Busby Berkely: We’re in the Money from Gold-Diggers of 1933 2.35

The first time that we realised the entertainment potential of adding filmic visuals to music was in the 1930s, the depression-era in which the Musical became a major commercial genre. Busby Berkely was the choreographer and director who invented the cine-choreographic dance musical, fuzing a free-form camera and dance within a 3-d cinematic space that completely broke the conventions stage-dance and created new ‘virtual’ space. Here Ginger Rogers sings the penultimate verse in Pig-Latin - moving the first letter of a word to the end of the word and adding ‘ay’….

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