Film clips from Jazz Ball

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Film clips from the musical documentary Jazz Ball. It consists of a single reel of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical sound. It consists of archival footage of numerous jazz and vaudeville performers and opens with actress Betty Hutton singing and dancing to "The Dipsy Doodle" as Vincent Lopez's band plays behind her. In another scene, Isham Jones and his band performs "Second Hungarian Rhapsody.

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