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Soundies (Motion pictures) (Genre/Form Term)

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Work cat: Chicken Shack shuffle, 1943: (DLC)2023602000

Delson, S. Soundies and the changing image of Black Americans on screen, 2021: Appendix 1, Directory of Black-cast Soundies (Chicken Shack shuffle, 1943)

Slide, A. The new historical dictionary of the American film industry, 2001: p. 191 (Soundies; the name given to a film jukebox presentation popular in the early forties; patrons could view a three-minute musical short on a 24-by-18 inch plastic screen; the film was projected by mirrors within the jukebox, called a Panoram, and thus required that the film be printed in reverse; they lost their appeal by the end of WWII)

Films by genre, 1993: p. 310 (Soundies; musical shorts of three minutes' duration featuring jazz numbers or popular music with well- and lesser-known personalities that could be heard and viewed by putting a nickel in a jukebox equipped with a 24 by 18 inch plastic screen; first introduced in 1940; popularity faded after World War II)

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