Take It Off

Four pretty girls sing the title song while taking off everything but their hats in this soundie. Alas, towards the end they're behind opaque screens.

Soundies were videos, usually of songs like this one. They were meant to be played on a device called the Mills Panaram, a machine which projected the images while a song played. Put a dime in one of the machines, and you got one of about ten number of a reel. The panarams were installed in diners, bars, night clubs, and other places where you might expect to find a jukebox. From 1940 through 1946, Mills and a few other producers made more than two thousand soundies, some of which featured talents like Ricardo Montalban and Doris Day in their first screen appearances.