Always stunning spectacles, i never fail to be amazed at the amount of rehearsing needed to pull these dance numbers off, and the sheer dedication of all concerned. Berkeley sure was a genius.
@@diamondgoddess2534 I think entertainers had more responsibility back then. The country was in a depression and rather than foster it Hollywood worked to keep us going.
The wonderful AND incredible lovely talento of B.B AND of course the very outstanding talent of the dancers. Why, oh why can't we have pictures like this today. This Is indeed entertainment
Semplicemente altissimi i livelli sia musicali, che di scenografia, riprese cinematografiche e montaggio........le cose quando fatte bene, non risentono dello scorrere del tempo. Complimenti a tutte le persone in questo film, che oggi, purtroppo, non sono piu tra noi. Riposate in pace.
Incroyable ! On frémit à l'idée de loger tout ce monde entre les répétitions, ainsi qu'au temps nécessaire pour mettre ces chorégraphies au point. Impensable aujourd'hui !!! Et même si on pense que ces danseurs étaient mal payés (surtout au moment de la dépression) le budget d'un tel spectacle devait être astronomique !
That's because of the controversial, though dead-on, message of the song. NO production number in American film has been as serious as the one for "Remember My Forgotten Man".
I was also thinking about rehearsal for 100% of the dancers to get everything 100% correct, and all the other logistics of putting these numbers together; casting all the dancers, construction, editing, electrical for those neon violins, costumes, etc. Today a lot of that can be done with CGI, but not back then!
There’s a British musical called ‘Salad Days’ in which there’s a piano that makes people dance. Imagine if it got transported to New York and got on a loudspeaker, all sorts of things could happen, the police couldn’t help themselves, theatres would empty, people would come out onto broadway itself and block the road dancing, a busby Berkeley movie in the making? I guess no one makes movies like that anymore.
And of course, all these numbers were perfotmed on a theater stage - in front of a live audience (that, as we see, applauds appreciatively at the end). Must have have been one helluva unique theater and stage.
Scene around minute 6:15 has a similar choir girls arrangement as a very early movie by 'Segundo de Chomón', from Aragón, who worked for Pathé in Paris, and later, in Italy
We are born, go to school, career, marry, children and grandchildren, grow old and then, and then, our eventually is determined by the One Choice we make on this side of the grave.
That was EXACTLY what I thought too. Glad I'm not the only one with a morbid reaction. I'm such a cynic, or realist, definitelty glass half empty type.
There are some creative CZcams videos that do that well, amazing accomplisn=hments of editing. See Uptown funk for one. Focus is on singles and pairs insfead of vast chorus lines, but there must be a few of those too.
I think the key thing is when he said that everything on the set moves, since they are making moving pictures. It shows how much he thought about blocking and movement for his visuals
Before the current intermingling technology of everything, everywhere, all the time, I would watch, then video tape Busby Berkeley dance bio/documentaries. Such graphic art design, with the sensibilities and trends of the time.
lawrence linehan I hadn’t heard that, but why not? I heard he laid in the bath, with martini’s and got ideas for choreography. (Amongst other ideas). 😀
I really wish he had done lullaby of broadway with kaleidoscope effect. Wish you all could have seen the divine miss m strut down the instead of a huge platform shoe doing lullaby of broadway. Barry manilow on the piano at the palace theater 1973. Before she became Bette Midler.
B.berkeley a musical.to je 42.ulca,prehliadka v zaplave svetiel,gold digger,atd.tiez reziser l.bacon a dokonale prepracovana choreografia.uzasna kamera,posobiva a pohybujuca sa,vytvaranie dokonalych obrazov kanerou a spickovou strihovou skladbou.prekrasna,melodicka ,dobova hudba.pribeh sice obycajny,trochu naivny,ale ludia v dobe depresie to potrebovali.a samozrejme d.powell a r.keeler.bravurne tance a pohyb.raz darmo,hollywood je hollywood.doteraz to cele nebolo prekonane.je to zlata klasika,klenot.nadcasova.novum spociva prave v sposobe snimania kamery,jej pohybu a samozrejme v samitnom tanci.ucinkujuci sa pihybovali ako im berkeley ukazal a tak vznikli tie krasne obrazce.nema to obdobu v dejinach muzikalu ani filmu.klobuk dole pred nasimi predkami a tiez samozrejme pred hollywoodom a broadwayom.thank you,very much.peter ragac,slovakia
I want to know how much each of those dancers got paid. Probably not very much during the height of the 1930's depression. Of course nowadays, some computer geek would create a pattern in software from one set of dancers....think the battle scenes from Star Wars movies with Jarjar Binks. All things considered, the old way was better.
