Boogie Woogie Dream

BoogieWoogie Dream 1944 is an independently made short film musical, directed by Hanus Burger, starring Lena Horne, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Teddy Wilson and his orchestra. It is a significant film in the history of jazz for its early glimpse of Lena Horne in her second film and as the only film of boogiewoogie piano masters Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson.

The Weathercoops fall asleep, and this leads to a dream where the kitchen maid has gotten her evening gown she introduces Ammons and Johnson, who play Boogie Woogie Dream. Teddy Wilson then conjures up his band and backs up the maid, with some help from Johnson, on the song Unlucky Woman. This is followed by a jam with Wilsons band, illustrated by a montage. Ammons, Johnson and the kitchen maid are then seen sleeping, propped up at the piano the phone rings and wakes them up. Mr. Weathercoop ends up with the call, and afterward gives the others the offer that they have been dreaming about.Hanus or Hannes Burger 19091990 was a Czech documentary filmmaker who had fled to the United States in the wake of the Anschluss footage he had taken when the Germans invaded Prague was incorporated into the acclaimed documentary film Crisis 1939 film, which Burger codirected with Herbert Kline and Alexander Hammid. Crisis was widely acclaimed in the United States, and its success of helped propel Burger through a long string of leftwing documentaries, U.S. War Department films and other kinds of official documentary work throughout the 1940s. Boogie Woogie Dream was a side project, inspired by the musicians at Caf Society in New York, a popular nightspot and frequent location for live radio remotes it served as the flash point for the Boogie Woogie craze in New York City. ........

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