August 27, 2009

The 1945 short feature film Caldonia, featuring Monroe County native musician Louis Jordan, is credited by many as the forerunner of today’s music videos. Four musical numbers from the eighteen-minute film appeared as individual “soundies” being shown on video jukeboxes in the 1940s. The movie poster is reprised here as a postage stamp included in the United States Postal Service’s Vintage Black Cinema series of 2008.