Jazz on the Screen
A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker

Acknowledgments

Database was created by David Meeker and edited by Samuel Brylawski, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Data conversion (from database to METS) was performed by Morgan Cundiff, Network Development and MARC Standards Office (NDMSO).

Data conversion (from database to PDF) was performed by Michael Ferrando (NDMSO).

Technical functionality and programming of the site was performed by Corey Keith (NDMSO).

Web site design and user interface was created by Elizabeth F. Miller (NDMSO) based on user-centered design principles.

Additional thanks go to Susan Clermont, Jon Newsom, Jan Lauridsen, Johnnye Egnot, Diane Kresh, Deb Thomas, Barry Wheeler, Alan Gevinson, David Francis, Gregory Lukow, and the National Film Preservation Board.

More About David Meeker

• British. Born Hammersmith, London, 22nd December 1935.
• Private education.
• Royal Air Force 1953-1957 reaching rank of Corporal Technician (Airframes).
• Joined British Film Institute staff 1961 managing Central Booking Agency until early 1980s supplying films and programming advice to film societies, schools, colleges and universities and to the National Film Theatre in London. Transferred to National Film Archive as Keeper of Fiction Film until retirement in December 2000.
• Distinguished Mention BFI Special Awards 1981 for work on jazz and cinema.
• Bronze medal from the Polish Jazz Society 1981.
• M.B.E. from H.M. The Queen in 1997 New Year's Honours for contribution to work of National Film Archive.

Over a 40-year period devised and/or curated numerous film programmes (e.g. "The Hollywood Composer", "Rodgers and Hart", "Gérard Philipe", "Danish Cinema", "MGM", "Bernard Vorhaus","Jean Gabin", "Duke Ellington", "William Wellman") and celebrity stage presentations with directors (e.g. Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, Monte Hellman, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Budd Boetticher, Roy Ward Baker, Ronald Neame), with actors (e.g. Valerie Hobson, Warren Oates, Jean Kent, Roger Moore, Anna Neagle), with composers (e.g. Dimitri Tiomkin, Miklós Rósza, Michel Legrand, Lennie Niehaus), with jazz musicians (e.g. Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson, Bud Shank, Bill Holman) at the National Film Theatre, at many of the BFI's Regional Film Theatres, at cinémathèques and festivals in most European countries and in the United States in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Park City and was a film selector for the London Film Festival for 37 years from 1965. In the 1970s began specialising in music on film working closely on presentations for cinémathèques, film festivals, tv and radio programmes, magazines and record releases in the UK, in Spain, Germany, France and in Denmark. To date has published three editions (in 1972, 1977 and 1981) of his book, JAZZ IN THE MOVIES, and is currently compiling a jazz and blues filmography for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Devised and edited the book MISSING BELIEVED LOST: THE GREAT BRITISH FILM SEARCH (1992) and contributed to the volumes 100 FILM DA SALVARE by Fernaldo Di Giammatteo (Milano, 1978), THE MOST IMPORTANT AND MISAPPRECIATED AMERICAN FILMS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE CINEMA (Bruxelles, 1978), ELOKUVAN ILOKIRJA by Peter von Bagh (Helsinki, 1990) and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH FILM by Brian McFarlane (London, 2003) and, over the years, has written for The Guardian, Sight and Sound, The Monthly Film Bulletin, Time Out, Film, Music Business, The Daily Telegraph and for several European newspapers, film and jazz publications. Co-founder in 1992 and editorial consultant on the British Film Institute's series of books published under the heading BFI Film Classics - some 80 volumes to date.

1959 Film -- MARCH TO ALDERMASTON On-screen participant
1963 Film -- IT HAPPENED HERE Bit part as man arrested under Section 18B
1973 TV -- PARKINSON: DUKE ELLINGTON Clip research
1973 Audio -- JOHN PLAYER STAGE INTERVIEW: MONTE HELLMAN Interviewer
1973 Film -- À PROPOS DE NICE (1930) Music supervisor for BBC TV presentation
1974 TV -- OMNIBUS: OSCAR PETERSON AND ANDRÉ PREVIN Clip research
1975 Film -- WINSTANLEY Extra
1978 Audio -- JOHN PLAYER STAGE INTERVIEW: JOHN WILLIAMS Interviewer
1982 Film -- BLACK WAX Acknowledgement
1991 Audio -- GUARDIAN STAGE INTERVIEW: MICHEL LEGRAND Interviewer
1992 TV -- THE LATE SHOW: BRITAIN'S MISSING MOVIE HERITAGE On-screen participant
1994 Video -- GUARDIAN STAGE INTERVIEW: BUDD BOETTICHER Interviewer
1996 TV -- LE TRAVAIL D'UN CINÉASTE JULIEN DUVIVIER Acknowledgement
1997 Film -- CHARLES MINGUS: TRIUMPH OF THE UNDERDOG Acknowledgement
1998 Film -- A SALUTE TO SIR JOHN MILLS C.B.E. Director
1998 Audio -- GUARDIAN STAGE INTERVIEW: VAL GUEST Interviewer
1999 Audio -- GUARDIAN STAGE INTERVIEW: ROY WARD BAKER Interviewer
1999 Audio -- GUARDIAN STAGE INTERVIEW: JEAN KENT Interviewer
2001 TV -- OMNIBUS: FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM Acknowledgement
2002 Film -- CHICO HAMILTON DANCING TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER Acknowledgement
2002 Film -- THE TRAMP AND THE DICTATOR Acknowledgement
2003 Film -- THE LAST OF THE FIRST Acknowledgement
2003 TV Series -- THE BLUES A MUSICAL JOURNEY episode PIANO BLUES Special thanks.

December 2005.