The Cradle is Rocking (good print)

The Cradle is Rocking was directed by the talented young filmmaker Frank DeCola who died early 1970s, a few years after this film was made. The film was part of a United States Information Agency's (USIA) "Young Filmmakers Program" started in the early days of the Kennedy Administration under the direction of George Stevens Jr. This program was a precursor of the American Film Institute.
The producer of the film was Athony Loeb and the cinematographer was Tom Davenport. Davenport founded and directs the www.folkstreams.net project and he had an old print of the film that had been stored in his basement but that print was damaged as you can see at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnJSjAqri2o .

This print which belongs to Frank DeCola's nephew Phil DeCola, is the only other print we have been able to locate. Phil has donated the print to the Folkstreams archive in the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina where it will be preserved.

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[46professor]

The film was shot in 1967. Very nice to see it here. Thanks!

[busessuck1]

This is the best documentary I've seen on Jazz... amazingly executed

Apart from Joe Nicholas who I know about... have any of the early musicians he mentioned working with been recorded?

[orson15]

Kid Sheik was a friend of mine (whose friend WASN'T he??), and it's great to see him again. Thanks so much for this.

[cdvicious]

remarkble film, what a great man he was .

He really undersstood

[BTNODrums]

Marvellous! What a jewel! Thanks to everyone involved in making this short and making it available like this.

[lacroixrecords]

Fabulous!

[yammayammaman]

Best print I've seen of ths

[hakanros]

Great piece of documentation! Thank you!

Hakan