Minstrel Days

Minstrel Days

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 6, 1941

Runtime

0h 20m

Genres

Music, History

Original Title

Minstrel Days

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Director

Bobby Connolly

Description

This Vitaphone musical featurette features a minstrel show, with traditional interlocutor and Mr. Bones, doing many old time songs (mostly Stephen Foster) with Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in blackface, via stock footage from earlier Warners films, inserted doing some of their trademark songs. This short was reissued November of 1946 and again in September of 1953.