#soundies*

[deforest]

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' — 1941, dir. Warren Murray ft. FATS WALLER & MYRA JOHNSON

#filmedit #film #classicfilmedit #soundies #fats waller #1940s #ain't misbehavin #mygifs* #soundies* #jazz

[scopitonearchive]

"Meanwhile, in an odd footnote, there was one more go-round for the idea of the video jukebox. In the age of the Panoram, Europeans had been a little preoccupied. But by the late 1950s, enterprising engineers in France and Italy, using defunct military tech and materials, took their own shot at the project. As a result, I’d guess around a thousand clips were made throughout the 1960s, some for Italy’s Cinebox and the States’ Color-Sonic, but most for France’s Scopitone. The latter’s great advances on the Panoram were that users could select specific clips, and in lucid (and sometimes lurid) color, although the apparatus remained an ungainly hulk. The finest Scopitones highlighted chanteurs/chanteuses and yé-yé artists such as Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, and Sylvie Vartan, whose charmingly insouciant Scopitones borrowed their style from the French New Wave.

"In America, woefully, the shills who licensed the Scopitone decided that it would be best suited for lounges, casinos, cocktail bars, and other dens of Mad Men–style masculine iniquity. They commissioned videos for lounge singers featuring backup dancers in costumes so skimpy that the clips often bordered on soft-core porn, while ignoring youth culture and rock music. They failed by pandering to Don Draper when the cultural momentum, and the money, was with Sally and Bobby. A couple of classics survive, such as Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ ” Color-Sonic clip, but most American Scopitones barely even merit Susan Sontag’s name-check of the genre in “Notes on Camp,” though Joi Lansing’s “The Web of Love” may earn it all by itself. In the wake of a couple of federal investigations of purported mafia connections, on top of its generally misguided management, Scopitone went kaput in the U.S. before the 1960s ended.

"Still, no doubt there’d be valuable (if disheartening) historical insights to glean from a Scopitones collection as thoughtfully thematically shaped as the Kino Lorber Soundies box."

See: https://slate.com/culture/2023/08/music-video-history-soundies-mtv-beatles-panoram.html

#soundies #scopitone #music video

[hezigler]

Watch "Duke Ellington - C Jam Blues (1942)" on YouTube

#duke ellington #1940s #1942 #jazz #music #jazz music #b&w shorts #soundies #Youtube #ben webster #jimmy blanton

[andrewgarfieldasgarfield]

Crew members typically learn pretty quickly on the job though...

#andrew garfield #garfield #andrewgarfieldasgarfield #crew #soundies

[yarnsofyore]

Peeling Potatoes | 1949

"Part of a collection of Soundies found at an estate sale that belonged to a guy who used to do maintenance on the Scopitone film juke boxes. The collection contained several 40 minute reels with a number of Soundies included. This Soundie features a World War II mess hall theme with G.I. Joes singing about “Peeling Potatoes”.

#vintage #1940s #soundie #soundies #video #united states

[deecotan]

anyway here's wavewave

#transformers #transformers g1 #wavewave #shockwave #soundwave #deeco art #idk why this pairing tickles my brain so much #the idea of two of the decepticons' loyalest members who at first glance seem to be the same type of quiet logical no-nonsense type #but when you really look at them you start to see their differences and how they actually work well together #but also like design-wise. romance between two robots with no visible 'face' is so sexy RAAAAAGGHHH #anyway i enjoy wavewaves dynamic in any continuity #but my personal make-believe (delusional) favorite dynamic is where shocky is just an Evil Science Nerd and soundy is her sexy goth gf #Me and the Bad Bitch I Pulled by Being Autistic kind of stuff basically

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

SOUNDIES: A MUSICAL HISTORY WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN

Chris Lamson’s SOUNDIES: A MUSICAL HISTORY WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN (2007) is very obviously a PBS documentary, even though I recorded it from TCM as part of their tribute to Soundies a few months back. Feinstein’s narration is shot in a bare-bones set and has pauses for pledge breaks built in along with teasers before each break that promise more than the next segment will deliver. Fortunately, there are also some good talking heads, including Wynton Marsalis, Leonard Maltin and Soundies performers like Kay Starr and Jackie Parton. And it has generous clips from the early musical shorts shown in video juke boxes during the 1940s. It’s hard to quibble with performances by Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Dorothy Dandridge, Duke Ellington, Francis Faye, Nat King Cole and Anita O’Day. TCM also showed half-hour compilations of restored Soundies (you can find more on YouTube and the web site for Susan Delson, author of SOUNDIES AND THE CHANGING IMAGE OF BLACK AMERICANS ON SCREEN: ONE DIME AT A TIME, link above). Now, when do we get a Scopitone tribute?

