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["Louis Armstrong: "Before the Second Set" with Akin Babatunde]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during actor Akin Babatundes "Louis Armstrong: Before the Second Set" performance on November 14th and 15th 1997 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The footage shows Babatunde portraying Louis Armstrong in a one man show. The play is set in an old jazz club in Newark New Jersey.

Date: November 1997

Duration: 47 minutes 41 seconds

Creator: Babtunde, Akin & Nam, Siri Sat

Item Type: Video

Location: 32.774281 -96.797546

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[Akin Babatunde as Louis Armstrong broadcast clip]

Video footage provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters of a Channel 8 broadcast clip showing a news story on the upcoming performance of Akin Babatunde at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre in November of 1997. The footage shows clips of the actor impersonating music icon Louis Armstrong with the song "What a Wonderful World" along with an interview on his process of successfully becoming the character.

Date: November 13, 1997

Duration: 2 minutes 01 second

Creator: Channel 8