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Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein

03/03/2007

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1hr 16min

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Documentary

,Music

,History

STORY

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 Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, The Mills Brothers, Les Paul, Cab Calloway, and Fats Waller. 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. These classic films remain as glorious time capsules of music, social history, popular culture, and 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 nation¹s history.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Michael Feinstein
  • Leonard Maltin
  • Les Paul
  • Hugh Hefner

    Director

  • Chris Lamson

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Liberation Entertainment

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Michael Feinstein

Host

Leonard Maltin

Self

Les Paul

Self

Hugh Hefner

Self

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