synchronised crowd movements...I ended up here after murmerations from starlings...budgies!! on earthflight BBC series..I'll NEVER see budgerigars in the same light...one all alone in a tiny cage with a bell a mirror a cuttlefish !!?? crazy when you see 10s of thousands in a dramatic murmeration to thwart aerial predators yet simultaneously queuing to drink and freshen up. Later I found Dunlin in a murmeration similarly yet with a distinct Dunlin personality...smaller , perhaps with tighter smoke vortices that possibly switch or flip even faster than starlings or budgerigars...I'd like the complete box set of murmerations...all the birds capable of the feat ...bats...surely the freetail bat has a trick or two? There's gotta be some insects and other invertebrates ... some schools or shoals of fish species do their aquatic murmeration attempting to fool or confound those trying to focus on òne single individual which is generally the technique required for a successful hunt. Im on the lookout for a film called All the murmeration known... to human beings. Meanwhile I'd like us all to remember the greatest singer songwriter ever ...mmmmmmmm The moon's too bright, the chains too tight ,the beast won't go to sleep
Interesting that Gene Kelly is narrating this tribute to Busby, yet he was often quoted as saying that he "hated Busby's style of musical". Gene and Stanley Donen publically held Busby in contempt and failed to recognize his contribution to the revitalization of the merits of the musical on film in the early years of the Great Depression. Maybe Gene changed his tune in later years.
42nd Street is amazing. To this day, people still "shuffle off to Buffalo"!! Bette Davis mentioned this movie in one of hers. Can't recall the title but she killed her twin sister and tried to assume her life!
I agree, her tap dancing was clunky and she never stopped looking at her own feet while dancing and her singing was truly awful, but she was married to Al Jolson at the time and he carried a lot of weight at Warner's. Hence, she was in a lot of Warner Bros. movies in the 30s.
mark miller not very fair. She was a very humble person, part of the reason for her popularity, and she was not a tap dancer, she was a clog dancer, (or buck and wing), an old vaudeville style.
@@retire14pattaya9 I believe that was "directed" by Busby Berkeley. Not really, in name only to garner publicity. That said, Ruby must of been in her early 60s at the time. Surely she didn't dance in the play? Saw her in interviews from the 80s and she came across as being very nice, very sweet.
@@berjaboy she did dance very much so. She seemed to be really enjoying herself. I also saw gloria swanson in 1972 in butterflies are free also on Broadway. And a young looking 54yo lana turner at town hall nyc.
What? Is this English? AQre you saying you like the all white, uniformely costumed dancers. Say so. That's okay. Not the way it should be, but reflective of the time.
Very good insight. That final sequence would have had Mussolini rushing home tonwrite a fan letter. Bear in mind what else was happeniing then: US government buildings in DC done in grandiose Romano style.
That's because fascism appropriated the heightened drama (and popularity) of B&W musicals and the spectacular camera angles to create their propaganda movies. Hollywood invented these cinematic techniques. Italy and Germany took advantage of their dramatic emotional response to create images glorifying fascist principles.
![Broadway, New York 1930s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/n.gif)
Tap dancing noise must have been deafening, but still like to watch these ❤❤❤
For people living in the depression, this was pure magic........enough to take their mind off their troubles.
Same in Depression 2.
It's equally magical and beautiful today!!!!!! Hollywood was grand!!!!! Now it's just grandiloquent and annoying.
and great entertainment for today as well! I need this.
This was the Era of a Musical Legend That will Never Be FORGOTTEN 💕
I love these old Busby Berkeley films and there's nothing today that can be compared to them!!❤️❤️❤️
You bet!!!
So many wonderful songs came from these musicals. 🥰. I've watched them since I was a teen and still love them. Just so excellent and historical also!🥰
Thank You For The ENTERTAINMENT that we will never see the likes of again, Amazing. ❤❤❤❤❤
Always stunning spectacles, i never fail to be amazed at the amount of rehearsing needed to pull these dance numbers off, and the sheer dedication of all concerned. Berkeley sure was a genius.
How can anyone watch this & not come away, humming, singing, dancing & smiling??
I wish movies were still like this!!!
Hollywood cared back then.
@@Laceykat66 Entertainment had a different meaning back then.
