| Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy #1 In the genre of a 1950's U.S. propaganda scare film, Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy # 1 combines cutting edge music by the critically acclaimed, multi-talented, songwriter/ composer/music producer, Frank Fitzpatrick with footage from Soundies, a little known American film art form produced in the early 1940's. A
precursor to today's music videos, Soundies were short 16mm films which accompanied
the popular songs of the day on jukeboxes designed to play them. For the drop
of a nickel, a back-lit, black and white, 3 minute, high quality, amazingly choreographed,
dance film would appear before the viewer's eyes with the song selection playing
over it. Nearly 2000 Soundies were made, but the form never became popular and
they soon disappeared. Working with a Los Angeles archivist who has collected
1300 of these prints, Fitzpatrick has created an amazing short film integrating
rare footage from a number of soundies with cutting edge music, incorporating
a story line that echoes Reefer Madness and other scare films produced
by the U.S. government in the 1950's. With the film Jungle Jazz: Public
Enemy #1, many people will get to see for the first time ever, this
amazing, little-known and all-but-lost American art form.
WINNER!!!
Awards & Screenings: (for
Best Short Film) The
world’s most respected independent film festival. Other festivals that have honored the film include: Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia Message To Man Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel North By Northeast Film Festival, Toronto, Canada Norwegian Short Film Festival, Norway Brisbane International Film Festival, Australia World Film Festival, Montreal, Canada Hawaii International Film Festival, USA Maui Int’l. Short Film Festival, USA Athens International Film Festival, Greece Brief Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol, UK Oslo International Film Festival, Norway Los Angeles Int’l. Short Film Festival, USA Santa Barbara Film Festival, USA Puerto Vallarta International Film Festival, Mexico Non-competition screenings include: Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah Cannes Int’l Film Festival, France
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