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3 mars 2007 · Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein: Directed by Chris Lamson. With Michael Feinstein, Mark Cantor, Stan Ridgway, George Duke. Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies. First appearing in 1941, these three minute black-and-white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like Duke ...
A soundie is a three-minute American musical film displaying a performance. Soundies were produced between 1940 and 1946 and have been referred to as "precursors to music videos ". [1] Soundies exhibited a variety of musical genres in an effort to draw a broad audience.
A documentary and showcase of the short black-and-white musical films on Panoram machines. These films and exhibitions demonstrated the innovation of getting these songs and performances out to a wide-ranging audience.
The Soundies helped launch the careers of Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Liberace, and Dorothy Dandridge, among others. Viewed for a dime through a special machine called a Panoram, a movie jukebox, these forerunners to the music video could be seen in nightclubs, roadhouses, restaurants and other public venues across the U.S.
First appearing in 1941, these three minute black-and-white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, The Mills Brothers, Les Paul, Cab Calloway, and Fats Waller.
Formed by the Mills Publishing Company in 1940, these music videos of the day takes us through the various big band sounds of Jimmy Dorsey, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, and The King Cole Trio featuring Nat King Cole.
Soundies: A Musical History. Classic sound films remain glorious time capsules of music, social history, popular culture, and they tell the story of a crossroads in our country, when the uncertainties of war, race relations, and emerging technologies combined to write one of the most influential chapters in our nation's history.
