Soundies
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- Instance of
- series of creative works
- Country of origin
- United States
- Duration
- 3
- Has parts of class
- music video
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- Soundies
- color
- black-and-white
- film format
- 16 mm film
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thumb|Soundies were made for projection on the Mills Panoram jukebox
A soundie is a short American film displaying both the audio and video of a musical performance. Over 1,850 soundies were produced between 1939 to 1947, regarded today as "precursors to music videos". Soundies exhibited a variety of musical genres in an effort to draw a broad audience.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Soundies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.