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Vóór MTV en het televisietijdperk waren er Soundies. Deze drie minuten durende zwart-witfilms, die voor het eerst verschenen in 1941, bevatten artiesten uit het Big Band-, Jazz- en Swing-tijdperk, zoals Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, The Mills Brothers, Les Paul, Cab Calloway en Fats Waller. The Soundies hielpen onder meer de carrières van Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Liberace en Dorothy Dandridge op gang te brengen. Voor een dubbeltje bekeken via een speciale machine genaamd Panoram, een filmjukebox, waren deze voorlopers van de videoclip te zien in nachtclubs, wegrestaurants, restaurants en andere openbare locaties in de VS. Deze klassieke films blijven glorieuze tijdcapsules van muziek, sociale geschiedenis, populaire cultuur, en vertel het verhaal van een kruispunt in ons land, toen de onzekerheden van oorlog, rassenverhoudingen en opkomende technologieën samen een van de meest invloedrijke hoofdstukken in de geschiedenis van ons land schreven.

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Soundies: A Musical History

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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.

1h 16m

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