@@diamondgoddess2534 I think entertainers had more responsibility back then. The country was in a depression and rather than foster it Hollywood worked to keep us going.
@@Laceykat66 Great point, Lacey! Movies were escapism back then.
@@diamondgoddess2534 Agreed and Hollywood knew how important that was.
I used to watch old movies with a elderly neighbor who would babysit.
She liked these kind of movies.
This is the most beautiful production and performance I have ever seen.
The wonderful AND incredible lovely talento of B.B AND of course the very outstanding talent of the dancers. Why, oh why can't we have pictures like this today. This Is indeed entertainment
Dreamy sequence.❤❤❤
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
Wow! What a production number! Love Warners musicals. Just can't beat Busby Berkley! Wish movies were like that today! Thanks for sharing!!
Hello 👋 how are you doing??
Love watching these numbers
Semplicemente altissimi i livelli sia musicali, che di scenografia, riprese cinematografiche e montaggio........le cose quando fatte bene, non risentono dello scorrere del tempo. Complimenti a tutte le persone in questo film, che oggi, purtroppo, non sono piu tra noi. Riposate in pace.
Spectacular creativity and vison.
Beatiful, Karl. I love Busby Berkeley.
Incroyable ! On frémit à l'idée de loger tout ce monde entre les répétitions, ainsi qu'au temps nécessaire pour mettre ces chorégraphies au point. Impensable aujourd'hui !!! Et même si on pense que ces danseurs étaient mal payés (surtout au moment de la dépression) le budget d'un tel spectacle devait être astronomique !
one of the pioneer computer graphics of the 1930s
BUSBY BERKELEY is THE GENIUS of the 20Th Century 😊
It's a shame these Berkley retrospectives never include Remember My Forgotten Man. It shows that his ensemble pieces could be serious.
That's because of the controversial, though dead-on, message of the song. NO production number in American film has been as serious as the one for "Remember My Forgotten Man".
Amazing!
This is BREATHTAKING!!!!!!! Who needs computer graphics? // That said, wonder how many hours of practice that insane tap number at the end took....
we needed to watch this.
I was also thinking about rehearsal for 100% of the dancers to get everything 100% correct, and all the other logistics of putting these numbers together; casting all the dancers, construction, editing, electrical for those neon violins, costumes, etc. Today a lot of that can be done with CGI, but not back then!
Just brilliant!
There’s a British musical called ‘Salad Days’ in which there’s a piano that makes people dance. Imagine if it got transported to New York and got on a loudspeaker, all sorts of things could happen, the police couldn’t help themselves, theatres would empty, people would come out onto broadway itself and block the road dancing, a busby Berkeley movie in the making? I guess no one makes movies like that anymore.
And of course, all these numbers were perfotmed on a theater stage - in front of a live audience (that, as we see, applauds appreciatively at the end). Must have have been one helluva unique theater and stage.
They will never surpass Berkeley in a million years.
Yes. No amount of CGI can surpass that splendid spectacle.
America was a dreamy those days
Wow they were fit as well as very talented
Scene around minute 6:15 has a similar choir girls arrangement as a very early movie by 'Segundo de Chomón', from Aragón, who worked for Pathé in Paris, and later, in Italy
this video filled with simbols and programming...
Now THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT !!
If you want to see another great show number lookup "Honeymoon Hotel."
That's dancing :)
Strange to think that most of these dancers, both men and women have been dead for 30 or 40 years now. Life is so damn short!
We are born, go to school, career, marry, children and grandchildren, grow old and then, and then, our eventually is determined by the One Choice we make on this side of the grave.
Memento Mori.
@@williamd4707 only one choice? You do lead a dull life, I like most of the rest of the world make choices every day.
@@williamd4707, ya, your 'One Choice' is to not make a choice.
That was EXACTLY what I thought too. Glad I'm not the only one with a morbid reaction. I'm such a cynic, or realist, definitelty glass half empty type.
Super excellent with very good interesting video
This was so interesting and informative! Thank you for making it!
fantastic /put on some differant music similar tempo and watch them dance /remember as a kid how brilliant they were ////
There are some creative CZcams videos that do that well, amazing accomplisn=hments of editing. See Uptown funk for one. Focus is on singles and pairs insfead of vast chorus lines, but there must be a few of those too.
I think the key thing is when he said that everything on the set moves, since they are making moving pictures. It shows how much he thought about blocking and movement for his visuals
Yes, and all done without computer simulations--just imagination, story boards and written/visual planning.
