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Author:   Mark Cantor
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   2.341kg
ISBN:  

9781476683133

ISBN 10:   1476683131
Pages:   893
Publication Date:   01 May 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Forewords by Leonard Maltin and Will Friedwald Preface Introduction Part One: History and Development  1. The Soundies Experience  2. Soundies Fundamentals  3. Early Antecedents—A Brief History  4. Research and Development  5. Just Shy of Making It  6. Techniprocess and Featurettes  7. The Mills Novelty Company, the Soundies Distributing Corporation of America and the Mills Panoram  8. The Production Process  9. The Production Companies 10. The Interviews Part Two: The Soundies Inventory The Catalog Soundies Miniature Revue (X reissues) The Soundies Performers and Session Descriptions Part Three: Conclusions Part Four: Other Inventories Appendices Recording Sessions Production Number and Company Identifications Release Dates Sideline Extras Bibliography Index Techniprocess Index Featurettes Index Narrative Index

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It's an intriguing concept: an oversized, seven-foot-tall jukebox with a 22-by-17-inch screen positioned at eye level. In the 1940s, customers at a bar or restaurant could put in a dime and watch and listen to three-minute musical films called 'soundies.' Musicologist Cantor provides interviews with former performers and a technical history of the making and marketing of soundies....For 10 cents, twice the cost of a regular jukebox, people could watch celebrities, such as Nat King Cole, Gene Krupa, Cab Calloway, and Les Paul perform, and see stars such as Alan Ladd, Doris Day, Gloria Grahame, and Cyd Charisse make their first screen appearances....[This is] a detailed catalogue of 1,880 soundies, their production and casting notes, and more. -Library Journal

Author Information

Mark Cantor is a Los Angeles-based musicologist, historian and archivist of jazz and popular music on film. He is the curator of the Celluloid Improvisations Music Film Archive, perhaps the largest privately held collection of musical performance on 16mm film worldwide. For more information, please visit the author’s website at www.jazz-on-film.com.

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