Strange as it sounds in an age when half our teenagers think music only comes on videos, many of America’s greatest popular musicians are almost entirely absent from our visual archives. It wasn’t ...

The 1980s ushered in the era of MTV music videos. But decades earlier in the 1940s, there were short music films called Soundies. The 1980s ushered in the era of MTV music videos. But decades earlier ...

This is FRESH AIR. Decades before there were music videos, there were soundies. In the 1940s, you could not only listen to your favorite bands and vocalists on records or the radio, but you could also ...

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 ...

Forty years before MTV and music videos, there were "soundies." Between 1940 and 1947, about 1,800 were made, three-minute black-and-white films designed to be shown on Panorams, coin-operated film ...

Long before the Walkman (remember it?) and the digital music players of today, there were jukeboxes — in essence, coin-operated phonograph players (remember records?). They came into use in the 1930s, ...