Keep Cool

Keep Cool

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Keep Cool

1971

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Animation

Overview

An animation (long before there were such things) for Oscar Brown Jr’s track “But I Was Cool”, from his 1961 debut album Sin & Soul. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

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Oscar Brown Jr.

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