soundie

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soundie

/ˈsaʊndi/

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From sound + -ie. Compare talkie, movie.

noun soundies

A short musical film of the 1940s, a precursor to the music video. Terenzio, MacGillivray, and Okudo identify this production as a soundie made in early March 1942, entitled "A Zoot Suit (with a Reat Pleat)" and starring Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White[…]

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@misc{soundie_2026,
  title = {soundie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soundie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}