Soundies were 3-minute musical films which you could watch at a bar or club on a large jukebox with a screen. Film historian Susan Delson has curated a selection in Soundies: The Ultimate Collection.
On a desolate dirt road, a clutch of American soldiers chatters in front of a signpost that reads, “Chungking: 8 Miles.” Suddenly, the GIs scatter as a small military jeep comes rolling haphazardly ...
Forty years before MTV and music videos, there were "soundies." Between 1940 and 1947, about 1,800 were made, three-minute black-and-white films designed to be shown on Panorams, coin-operated film ...