Amazing! Now we are in dark age.
Espectacular,,Musical,,EL FINAL ESPECTACULAR,,LA ESCENA DE TAP GRUPAL,, APARECE TYRON POWER,,, IRREPETIBLE ESPECTACULAR ESCENAS DE TAP!!!
That voice, the narrator's, sounds like Gene Kelly's voice.
Yup, I agree! I think it is. How appropriate!!!
12 from 10-ALL been made -& filmed Before us! (& no any computers- & Photo shop)
Wow. Thanks
Spectacular!
Wow. Great.
The girls dancing at 7:35 is my favorite part, beautiful!!
Miss Complexion, LOL.
Before the current intermingling technology of everything, everywhere, all the time, I would watch, then video tape Busby Berkeley dance bio/documentaries.
Such graphic art design, with the sensibilities and trends of the time.
I read somewhere that they filmed them at 2 and 3 a.m. so the lighting could be controlled perfectly.
lawrence linehan
I hadn’t heard that, but why not?
I heard he laid in the bath, with martini’s and got ideas for choreography.
(Amongst other ideas). 😀
Is this video narrated by Gene Kelly?
Why was there never a "That's Entertainment!" type retrospective for Warner Bros. musicals?
Today, it would all be CGI!
I note Harry Warren and Al Dubin have no written mention?
Mr berley was a magic maker
I really wish he had done lullaby of broadway with kaleidoscope effect.
Wish you all could have seen the divine miss m strut down the instead of a huge platform shoe doing lullaby of broadway. Barry manilow on the piano at the palace theater 1973. Before she became Bette Midler.
B.berkeley a musical.to je 42.ulca,prehliadka v zaplave svetiel,gold digger,atd.tiez reziser l.bacon a dokonale prepracovana choreografia.uzasna kamera,posobiva a pohybujuca sa,vytvaranie dokonalych obrazov kanerou a spickovou strihovou skladbou.prekrasna,melodicka ,dobova hudba.pribeh sice obycajny,trochu naivny,ale ludia v dobe depresie to potrebovali.a samozrejme d.powell a r.keeler.bravurne tance a pohyb.raz darmo,hollywood je hollywood.doteraz to cele nebolo prekonane.je to zlata klasika,klenot.nadcasova.novum spociva prave v sposobe snimania kamery,jej pohybu a samozrejme v samitnom tanci.ucinkujuci sa pihybovali ako im berkeley ukazal a tak vznikli tie krasne obrazce.nema to obdobu v dejinach muzikalu ani filmu.klobuk dole pred nasimi predkami a tiez samozrejme pred hollywoodom a broadwayom.thank you,very much.peter ragac,slovakia
Moderators voice sounds like Gene Kelly
SoCal Gal It is. I think it's from That's Entertainment, the compilation movie made in the 1970s which showed clips from all the great old musicals.
DAMES, without a doubt, is the GREATEST FILM EVER MADE!
GREATER--BY FAR!!!--than Oliver Stone's silly ass frivolous "Apocalypse, Now"...
Taiwanese and free world are rooting for you Sir🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
OMG I think I've gone colorblind!!
Can you tell me how to get....how to get to 42nd street. ( just follow Sesame Street) :)
That gets a save
I want to know how much each of those dancers got paid. Probably not very much during the height of the 1930's depression.
Of course nowadays, some computer geek would create a pattern in software from one set of dancers....think the battle scenes from Star Wars movies with Jarjar Binks.
All things considered, the old way was better.
Think of all the seamstress hired to make all the costumes.
@@JoeinWashDC Yeah, they might not have paid too much but at least a bunch of people were working in the height of the Great Depression.
42nd Street
YEP..JE
synchronised crowd movements...I ended up here after murmerations from starlings...budgies!!
on earthflight BBC series..I'll NEVER see budgerigars in the same light...one all alone in a tiny cage with a bell a mirror a cuttlefish !!??
crazy when you see 10s of thousands in a dramatic murmeration to thwart aerial predators yet simultaneously queuing to drink and freshen up.
Later I found Dunlin in a murmeration similarly yet with a distinct Dunlin personality...smaller ,
perhaps with tighter smoke
vortices that possibly switch or flip even faster than starlings or budgerigars...I'd like the complete box set of murmerations...all the birds capable of the feat ...bats...surely the freetail bat has a trick or two?
There's gotta be some insects and other invertebrates ... some schools or shoals of fish species do their aquatic murmeration attempting to fool or confound those trying to focus on òne single individual which is generally the technique required for a successful hunt.
