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There were a handful of short Jazz films made in the late 1920s and early 1930s. These films were usually one or two reelers, and were shown as shorts before the feature film. |
| Title | Starring | Year |
| Ben Bernie and All The Lads | Ben Bernie and his Orchestra | 1924 or 1925 |
| Pep and Personality | Tommy Christian and his Orchestra | 1927 |
| Carnival Nights In Paris | Henry Halstead and his Orchestra | 1927 |
| Reb Spikes and his Follies Entertainers | Reb Spikes | 1927 |
| Fred Waring And His Pennsylvanians | Fred Waring And His Pennsylvanians | 1927 |
| St. Louis Blues | Bessie Smith | 1929 |
| Black And Tan Fantasy | Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra | 1929 |
| The Opry House | Mound City Blue Blowers | 1929 |
| Syncopation | Waring's Pennsylvanians | 1929 |
| Grace Johnston and the Indiana Five | Grace Johnston and the Indiana Five | 1929 |
| Is Everybody Happy? | Ted Lewis | 1929 |
| Red Nichols and his Five Pennies | Red Nichols and his Five Pennies | 1929 |
| How Can I Love You? | Seger Ellis and his Embassy Club Orchestra | 1929 |
| After Seben | Chick Webb and his Orchestra | 1929 |
| Check And Double Check | Duke Ellington | 1930 |
| King Of Jazz | Paul Whiteman | 1930 |
| The Happiness Remedy | Ted Lewis | 1931 |
| The Big Broadcast | Bing Crosby and Eddie Lang, Cab Calloway, The Boswell Sisters, The Mills Brothers | 1932 |
| Rhapsody In Black And Blue | Louis Armstrong | 1932 |
| I Heard | Don Redman | 1933 |
| Smash Your Baggage | Elmer Snowden's Small's Paradise Orchestra | 1933 |
| Symphony In Black | Duke Ellington and his Orchestra | 1935 |
| Jammin' At The Margins: Jazz And The American Cinema, by Krin Gabbard, University of Chicago Press, 1996 |
