On October 14, the website published a YouTube video with a colorized version of the 1943 RKO film Duke Ellington & His Orchestra. Here is another colorized version of an Ellington film. It is his first film Black and Tan Fantasy from 1929.
This silent movie was produced by RKO and written and directed by Dudley Murphy, who before had done St. Louis Blues with Bessie Smith starring. In Duke Ellington-Day by Day and by Film, Klaus Strateman considers that the film was produced circa August 12 to August 16, 1929.
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