Im on the lookout for a film called All the murmeration known... to human beings.
Meanwhile I'd like us all to remember the greatest singer songwriter ever ...mmmmmmmm
The moon's too bright, the chains too tight ,the beast won't go to sleep
Now TV and movies are just playing old talking and drama.
Hello how are you doing??
چرا دوبله نشده ؟!
امیدوارم جفتک نندازند و سانسور نکنند
From what film are the violins scene?
“Gold Diggers of 1933”. Song: The Shadow Waltz
Thank you !!!! I like it very much !!!!
Interesting that Gene Kelly is narrating this tribute to Busby, yet he was often quoted as saying that he "hated Busby's style of musical". Gene and Stanley Donen publically held Busby in contempt and failed to recognize his contribution to the revitalization of the merits of the musical on film in the early years of the Great Depression. Maybe Gene changed his tune in later years.
Bizarre, corny technical masterpieces.
These choreographed numbers were visual marvels.
Busby Berkley was said to be a slave driving asshole but he got perfection out of his dancers
Hello 👋
42d street.
The first ziggy.
Some mighty fine dancing.
42nd Street is amazing. To this day, people still "shuffle off to Buffalo"!! Bette Davis mentioned this movie in one of hers. Can't recall the title but she killed her twin sister and tried to assume her life!
"Stolen Life" 1946.
What do you know? Real talent and real entertainment. Look at the crap we have now.Should we even be watching this? There are no black people in it.
Berkeley was an alcoholic who killed two with his car in 1935. Sober here, he would have made a good actor.
the narrator sounds like donald trump especially at 0:31 when he says “huge”
Ella Speck 😂 now I cant unhear it
I literally thought the same 🤣
Gene kelly superstar dancer at MGM. Doing narration.
A netrba zabudavy ani na rko af.astaira a yv.rogers.peyer ragac,slovakia
بروید منطق سانسور کنید !
طرف انطرف اب چقدر حرص می خورد
خوب اینهم فیلم منطق
تفسیر کند ،پروفسور امیر قاسمی !
By her own admission, Ruby Keeler was a mediocre dancer, singer and actress. A prime example of the sum being greater than the individual parts.
I agree, her tap dancing was clunky and she never stopped looking at her own feet while dancing and her singing was truly awful, but she was married to Al Jolson at the time and he carried a lot of weight at Warner's. Hence, she was in a lot of Warner Bros. movies in the 30s.
mark miller not very fair. She was a very humble person, part of the reason for her popularity, and she was not a tap dancer, she was a clog dancer, (or buck and wing), an old vaudeville style.
@@berjaboy I saw ruby keeler on Broadway 1971 in no no nannette.
@@retire14pattaya9 I believe that was "directed" by Busby Berkeley. Not really, in name only to garner publicity. That said, Ruby must of been in her early 60s at the time. Surely she didn't dance in the play? Saw her in interviews from the 80s and she came across as being very nice, very sweet.
@@berjaboy she did dance very much so. She seemed to be really enjoying herself. I also saw gloria swanson in 1972 in butterflies are free also on Broadway. And a young looking 54yo lana turner at town hall nyc.
You how great it looks when every one one couture one race.
What? Is this English? AQre you saying you like the all white, uniformely costumed dancers. Say so. That's okay. Not the way it should be, but reflective of the time.
Busby's better than Balanchine any day
Lovely--but I really wonder about the Fascist aesthetic of the final sequence, from Golld diggers. It must have excited Mussolini.
Ah, modern sound speak!! 👎👎👎👎
Art Deco design. You're reading far too much into it. Ah, modern sound speak,maybe. Get over it. It is a dance sequence..accept it at that.
6:39 This looks fascist ...
@eclemensen I do, as I said just now in a comment. It's the final sequence.
Very good insight. That final sequence would have had Mussolini rushing home tonwrite a fan letter. Bear in mind what else was happeniing then: US government buildings in DC done in grandiose Romano style.
That's because fascism appropriated the heightened drama (and popularity) of B&W musicals and the spectacular camera angles to create their propaganda movies. Hollywood invented these cinematic techniques. Italy and Germany took advantage of their dramatic emotional response to create images glorifying fascist principles.
@John H I hope you're not talking about me, because I adore Busby Berkeley and those over-the-top musicals. :)
Get a grip & get over it. It's a frigging dance!! Ah, modern sound speak.
Only white people... 😍 Memories...