Interview with blues musician Jesse Fuller at his home in Oakland, California. Silence [00:00]
Inaudible [00:13]
Meeting fan in Piccadilly Circus [01:35]
Working with Douglas Fairbanks [02:55]
Girlfriend [04:10]
Copies of his photographs for museum, Hank movie dog [07:30]
Hank the movie dog [09:30]
Jack and Mary Pickford [10:05]
Movie set concession stand and shoeshining [10:35]
Buck Jones [10:55]
William Farnum and Dustin Farnum [11:07]
Working with Douglas Fairbanks [12:32]
William Farnum, trainhopping to California [13:00]
Fodella and his basement workshop [15:10]
William Farnum [16:09]
William S. Hart in Tumbleweeds (1925) [18:02]
Performing for Douglas Fairbanks [20:40]
Living in Los Angeles [22:08]
Cleaning restaurant in exchange for room and board [23:03]
Selling whittled wooden snakes for money [23:26]
Fight with roomer from Nova Scotia calling him "nigger"[25:26]
Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey [27:04]
Dancing the chicken wheel dance for Douglas Fairbanks [27:36]
Mental abilities since his stroke [31:02]
William Farnum and Dustin Farnum [32:23]
Poster for Jesse Fuller event at the Oakland Museum [34:26]
Charlie Chaplin [36:07]
Mary Wilma [?] photograph [37:30]
Copyright to song [38:33]
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry [40:02]
Leadbelly and Billie Holiday [40:47]
Reverend Gary Davis and Merle Travis [42:02]
Health issues and stroke [44:00]
Railroad watch [45:05]
Magazine articles about Jesse [48:02]
Playing vinyl record, "Drop out song," musicians Jesse likes and dislikes [50:36]
Paid $50 to go to jail for another man [59:38]
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