article_snippet.sent: (CNN)With help from some filmmakers, Alice Barker went back in time.
article_snippet.sent: Alice Barker was a dancer in such New York nightspots as the Cotton Club and the Cafe Zanzibar in the 1930s and 1940s, part of chorus lines that entertained alongside notables including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Frank Sinatra.
article_snippet.sent: There were motion pictures made of Alice Barker, but Alice Barker had never seen any of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Frank Sinatra.
article_snippet.sent: Moreover, Alice Barker photographs and memorabilia had all been lost over the years.
article_snippet.sent: So Alice Barker had never seen Alice Barker actually dancing -- until now.
article_snippet.sent: Mark Cantor of jazz-on-film.com and some volunteers put together a video of "soundies" -- early music videos -- and showed Mark Cantor of jazz-on-film.com and some volunteers to Alice Barker at the nursing home where Alice Barker lives.
article_snippet.sent: a dancer in such New York nightspots as the Cotton Club and the Cafe Zanzibar was delighted.
article_snippet.sent: It's just fabulous," Alice Barker said.
highlights_snippet.sent: Alice Barker was a dancer in the 1930s and '40s .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Thanks to filmmakers, Alice Barker -- now 102 -- finally saw Alice Barker dance .