The Cradle is Rocking. Beginning of Tom Davenport's old print
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Channel: folkstreamer · 2009 · Travel & Events
We are looking for a good print of this important film on New Orleans jazz. This excerpt from the opening minutes of the 12 minute film shows the damage on the only print we have of it. The film was directed by Frank DeCola who died in the early 1970s. Frank was a talented filmmaker and composer and was enlisted in a program run by George Stevens Jr. during the Kennedy years. That program sponsored young filmmakers to make films for the United States Information Service, for showing abroad in USIA libraries. Tom Davenport was the cameraman on the project and it was shot in B&W 35mm film. Anthony Loeb was the producer. This print is from Tom Davenport's collection and as you see, it is in bad shape.
