Leonard Anderson

Leonard Anderson was an American film editor and film director, and he co-owned a film production company. Anderson's short films of African-American musical acts include footage of Anna Mae Winburn with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm,^[1] Lucky Millinder and his orchestra,^[2] and Henri Woode.

Around late 1948, he founded the Video Varieties Corp., a film production company with George Goman, which was a predecessor to the West Coast Sound Studios.^[3][4] In late 1948, Anderson directed a series of short films for the band the Adrian Rollini Trio (Adrian Rollini, George Hnida, and Allan Hanlon).^[5] He edited the popular television show The Honeymooners in the 1950s.^[6]

Filmography

Director

• Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra (1946).
• Adventure (1946)
• Big Fat Mamas (1946), a "Soundie" cut from the film Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra^[7]
• Runaway (1946)
• Hello Bill (1946)^[2]
• I Cried for You (1946)
• I Want a Man (1946)
• I Want to Talk About You (1946)
• Love in Syncopation (1946)^[8]
• That Man of Mine (1946)
• Jump Children (1946), featuring the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
• Lonesome Lover Blues (1946)
• Mistletoe (1946)
• She's Crazy with Heat (1946)
• That Man of Mine (1946)
• You Call it Madness (1946)^[9]
• Hello Bill (1946), produced by William D. Alexander^[10] one of three soundies cut from Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra^[2]
• Jivin' in Be-Bop (1947)
• Harlem Dynamite, a 30-minute short edited from the feature Jivin' in Be-Bop
• Rhythm in a Riff (1947)
• I Want to Talk About You, a 30-minute short edited from Rhythm in a Riff^[11]
• Lonesome Road Blues (1949), soundie of Shorty Warren and his cowboy orchestra^[12]
• Lonsesome Lover Blues, excerpted from Rhythm in a Riff^[13]

Editor

• Whispering City (1947)^{[14][better source needed]}
• Reet, Petite and Gone (1947)
• Lamp Post Favorites (1948)^[15]
• Citizen Saint, a Catholic documentary
• Singing in the Dark (1956), about a Holocaust surviving singer in New York City who has amnesia