Title: | Pep and Personality |
Artist: | Tommy Christian and His Orchestra |
Date: | c. 1931 |
Material: | Shellac |
Dimensions: | 16 in. (40 cm) |
Company: | International 16mm Pictures, Inc. |
Location: | New York, United States |
Soundtrack for a 16 mm film. This disc is center start, with the arrow indicating where to place the needle to synchronize with the film. The complete soundtrack is two discs. International 16mm Pictures, Inc. was a distribution company started in 1931 by Rudolph Mayer, brother of Louis B. Mayer of MGM, with the intention of releasing “suitable talking-picture subjects for home, commercial and industrial use” (Kelly 1931, p. 508).
Tommy Christian was a moderately successful band leader from 1924 to 1935. Pep and Personality was one of two sound films featuring his band (the other was Howdy Broadway) (Rothstein 2019, pp. 4–5).
News and Comment: New Film Organization.Radio News, Dec. 1931.
Tommy Christian and His Orchestra.Vintage Jazz Mart, 2019. PDF.