The Soundies #6

There are very few soundies featuring country blues singers. This 16 minute film, Low Light and Blue Smoke, was directed by Jean Delire in 1956. Big Bill Broonzy performs four songs, "When Did You Leave Heaven?," "Just a Dream," the instrumental "House Rent Stomp" and "Saturday Night Blues" in a Belgian night club. Its artistic photography won it the Silver Bear award for a short documentary at the 1957 Berlin Film Festival.