Movies: Rcm Productions

R.C.M. Soundie...

Jazz Soundie with Stan Kenton and his players....

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short....

Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models....

Louis Armstrong and his Sleepy Time Down South....

An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date....

Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again....

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any mo...

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White...

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942....

Spike Jones and His City Slickers perform "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy"....

Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa"....

Carolina Cotton Yodeling with the Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang....

Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancing Up There"....

1942 Soundies musical short...

Merle Travis dreaming of a Texas Home....

In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them....

Princess Aloha & Andy Iona's Orchestra in Hilo Hattie....

Musical short starring Spade Cooley....

Soundie featuring June Richmond (vocals) and Roy Milton performing "Hey Lawdy Mama."...