Cab Calloway Home Movie #5

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Compilation reel of 16mm color home movies of Cab Calloway and his family in Long Island, New York at Easter. The film also has footage of Calloway's tour of South America in 1951 including carnival and beach scenes in Montevideo, la Plaza Independencia, a horse racing track in Rio de Janeiro, and an airport in Puerto Rico. The film begins with wide shots of a mostly empty room with a child standing in the foreground. The camera pans around the room, placing particular emphasis on the drapes over the windows. In the next series of shots, two of Calloway's children play in front of their home and pose for the camera along with their dog. At different points, each child is shown in extreme close-up. Two of Calloway's children then appear in the backyard posing for the camera with two older, unidentified women and alone.

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