Description

Starting time code: 01:42:52

Ending time code: 01:57:05

Length: 853 sec

Beginning: during sequence

Ending: ending of sequence

Outlines: nothing significant

Completeness: complete, satisfying and uninterrupted

Structure: medley-montage

Shots: 0

Average shot length: Infinity sec

Performance: song+dance

Number directed by: Busby Berkeley

Performer(s): Richard Quine , Judy Garland , Mickey Rooney , Ray McDonald , Virginia Weidler , Anne Rooney

Cast: All White cast

Stars who don't participate: no data

Backstage

Diegetic spectators: yes + address

Diegetic status of the number: stage

Diegetic status of the music: diegetic musicians seem responsible for the whole accompaniment

Themes

Topic(s): minstrel , stage tradition, history of spectacle , meta

Diegetic place: no data

Imaginary place: Broadway

Ethnic stereotypes: blackface

Exoticism: no data

Music & dance

Song: Alabamy Bound , Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones , Oh! Susanna , Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) , Babes on Broadway , By the Light of the Silvery Moon , Waiting for the Robert E. Lee

Musical ensemble: single instrument

Dubbing: no data

Tempo: no data

Musical styles: no data

Arrangers: no data

Dance director: no data

Dance ensemble: no data

Dancing type: no data

Dance subgenre: precision ensemble , tap dance , theater dance

Dance content: no data

Intertextuality

Source: borrowed from the musical repertoire

Quotation: no data