (Samiya Gamal) after their autos collide.

A mischievous young man has a relationship with a dancer. Her husband surprises him while they are together, so he takes out his gun to kill them, and during their fight a bullet is fired to hit the husband, so the young man runs away thinking that he has killed him. The young man, and confesses that he is the murderer and is surprised because the inspector does not know anything about his crime, and that he is going to attend his sister’s marriage, so the inspector decides to hand him over to justice.

The famous singer Carlos Ojeda has come to Seville to hire some Spanish figure to accompany him on the show to be presented in Mexico. Negotiations with Dorita, The Cadiz, fail and Carlos is about to return to empty when discovered Reyes, selling beautiful flowers with a magnificent voice.

A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem

In the mid nineteenth century, flamenco singing and dancing bring together their most loyal fans in a tablao in Andalusia where Rosarillo, an attractive singer unleashes the passions of his audience. On her wedding night, while the gypsy sings from deep emotion of her heart, her husband is murdered. Her feelings will be truncated at once, and in front of all those present, she swears revenge.

The presser of the neighborhood falls in love with the singer living in the villa next to him, while his friend falls in love with her maid. He discovers that a wealthy man is supporting her financially, he tries to compete with him by singing in the nightclub where she sings.

A story about a young architect and his friend who goes to the province to build a church Upon their arrival they notice something peculiar, it seems that the place was primarily inhabited by women they soon learn that it was due to most men enlisted and perished in the war. Lacking the manpower to build the church he started to hire women as construction workers, he then meets this particular woman.

Musical from Hong Kong directed by Fung Chi-Kong.

“Pasiya ng Langit” is the 1954 remake of “Sawing Gantimpala” (1940), now lost.

Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on.

Shh.h.h.h.h. You shouldn't tell Nenita's got a CRUSH on Manding.

The Sound of Jazz is an historic episode from the "Seven Lively Arts" anthology series featuring jazz greats in concert. Hosted by John Crosby, it offers some fascinating performances from Count Basie, Billie Holliday, Thelonious Monk and many more. This 58-minute program is a truly original and unique broadcast from CBS Studio 58 in New York on December 8, 1957.

A story about a tomboyish girl who sells street foods and a vagrant boy who met each other at Luneta.

An actress Chrisy gets tired of her onscreen partner, so the studio made a nationwide search for a new lead actor. One day Robert gets scouted by Chrisy the only problem is Robert is already in love with Trining a woman from his province.

Johnny Green conducts the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien".

A recording of the performance of the symphonic poem entitled Fairy Tale by Stanislaw Moniuszko at the ‘Ursus’ Factory in Warsaw. It took place in 1952 and was performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Witold Rowecki.

A story about a mischievous youth group.

Written by the great librettist Tong Tik-sang, and featuring Lee Tit's elegant direction and superb performances from Yam Kim-fai and Pak Suet-sin, "Butterfly and Red Pear Blossom" brings Cantonese opera to cinematic life. The film features two lovers who have never met in person but whose poetry over three years has subtly declared their unyielding love. Yam's minimalist acting style enables her to convey dynamic passion as well as step about the stage with ease and accomplish the image of a resolute, yet gentle, scholar. Pak meanwhile defies a prime minister with pride and dignity.

Ballet performed to Dukas' "The Sorceror's Apprentice".

Glorious… as his love! Inspired… as his Music!

Short film featuring the Brubeck Quartet.

A young man was prohibited by his mother to join a Combo(band) in fear of him being negatively influenced. The mother sends him to the province but as he travels he meets a bald man.

Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He finally takes a boat and practices at sea in order not to disturb anyone. His tuba-playing saves a ship from going on the rocks and he becomes a town hero.

Industrialist's son returns from the USA, where he'd been supposedly studying Nuclear Physics, when in fact he'd devoted himself to pop music, without his father's knowledge.

The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta singer Alice.

The film popularizes folk music, folk dance, and Karol Kurpiński’s piece titled "Wesele w Ojcowie". We could see dancers of the State Dance Ensemble led by Eugeniusz Papliński.

Your favorite teenage stars in a story about today's youth rollicking their way thru life.

Chintamani, a courtesan, is a devotee of Lord Vishnu. Her strong faith impresses Lord Vishnu and he decides to help her with her problems.

A proper Edwardian lady patiently endures the ever-increasing disruption to her quiet household when her Truelove gives her all the items from the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

A Chinese screen opera

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked separately, preferring to see if the score and visual track would synchronise by chance. Lye also experimented with a new Direct Film technique, drenching the filmstrip in colourful paint and marker pen.

A story about a son and his rich overbearing widow mother who's a vocal coach, one day he finds love in his mother's student.

A girl faces trouble with her family, as she loves acting and wishes to become an actress, but her mother stands in the way of this hobby. A playwright discovers her, is convinced of her talent, and promises to allow her to work in the play instead of her mother. The girl memorizes the role and discovers that her mother has memorized the role as well, as the mother dreams of the years of glory.

A story about two brothers, one deep in the underworld with his gun, his fists, and his hate the other atop the world with his songs, his music, and his beat.

The Portuguese in 16th century India plot to take over the country.

A rare musical compilation, a Finnish dance film from the early 1950s, the first performances of Latin music and dance in Finland. Rumba and samba are performed by Rytmi-Veikko, Kalevi Huuskonen and Sacy Sand. The dances are directed by Veikko Niemelä and performed by the dance couple Olavi and Eeva Nieminen.

A pseudo-documentary depicting the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, in which the Idyllwild Youth Chorus take a retreat in order to craft a ballad about their school and the various arts it helps to cultivate.