When the people run riot at General Lamarque's funeral and when the people man the barricades a few of them are waving red flags. I assume the flag is a symbol
It seems to me that musicals are much less common in the American Film Industry these days in comparison to the 30's, 40's, and 50's. Of course, I'm not saying
Obviously in the United States, the music video was spectacularly thrust into prominence in the early 1980's (1981 IIRC) with the inaugural episode of Music Tel
There are many little things in the movie Grease that make me wonder what was choreographed, what was accidental, what was just left in to avoid doing a re-take
.....or why do shows for adults lack musical numbers? In watching TV with my nieces on Nickelodeon and Disney it seems that musical numbers are not uncommon.
I recently saw the 1944 Hollywood musical film Cover Girl staring Rita Hayworth. I was shocked by how similar it was to a typical Bollywood movie; The plot was
So, I've been thinking a lot about Tim Burton's movie adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's stage musical, Sweeney Todd. (Or, rather, I was recently reminded of a qu
What was the first full-length film that was a musical? I presume it would have to be after talkies became a thing.
What makes the format of a musical well suited for the Disney princess movies? Is this simply a case of repeating a template that was started with Snow White, o
The movie version of the Sound of Music followed the stage version fairly closely. But some meaningful changes were made. Specifically, the movie version added
Take, for example, this episode from Tom & Jerry. Every movement/expression/feeling the characters display is included on the background music, which is a
How the audience does not notice voice difference when professional singer, with totally different voice, performs musical number and then lip
In animated musicals (or animated films with some singing but not to the point of being a musical eg Wreck-It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks The Internet), sometimes the
I enjoyed the DVD recording of the 2001 French musical Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour (IMDb). When I later looked for its Original Recor