In April 2015, a video titled “102 y/o Dancer Sees Herself on Film for the First Time” was uploaded on YouTube. Shot on cellphones in a Brooklyn nursing home, the seven-minute video shows Alice Barker ...

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Hot Chocolate was among the more than 1,800 short films called Soundies that ...

From YouTube’s picking up the music video torch from MTV to Instagram reels and TikTok, we perhaps take for granted that we can pick up our phones and bathe in an infinite stream of bite-sized video ...

Soundies were 3-minute musical films which you could watch at a bar or club on a large jukebox with a screen. Film historian Susan Delson has curated a selection in Soundies: The Ultimate Collection.

A new television special, Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein, is scheduled to air on PBS March 8th. The program will explore a nearly forgotten piece of American musical history, ...

Existing for less than a decade during the 1940s, soundies were a precursor to MTV and a rival to jukeboxes. These three-minute, black and white shorts were designed to shown in rear-projection, ...

Once upon a time you could drop a dime in a movie jukebox to hear — and watch — musical greats like Duke Ellington and Gene Krupa. By Manohla Dargis Hair slicked and smile set to dazzle, Duke ...