Movietone Records was a budget records

Drugstore Records

Budget albums were low-priced vinyl record LPS released during the 1950s to 1970s consisting either of previously released material or material recorded especially for the line Budget albums (also known as drugstore records) were low-priced vinyl record LPS released during the 1950s to 1970s...

 subsidiary of 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

's record division, which issued 29 albums starting in 1965 and ending in 1967. Most or all of these were reissues of albums that had appeared earlier on the 20th Century Fox label. Artists featured on these albums included Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple

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, Al Martino

Al Martino

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, Lena Horne

Lena Horne

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, Art Tatum

Art Tatum

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, Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

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, and Sylvia Sims.

The name "Movietone

Movietone sound system

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" had been used by Fox Film Corporation since 1926, when it was coined by William Fox

William Fox (producer)

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 to name the process he had bought for putting sound on film for "talkies

Sound film

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". By the time the 1965 incarnation of the record label came along, Fox had issued some 78s on the Fox Movietone label decades earlier, but these were not commercial issues, as far as is known. "Movietone" was also the name Fox gave to its TV and newsreel

Newsreel

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coverage.