soundie

English

Etymology

From sound +‎ -ie. Compare talkie, movie.

Noun

soundie (plural soundies)

1. A short musical film of the 1940s, a precursor to the music video.
   • 2003, Eduardo Obregón Pagán, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon, page 257:

     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 […]