Description

Starting time code: 01:53:56

Ending time code: 01:55:17

Length: 81 sec

Beginning: during sequence

Ending: ending of sequence

Outlines: no data

Completeness: complete, satisfying and uninterrupted

Structure: simple

Shots: 1

Average shot length: 81 sec

Performance: song

Number directed by: Otto Preminger

Performer(s): Sidney Poitier

Cast: no data

Stars who don't participate: no data

Backstage

Diegetic spectators: yes + address

Diegetic status of the number: no

Diegetic status of the music: no diegetic music

Themes

Topic(s): break-up or farewell

Diegetic place: Catfish row, Charleston, South Carolina

Imaginary place: New York , Undefined (but there is a projection in another place)

Ethnic stereotypes: no

Exoticism: not exotic

Music & dance

Song: Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way

Musical ensemble: band or orchestra , solo(s)

Dubbing: no data

Tempo: swinging ballad

Musical styles: modern jazz , spiritual , operatic

Arrangers: George Gershwin

Dance director: no data

Dance ensemble: NA

Dancing type: swinging ballad

Dance subgenre: no data

Dance content: no data

Intertextuality

Source: Adapted from a stage number of the same show

Quotation: no data