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