Rare jazz shorts, all in 35mm prints (and some nitrate), selected and presented by UCLA Film Archives archivist Howard Hays. Included are: Bit of Jazz, probably the first jazz film, a “Kellum Talking Picture” featuring the Van Eps Trio (1922, 3 mins); Paramount Pictorial, with Duke Ellington, Baron Lee and Cab Calloway (1933, 6-7 mins); Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway provides accompaniment to Betty Boop in Max Fleischer's cartoon (1932, 7 mins); Bob Crosby and His Orchestra, featuring the “Bobcat” sidemen (1938, 10 mins); Dinah, the Mills Bros. in a Max Fleischer “bouncing ball” Screen Song (1933, 7 mins); Artie Shaw's Class in Swing, with vocals by Helen Forrest and drumming by a young Buddy Rich (1939, 10 mins); Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, with vocalist June Christy (1946, 10 mins); Harlem Varieties, featuring Lionel Hampton, Larry Darnell, Nat King Cole, Martha Davis, Ruth Brown, the Delta Rhythm Boys and comedian Nipsey Russell (1955, 30-40 mins); The Old Man of the Mountain, Cab Calloway and Betty Boop (1933, 7 mins); and Boogie Woogie, starring Robert Benchley and featuring The Hollywood Jitterbugs (1945, 20 mins, Technicolor Nitrate).