Josef Berne

Burlesque presentation of "fan dance" by the original performer Faith Bacon.

Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works...

R.C.M. Soundie

A Soundie with Day, Dawn, and Dusk.

A Soundie with Day, Dawn, and Dusk.

A Soundie with The Four Sportsmen.

A Soundie with Vivien Fay and The Slate Brothers.

A Soundie featuring Hoagy Carmichael and Mi Chee.

A Soundie with Johnny Downs and Gale Storm.

A Soundie with Ted Fio Rito and Candy Candido.

A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Four Spirits of Rhythm

A Soundie with the Hoosier Hot Shots.

A Soundie with Johnny Johnston and Marilyn Maxwell.

A Soundie with Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals.

A Soundie with Bob Carroll.

A Soundie featuring June Richmond with Roy Milton and His Band.

A Soundie with Gayle Mellott and Ralph Young.

A Soundie with Harry Barris and Jean Porter.

A Soundie with Jimmie Dodd.

A Soundie with Vickee Richards and Don De Leo.

A Soundie with Danny O'Neil.

A Soundie with Johnny Downs with Gale Storm.

Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.

A Soundie with Florence Gill, Redd Harper and The Sells.

A Soundie featuring Slim Andrews and The Fashionaires with Sybil Rae.

A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Cee Pee Johnson.

A Soundie with Diana Del Rio.

A Soundie with Marvel Maxwell.

Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works...

A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' fiftieth wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show replete...

Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.

Musical short starring Spade Cooley.

Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.

Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

Soundie with a circus setting featuring the David Rose Orchestra.

Gypsies sing and dance around the fire while their children dream.

Gypsies sing and dance around the fire while their children dream.

Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a...

Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."

When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a...

When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a...

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White

An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.

After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student...

Mel Tormé and the Mel-Tones sing the title song in this 1945 Soundie (a short film produced to be played on jukebox-like Panoram machines).

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

1942 Soundies musical short

Martha Tilton & Ben Pollack's Orchestra

The Arthur Johnston Singers singing "The Singing Hills".

Martha Tilton sings in this Soundies film from 1941, with Slate Brothers, and Ben Pollack and His Orchestra accompanying.

Coin operated jukeboxes during WWII were able to play video as well as the audio and this here is one example of that. Ray Noble and His Orchestra...

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short.

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil...

Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in...

Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".

Restored film directed by Josef Berne, released in 1942

1942 Short restored in true form

In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them.

Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.

The King Cole Trio and Ida James perform the title song in this Soundie.

Dorothy Dandridge sings, featuring Cee Pee Johnson on tom-toms.

Soundie musical short featuring Cindy Walker and Peter Buy Rey.

A group of African American cowboys sing the title track.

Soundies short film featuring the Les Paul Trio and Carolyn Grey

Soundies short film in which Gale Storm and Iris Dawn are frustrated by their men only wanting to play gin rummy.

The Delta Rhythem Boys sing while a skeleton lurks in the hallway

The Counts and the Countess perform "Five Salted Peanuts".

Soundie featuring June Richmond (vocals) and Roy Milton performing "Hey Lawdy Mama."

Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancing Up There".

Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".

Delta Rhythm Boys perform "Snoqualomie Jo Jo".

Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang perform "Shame on You".

A burlesque presentation in an antique environment with Faith Bacon in black veils.