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- Aboard a luxury cruise, Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, dressed in ship captains' outfits, perform "This Love of Mine". While many passengers dance along to the music, three are listening to the music on deck. When the male of those three asks one of the females to dance, that female passes her fur coat to the remaining female to hold, leaving her out in the cold. The remaining female expresses her feelings as she sings along with the orchestra and fantasizes about what she really wants in this situation.
- Cyd Charisse sings and dance with a coat when her partner leaves her to dance with someone else.
- This is a 16mm short made for "Soundies" distribution in 1944 and re-issued by Sack Amusements, in 16mm, in 1949 to theatres. It features San Antonio singer/band leader (Red River Dave) (Dave McEnery) and his Red River Boys band as soldiers, in a barracks setting, talking and singing about what they are going to do after they are discharged, which boils down to finding some pretty women. The songs dissolve into settings involving plenty of pretty women wearing bathing suits and dressing gowns designed to display their attributes, of which they have many and they are well displayed, especially when (Ann Parker) sings her song, "He's My Pin-up Boy." The other songs are by McEnery and the band and are; "Oh, Susanna," "Every Saturday Night" and "There Are Loads of Pretty Women in This World."
- Anita O'Day performs the hit song "Let Me Off Uptown", accompanied by Gene Krupa on drums and Roy Eldridge on trumpet.
- In a Soundie, Stan Kenton and His Orchestra are depicted on their rise to fame.
- Paul White and Dorothy Dandridge sing about the clothes they will wear to impress their "Sunday" beaux.
- Louis Jordan, with his band, sings and performs the title song, "Caldonia,", and "Honey Child," "Tillie" and 'Buzz Me", wowing the jitter-buggers, zoot suits and bobby-soxers of the mid-1940s, all built around a wisp of a plot dealing with the difficulties of production in Harlem.
- One of thousands of 3-minute "Soundies", the forerunner of the music video, produced in the 1940s for video jukeboxes called a "Panoram".
- In this "Soundie", Sister Rosetta Tharpe sings the title song while young couples do the Lindy Hop.
- Fats Waller performs his hit surrounded by beautiful women in a 1940s version music video.
- Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.
- In this Soundie, Count Basie and His Orchestra play the title song while many couples do the Lindy Hop.
- Four dancers, two males and two females, merrily dance to the merry tune of "Skip to my Lou".
- After hours at a nightclub, the hired help have a jam session, which proves to be just what a couple of belated customers wanted to hear.
- Three minute short during which Warren Jackson croons two verses of the title song , and during the instrumental interlude Gwen Verdon executes some vigorous ballet spins. Dancers billed as The Dream Girls provide the background.
- War-time song that likens hugs, kisses and love to other commodities (e.g., gasoline, tires) that were rationed during WWII.
- A group of 18th century musicians are playing a Johann Sebastian Bach song and a couple is doing a stately dance, when the music suddenly switches to jitterbug, and the dancing couple really starts to swing.
- Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.
- Sexy Hula dancers spice up Ray Kinney's early version of the music video with a Hawiaan-themed song.
- Marie Bryant and Paul White sing and dance in this 1942 "Soundie" with music by Duke Ellington Orchestra.
- Ancestors of music videos, YANKEE DOODLER, ROSIE THE RIVETER, and DEAR ARABELLA were made during World War II for coin-operated jukebox devices found in restaurants, bars and train stations. On built-in glass screens, they projected 16mm films of artists performing popular tunes. These examples, although not in perfect condition, are time capsules of their era. William Frawley was a vaudevillian and musical comedy performer decades before he played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy.
- "Tiger Rag" starring Walter Liberace at the piano. Liberace plays a "double time, rhythm arrangement" of the title song while two attractive ladies watch in this Soundie.
- A nurse gets the wounded patients in her office up dancing when she sings about jive.
- Van Alexander and His Orchestra get into the cowboy mood with the classic song.
- Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra play and Helen O'Connell sings the title song in this Soundie.
- This Soundie shows Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing the title song.