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Documentaries and Film Footage
JAZZ
“The Thelonious Monk Quartet.” Jazz 625. BBC, 1965
“The Thelonious Monk Quartet.” Jazz 625. BBC, 1966
Monk in Oslo. Directed by Harald Heide-Steen, Jr., 1966
Monk. Directed by Michael Blackwood, 1968
Monk in Europe. Directed by Michael Blackwood, 1968
Monk in Berlin. 1973
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. Directed by Charlotte Zwerin, 1988
Het Monk Kwartet
Jazz Icons: Thelonious Monk Live in ’66. TdK, 2006
Masters of American Music: Thelonious Monk—American Composer. Directed by Matthew Sieg, 2009
Solo Piano in Berlin ’69: Monk Plays Ellington. DVD Jazz Shots, 2010
Masters of American Music: Thelonious Monk—American Composer. Directed by Matthew Sieg, 2010
“The Sound of Jazz.” Seven Lively Arts. CBS, 1957
Jazz Pour Tous! Directed by Serge Leroy and Paul Roland, 1964
“Hawk at the Town Hall.” Jazz 625. BBC, 1964
“Duke Ellington in Concert.” Jazz 625. BBC, 1964
Ellington in Europe. BBC, 1965
Ellington in Europe 2. BBC, 1965
“Teddy Wilson.” Jazz at the Philharmonic. BBC, 1967
“Miles Davis Quintet.” Jazz Scene at Ronnie Scott’s. BBC, 1969
“Johnny Dankworth.” Jazz Scene at Ronnie Scott’s. BBC, 1969
Jazz from Montreux. BBC, 1977
Last of the Blue Devils: The Kansas City Jazz Story. Directed by Bruce Ricker, 1979
Let’s Get Lost. Directed by Bruce Weber, 1988
Slim Gaillard’s Civilisation. Directed by Anthony Wall, 1988
“Dizzy Gillespie.” Jazz 625. BBC, restored version 1990
Jazz. Directed by Ken Burns, 2000
Norman Granz Presents: Improvisation—Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and More. DVD Eagle Rock, 2007
ROTHSCHILD FAMILY
The House of Rothschild. Directed by Alfred L. Werker, 1934
Die Rothschilds: Aktien auf Waterloo. Directed by Erich Waschneck, 1940
“Debutantes.” Tonight. BBC, 1962
A Rothschild and His Red Gold. BBC, 1974
David Dimbleby Interviews Miriam Rothschild. BBC, 1982
“Miriam Rothschild.” Women of Our Century. BBC, date?
Mastermind. BBC, May 21, 1989
RACE AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
Panorama 161: Carnegie Course. BBC
“Romance Is Dead, Long Live Romance: Marjorie Proops.” One Pair of Eyes. BBC
A Study of Educational Inequalities in Southern California. National Archives and Records Administration, 1936
The World at War. FDR Presidential Library, 1942
The Negro Soldier. National Archives and Records Administration, 1945
The Plantation System in Southern Life. Coronet Instructional Films, 1950
The Home Economics Story. Iowa State Teachers’ College, 1951
Our Cities Must Fight. U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1951
Third Avenue El. Carson Davidson, 1955
The Dynamic American City. Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1956
Palmour Street. Georgia Department of Public Health, 1957
Eye to Eye: London to New York—A Tale of Two Cities. BBC, 1957
In the Suburbs. Redbook Magazine, 1957
The Black and White Minstrel Show. BBC, January 28, 1961
“Some of My Best Friends Are White.” Man Alive. BBC, 1966
“The Friendly Invasion,” parts 1 to 3. Omnibus. BBC, 1975
Britain in the Thirties. BBC, 1983
SELECTED FEATURE FILM PRODUCTIONS IN WHICH THELONIOUS MONK OR HIS MUSIC APPEAR
Jazz on a Summer’s Day. Directed by Aram Avakian and Bert Stern, 1959
Les liaisons dangereuses. Directed by Roger Vadim, 1959
Heads. Directed by Peter Gidal, 1969
The Homecoming. Directed by Peter Hall, 1973
Lenny. Directed by Bob Fosse, 1974
The Marseille Contract. Directed by Robert Parrish, 1974
Sven Klangs Kvintett. Directed by Stellan Olsson, 1976
’Round Midnight. Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, 1986
