The Cradle is Rocking
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Film by
Frank DeCola
Produced by Anthony Loeb
Cinematographer: Tom Davenport
Sound: Nigel Noble
Editing: Frank DeCola
Copyright:
12 minutes, Black and White
Original format: 35mm, 1968
Distributor: Not in distribution
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We are looking for a good print of this important film on New Orleans jazz. This full length version 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. We have tried to find the film in catalogs in the Library of Congress and elsewhere with no luck.