Let's Scuffle

  • January 1942
  • 3mins

  • Music
  • Starring

    Bill Robinson,

    Jeanne Bayer,

    Deanie Gordon,

    Winnie Johnson

    ...

    "Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any movie with an all-black cast, intended primarily for distribution in black neighbourhoods at a time when many American cinemas were segregated.) The song-and-dance performer here is none other than the great Bill Robinson.