Syncopation

Adolphe Menjou, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville. From before WWI through Prohibition, the Great Depression and up until the start of WWII, America’s music carried people through good and bad times. New Orleans singer Kit Latimer and Johnny Schumacher bring back their own ideas and personal differences about America’s syncopated music—ragtime, jazz, swing, blues, boogie woogie and more. 1942/b&w/88 min/NR/fullscreen.