Born to Swing
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Ginger Harmon sings about how she was born to swing. She keeps swinging her hips with a line of chorines while George Steiner plays the music in this soundie.
A soundie was a short film (usually just under three minute long) meant to be played on a device called a Mills Panaram. From 1940 through 1946, if you found one of these machines in a bar, a night club, or similar venue, you could drop in a dime and get one of these movies from a reel of ten. Usually, like this one, it was a musical number. Occasionally it was a comedy skit, or a variety act. The reels were changed weekly; Mills and a few competitors produced more than two thousand of them, using a mix of major stars and unknown talent, some of who became major stars later.
A soundie was a short film (usually just under three minute long) meant to be played on a device called a Mills Panaram. From 1940 through 1946, if you found one of these machines in a bar, a night club, or similar venue, you could drop in a dime and get one of these movies from a reel of ten. Usually, like this one, it was a musical number. Occasionally it was a comedy skit, or a variety act. The reels were changed weekly; Mills and a few competitors produced more than two thousand of them, using a mix of major stars and unknown talent, some of who became major stars later.
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