( CNN ) With help from some filmmakers , 102-year-old Alice Barker went back in time . 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 . There were motion pictures made of Barker , but she had never seen any of them . Moreover , her photographs and memorabilia had all been lost over the years . So she had never seen herself actually dancing -- until now . Mark Cantor of jazz-on-film.com and some volunteers put together a video of `` soundies '' -- early music videos -- and showed them to Barker at the nursing home where she lives . The ageless dancer was delighted . `` It 's just fabulous , '' she said .
Alice ##bell was a dancer in the 1930s and early 1940s . Thanks to filmmakers , Barker -- now deceased -- finally saw herself dance .