Description
Starting time code: 36:17
Ending time code: 41:21
Length: 304 sec
Beginning: during sequence
Ending: during sequence
Outlines: no data
Completeness: complete, satisfying and uninterrupted
Structure: simple
Shots: 4
Average shot length: 76 sec
Performance: song
Number directed by: Otto Preminger
Performer(s): Dorothy Dandridge , Sidney Poitier
Cast: no data
Stars who don't participate: no data
Backstage
Diegetic spectators: no
Diegetic status of the number: no
Diegetic status of the music: no diegetic music
Themes
Topic(s): courtship or serenade (only 1 partner)
Diegetic place: Catfish row, Charleston, South Carolina
Imaginary place: none
Ethnic stereotypes: no
Exoticism: not exotic
Music & dance
Song: Bess, you is my woman now
Musical ensemble: band or orchestra , duet
Dubbing: no data
Tempo: adagio
Musical styles: operatic
Arrangers: George Gershwin
Dance director: no data
Dance ensemble: NA
Dancing type: adagio
Dance subgenre: no data
Dance content: no data
Intertextuality
Source: Adapted from a stage number of the same show
Quotation: no data