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Eddie Condon in Color, 1962

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Marc Myers
Apr 20, 2016
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In the early 1960's, the American Goodyear Tire Co. commissioned a series of short jazz-performance films as part of a promotional campaign. (Why Apple, Google or Facebook don't do the same today with classic jazz, rock and soul artists is beyond me.) Goodyear's jazz movies were filmed in color by multiple cameras on 35mm and the sound was recorded on p…

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