- Description
Tap Dance America is a reference work of bibliographic information and does not point to digitized versions of the items described. The Library of Congress may or may not own a copy of a particular film or video. To request additional information Ask a Librarian.
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Coles and Atkins on CBS-TV / Charles "Honi" Coles [television/video]
- Title
- Coles and Atkins on CBS-TV [Television/Video]
- Performers
- Coles, Charles "Honi"
- Atkins, Charles "Cholly"
- Published/Created
- 1953-12-17
- Genre
- Television/Video
- Abstract
- "The dance team of Coles and Atkins make color TV history on the CBS television network when they appear as the opening act of the first nationwide color broadcast under the newly approved FCC standards. Following an opening address by Dr. Frank Stanton, president of CBS, Honi Coles and Charles Atkins perform one of their specialty tap dance routines, "high speed rhythm tapping", on the program, which went on the air less than hour after the FCC announced that full scale color television broadcasting had been officially approved."
- Source
- Sampson, Henry T.: Swingin' On the Etherwaves: A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television Broadcasting, 1925-1955. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press (2005).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015