#soundies #michael feinstein #louis armstrong #duke ellington #dorothy dandridge #fats waller #francis faye #nat king cole #anita o'day #kay starr

[mostly-him]

Morning coffeengex to endure your bosses 🤨

#soundwaves life #I think this will be a new series because I have a few more drawings on mind 😆 #poor soundy!! #transformers #starscream #megatron #decepticons #soundwave #maccadam #robot #mecha

[blu-owo]

Soundwave's favourite pokemon :)

#ive had this idea for like a year or something #now i can finally draw it :D #well technically i made the sketch a year ago #but i drew the lineart n colors n stuff today and yesterday #transformers #transformers prime #tfp #soundwave #tfp soundwave #pokemon #sylveon #my art #digital art #i didnt really know how to do highlights on soundy #so #i just kinda did some lines n sparkles hoping that it will work lol #maccadam

[osc-affirmations]

Taco will be confirmed lesbian >:]

#mod flash/soundy #bfb #bfdi #battle for bfdi #battle for bfb #battle for dream island #taco bfb #bfb taco #bfdi taco #taco bfdi #ii taco #taco ii #inanimate insanity invitational #inanimate insanity

[deforest]

PATRICIA HALL in MOONLIGHT COCKTAIL — 1942, dir. John Graham

#marciabrady #filmedit #film #classicfilmedit #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmsource #patricia hall #moonlight cocktail #1940s #mygifs* #soundies*

[sinistersinita]

Thank you so much for 500 followers!

I'm so happy to know that people likes my humanformers designs especially the waves family 🥺🥺 💜💙

#rumble #frenzy #maccadam #transformers #transformers g1 #humanformers #cassetes twins #they both look like shockwave. they got the shockster genes. rumble have red eyes like soundy tho #the only thing they didnt inherit from their dads is the heights lmao #tf #tf g1

[scopitonearchive]

"There are a handful of short film collections that should appear on the shelves of any home. Kino Lorber has released several such sets—Gaumont Treasures, Cinema’s First Nasty Women and Pioneers of African-American Cinema in particular—and, if you have even a modest interest in the intersection of music and culture in the mid-20th century and the revolutionary developments that followed, this latest collection is an absolutely essential addition."

#soundies

[nevis-the-skeleton]

Poor Screamer :') and Poor Dreadwing (TvT)... They need a hug.

#starscream #tfp #transformers prime #megatron #knockout #shockwave #soundwave #breakdown #airachnid #steve the vehicon #dreadwing #mommy soundy #sad seekers :') #maccadam

[dustedmagazine]

Moniek Darge / Vanessa Rossetto — Dream Soundies (Erstwhile)

Belgian Moniek Darge and American Vanessa Rossetto, are sound artists who work primarily with collected sounds. Each sources their material from a practice of recording everyday environments, but since their respective days are as different as their emotional orientations, their respective works are different. Darge has traveled the world, often seeking out what she finds to be sacred. Rossetto has spent her life in a small number of American cities, and her personal struggles tend to get folded into her work; she once made an album that dealt primarily with the sounds of a hotel room that she had trouble navigating and the limited distance that she could move when she escaped it.

Their differences prove to be complementary on Dream Soundies (Darge applies the word “soundies” to her audio productions, using the diminutive term to escape the limits of music). Together, these two women who are accustomed to working with anything at hand turn a selection of regular sounds into a soundtrack that is simultaneously ineffable and ordinary. It’s definitely a soundtrack, since sounds often deploy in a cinematic fashion. Loops create continuity, and the arrival of each new element — a chirping bird, a slammed door, a banging disco party, a distant hum that might be a car engine — advances the action as purposefully as the introduction of a new character or visual perspective moves a film along. But these action sequences do not add up to a narrative. Why should they? Sounds were around for a long time before stories, and their vibrations will surely persist much longer than story-bound humans are likely to last.

One might as easily turn to painting to metaphorically describe Dream Soundies. Each moment is layered with sounds, like a thick crust of oils applied to canvas over a span of time. Sirens wail and critters cluck, church bells toll and lesser metals clatter, flutes call and respond and harmonize in compatible disregard with music boxes and ducks. And just as a painter stops at just enough paint (or at least refuses to show you the works where they didn’t stop at the right time), even the densest moments of Dream Soundies are never overloaded. That’s what separates this work from, saying, opening the windows and turning on the TV and radio at the same time; it is arranged, and even if you can’t grasp the rules governing its arrangement, it resonates because of them.

Bill Meyer

#Moniek Darge #Vanessa Rossetto #Dream Soundies #Erstwhile #Bill Meyer #albumreview #dusted magazine #musique concrete #field recordings

[sadfoxedkiddo]

Bondrewd is Shockwave and Soundwave mixed together

Faceless mad immoral scientist with Abyss knows how many minions, has "eyes and ears" everywhere.

Purple. Subarashi = Logical

#random thought #made in abyss #bondrewd #transformers #maccadam #shockwave #soundwave #tfp soundwave #tfp shockwave #tfp because of the faceless purple soundy and the fact that he had A LOT of minicons in pre war Aligned