Description
Starting time code: 00:00
Ending time code: 03:13
Length: 193 sec
Beginning: beginning of sequence
Ending: during sequence
Outlines: no data
Completeness: incomplete & fragmentary (hardly a number)
Structure: medley-montage
Shots: 16
Average shot length: 12 sec
Performance: song
Number directed by: George Sidney
Performer(s): Ann-Margret
Cast: no data
Stars who don't participate: no data
Backstage
Diegetic spectators: no + address
Diegetic status of the number: ambivalent
Diegetic status of the music: no diegetic music
Themes
Topic(s): break-up or farewell , courtship or serenade (only 1 partner) , courtship-multiple partners , military, patriotic and war
Diegetic place: Washington D.C. , San Francisco , Guggenheim Museum, New York , Brooklyn , New York , unidentifiable
Imaginary place: none
Ethnic stereotypes: no
Exoticism: asian
Music & dance
Song: Bye Bye Birdie
Musical ensemble: band or orchestra , solo(s)
Dubbing: no data
Tempo: driving rhythm tune
Musical styles: Hollywood studio orchestra
Arrangers: Charles Strouse , Lee Adams
Dance director: no data
Dance ensemble: NA
Dancing type: driving rhythm tune
Dance subgenre: no data
Dance content: no data
Intertextuality
Source: Original number created for the film
Quotation: no data