A Great Day in Harlem. Directed by Jean Bach, 1994
Archives and Libraries
Barbara Ghika Archive
The Rothschild Archive, Waddesdon Manor
The Rothschild Archive, N. M. Rothschild & Sons, London
Miriam Rothschild Archive
Nica de Koenigswarter Archive
BBC Archive
British Library
Colindale Newspaper Archive
David Redfern Library
Downbeat magazine
Esquire magazine
Express Group
Gaston Eve
General Register Office, UK
George Wein Archive
Hudson County Superior Court
Jazz Archive at Duke University, library.duke.edu/rubenstein/collections/jazzindex.html
Library of Congress
London Library
Marcus Harrison Archive
National Records and Records Administration
New York County Supreme Court
New Yorker magazine
New York Times
Pathé News
Prelinger Archives, www.archive.org/details/prelinger
The Times
Time magazine
TS Monk Archive
William P. Gottlieb Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Wilmington Superior Court
Photographic Credits
col1.1 Rothschild Archive
1.1 Victor Rothschild
1.2 Christian and Michael Blackwood, Straight, No Chaser, Warner Bros.
2.1 Gemma Levine/HultonArchive/Getty Images
2.2 Hannah Rothschild
2.3 Walter Rothschild Collection, Natural History Museum
3.1 Walter Rothschild Collection, Natural History Museum
3.2 Christine Strasser
3.3 Hannah Rothschild
3.4 Rothschild Archive
4.1 Rothschild Archive
4.2 Rothschild Archive
4.3 Rothschild Archive
4.4 Rothschild Archive
5.1 The Granger Collection/Topfoto
5.2 akg-images
5.3 Painting by M. Oppenheimer © Bildarchiv Pisarek/akg-images
5.4 akg-images
6.4 Robert Stainforth/Alamy
6.5 The National Trust
6.6 The National Trust
6.7 David Henson
7.1 Rothschild Archive
8.1 Carl Mydans/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
8.2 Private collection
8.3 Miriam Rothschild
8.4 Getty Images
9.1 The Advertising Archives
9.2 Private collection
9.3 The New York Times
10.1 Daily Express
10.2 ©2012 Philippe Biron/Getty Images
11.1 Rothschild Archive
11.2 Rothschild Archive
12.1 Press Association
12.2 Rothschild Archive
13.1 Getty Images
13.2 Hannah Rothschild
14.1 Rothschild Archive
14.2 Private collection
15.1 Rick Shupper/Ambient Images
15.2 © Ben Bacon
15.3 Getty Images
15.4 Marcus Harrison
16.1 William Gottlieb/Redferns/Getty Images
16.2 William Gottlieb/Redferns/Getty Images
16.3 Getty Images
16.4 Redferns/Getty Images
16.5 Christian and Michael Blackwood, Straight, No Chaser
16.6 Marcus Harrison
17.1 Christian and Michael Blackwood, Straight, No Chaser
18.1 Frank Briggs Collection/Getty Images
18.2 Bettman/Corbis
18.3 The New York Times
18.4 Mirror
19.1 François Paudras
19.2 and 19.3 Hannah Rothschild
19.4 Hannah Rothschild
19.5 Walter Rothschild/Natural History Museum
19.6 © Ben Martin/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
20.1 Press Association
21.1 The New York Times
21.2 Associated Newspapers/Rex Features
21.3 Private collection
21.4 Val Wilmer
22.1 Private collection
22.2 The Advertising Archives
22.3 Michael Ochs/Getty Images
23.1 Ben Martin/Time & Life Images/Getty Images
23.2 Private collection
A Note About the Author
Hannah Rothschild is a writer and director whose documentaries have appeared at film festivals including Telluride and Tribeca. She conceived and directed The Jazz Baroness, a film about her great-aunt and Thelonious Monk, which was broadcast by BBC and HBO in 2009. She has written for British Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Independent and The Spectator. She is vice president of the Hay Literary Festival and trustee of the National Gallery and Waddesdon Manor.
www.hannahrothschild.com
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