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ST. REGIS STARTS SECOND SOON

"St. Regis Pictures, producing a series for Associated Exhibitors, will beg=
in work on its
second release, "Headlines," in ten days. Production at Tec-Art Studios."
So production would have started around 6 April 1925. It would likely have =
continued into
May, perhaps June.=A0

Tec-Art was located in the studios that Norma and Constance Talmadge had us=
ed from
1917-1921. It was on East 48th Street in Manhattan. Since HEADLINES was an =
East=A0
Coast production, it's not prima facie implausible that Ellington's orchest=
ra might have=20
taken time=A0to appear in it.=A0

Ironically, Lee DeForest was also using the former Talmadge facility at the=
 time to
produce Phonofilm shorts. That isn't--by any stretch--evidence that Ellingt=
on appeared
in one; it's just an interesting coincidence.=A0
(See HOLLYWOOD ON THE HUDSON by Richard Koszarski for more on NYC film
production in the 1920s. Tec-Art moved to California in 1926.)
-HA


--- On Tue, 4/30/13, David Palmquist <davidpalmquist at telus.net> wrote:

From: David Palmquist <davidpalmquist at telus.net>
Subject: [78-L] Duke Ellington on film, 1925?
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 3:02 PM



Hi Joe

Since 1925 was in the silent film era,=A0 there won't be a soundtrack=20
to the film.=A0 There is some information about the film at=20
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/Headlines1925.html

A number of people are interested in building the body of knowledge=20
regarding Ellington.=A0 The late Dr. Klaus Stratemann of Germany=20
published his 780 page Duke Ellington Day by Day and Film by Film in=20
1992, starting with 1929 and the earliest known Ellington=20
film.=A0 Since then, the late Ken Vail published a two volume Duke's=20
Diary, building on Dr. Stratemann's work.=A0 Dr. Stratemann did not go=20
earlier than 1929 because his interest was film, and he didn't see=20
the need because the late Mark Tucker had already published=20
Ellington, The Early Years.=A0 Probably 5 or 10 new Ellington=20
biographies and studies have been published so far this century, and=20
I understand another one is expected to be published this=20
year.=A0 People have worked for decades=A0 to develop Ellington's=20
itinerary, and new engagements and appearances surface regularly,=20
thanks to online tools that were not available in the days of Tucker,=20
Stratemann or Vail or their predecessors.

Ken Steiner discovered a whole field of research that was unknown to,=20
or ignored by, the researchers who preceded him, the Afro-American=20
press.=A0 Often he finds Ellington events mentioned in the black=20
newspapers that were not reported by the white papers.

The film, if it can be established to include Ellington, would=20
demonstrate Ellington appeared on film earlier than previously=20
known.=A0 Assuming the studio records can be found, we would know which=20
musicians were in the movie with Duke, when and where it was filmed,=20
and probably even the amounts paid to the musicians.

Is it important?=A0 Yes, I think so.

David Palmquist
Delta BC Canada
http://ellingtonweb.ca
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