- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Louis Armstrong arriving at an airport, and joking with reporters about his recent illness, July 2, 1959
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1959-07-02
- Subject:
- Jazz musicians
New York International Airport - People:
- Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Armstrong, Lucille, 1914-1983
Schiff, Alexander, -1990
Beiderbecke, Bix, 1903-1931
Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
United States, New York, Queens County, 40.65749, -73.83875 - Medium:
- news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from July 2, 1959, Louis Armstrong arrives at New York International Airport, and jokes with reporters about his recent illness. The clips begin with Louis Armstrong laughing and bowing, holding his trumpet, as he disembarks from an airplane. He is followed by his wife, Lucille Armstrong, and a white man who is probably Louis Armstrong's personal physician, Dr. Alexander Schiff. In the following clip, Louis Armstrong laughs and jokes with unidentified reporters, while Lucille Armstrong stands beside him. Schiff appears to standing behind Louis Armstrong. Other unidentified white men, some of whom are probably reporters, also appear in the clips. An unidentified reporter says to Louis Armstrong, "About two days ago, they practically had you in the cemetery ..." Louis Armstrong replies, "No, it must have been longer than that. It must have been longer than that, but the trouble was, Sidney Bechet and Bix tried to get me up there to play first chair, but ... they didn't really want to pay me nothing but union scales, it seemed." An unidentified reporter then asks Louis Armstrong, "You didn't hear Gabriel blowing his horn, did you, Louis?" Louis Armstrong replies, "Well, I didn't get that far...." The next clip shows an unidentified white man laughing at Louis Armstrong's response. The next clip shows Louis Armstrong, Lucille Armstrong, and Schiff once more. An unidentified reporter then says, "Well, I think Dr. Schiff said at one time that maybe you just blew yourself out for a while. Didn't you, Doctor?" Louis Armstrong replies, "No, it ain't that. Sometime, you know, you just put a little grease on that Cadillac, it'll run another another five hundred miles."
Supporting information was taken from the following sources: Jazz. Part 9. The Adventure, transcript. Web. 8 August 2016. , 26 June 1959:5. Web. 4 August 2016. New York Times, 3 July 1959:6. Web. 4 August 2016.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Clip number: wsbn40061 - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn40061
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn40061
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn40061/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn40061, WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Louis Armstrong arriving at an airport, and joking with reporters about his recent illness, July 2, 1959, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0847, 23:21/24:06, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga.
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 1 min.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
