Storyline: Soundies A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein 2007 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 nations history
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The Brass Bottle (1964)
An architect buys an antique brass bottle that contains an ancient genie whos determined to fulfill his new masters every wish
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Strain 100 (2020)
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Worst Weather Ever (2013)
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Thunder Bay (1953)
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The Mudge Boy 2003
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When a family of five rent a beautiful house for their summer vacation, the price seems too good to be true