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July 01, 2011

Six Hits and a Miss: Sweet Sue

Back in the '40s, there were quite a few all-women bands, and quite good ones at that. This clip features the Lorraine Page Orchestra, with the vocal group Six Hits and a Miss. Again, the images appear to be flopped...

 

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Rod Nicas

I believe the images are flipped (mirror image) because the source films are "Soundies". Soundies were played on an early video juke box of the 1940s, the Panoram, which used a rear projection system and thus the film print had to be reversed to project properly on the front of the machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundies

Posted by: Rod Nicas | July 01, 2011 at 01:50 PM

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