Narrator (voice)
This audience sing-along features tunes from four musicals with the lyrics appearing on screen. Numbers include "Am I Blue?" from 1929's On with the Show!.
1948-07-17
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A little girl listens to a violinist playing on the bank of a river. The little girl wants to learn to play the instrument and asks the musician to teach her. The musician will lead her to learn the true secret of music.
In this Broadway Brevity short, a soda jerk/songwriter dreams (literally) of performing his songs on Broadway.
Santa's workers demand to be entertained and thus put on a musical show for themselves.
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami featuring the song "Fushiawase to Iu Na no Neko" by Maki Asakawa.
During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to close its doors, unless the proprietor, William Jenkins, does something different, so he allows his 12-year-old son to put on a kiddie show that packs the house.
At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball.
June has been living rough. Her truck has been doubling as her home for a little too long. Her hopes extinguished by the city of broken dreams. She lives to please no-one, outside of the oppressive male-gaze. She just wants to sweat a little bit.
The last person on Earth revisits their memories as they wander a lonely world
Animation with coloured salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music by Johann Strauss performed by the Strauss Festival Orchestra.
An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the station through the countryside to its destination. The film consists of a montage of shots, some close up, of the engine and its gears and wheels. With the accompanying ambient sounds and an orchestral score, the emphasis is on the engine's power and speed. Parallel lines of multiple tracks, telephone wires, and trees confirm a careful composition.
A farmer wanted words to go with the tune he was playing when he saw a frog sitting on the bank of the stream. The frog did something silly which gave the farmer the words for his song. The farmer went to the corner store to sing his song for people there.
In a small village ruled by ridiculous laws, three singing sisters and their dog rehearse for the Annual Autumn Festival. But an unexpected event will disrupt their plans.
Set in the future: Two men learn that a mysterious winged girl has been taken prisoner, and then decide that they must free her at any cost.
A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie, set to the music of Parade performed by the Dutch Willem Breuker Kollektief.
In a forest of giant trees, six-year-old Oquirá embarks on a quest to understand life.
Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.
"Nothing Escapes My Eyes" is about a silent transformation of a place and a human being. Inspired by the texts of Edward W. Said, the poems of Mahmoud Darwish and Verdi’s opera Aida, the film depicts in a metaphoric form current issues of cultural identity, loss and the pressures to conform. With no dialogue, the film is backed by a musical excerpt from Aida whose lyrics express the difficulties of being loyal to one’s country and cultural identity. The personal and urban transformation tackles on issues of identity, loss and disorientation as a result of historical colonialism and contemporary globalization.
The Gay Parisian is an American short film produced in 1941 by Warner Bros. featuring the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo and directed by Jean Negulesco. The film is a screen adaptation, in Technicolor, of the 1938 ballet Gaîté Parisienne, choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Jacques Offenbach. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 14th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).