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