Comments on: Busby. Berkeley. Ginger. Rogers. http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642 a weirdy stream... a freak kettle of pottish meanderings Sat, 18 May 2013 17:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: byronius http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642&cpage=1#comment-578241 byronius Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:11:38 +0000 http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642#comment-578241 ‘Golddiggers’ featured two hundred women; ‘Footlight Parade’ raised the ante to three hundred.

Excellent Fritz Lang. I shall watch it shortly. I’ve never seen the whole film, and I need to.

I had to buy the entire Busby Berkeley collection to get ‘Golddiggers’, and it is blowing my mind. ‘Footlight Parade’ is bizarre, quick, wicked — one must watch it in an altered state to truly appreciate it.

Ginger Rogers’ soul shocks me. Who was she, to be that character? Amazing.

]]> By: SkyHarbor http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642&cpage=1#comment-578239 SkyHarbor Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:58:14 +0000 http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642#comment-578239 James Whale’s 1931 ‘Frankenstein’ sort of pales in comparison, n’est ce pas? ;-}

]]> By: SkyHarbor http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642&cpage=1#comment-578237 SkyHarbor Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:43:16 +0000 http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642#comment-578237 Slightly earlier, in the post WWI bauhausian (is that even a word?) excess of Berlin…
Fritz Lang was having a darker vision:
Metropolis clip
(there is a brief snippet of the dancer with the goofy headgear in byronius’ ‘Forbidden’ clip…)
The shot with the eyes is SOooo Dali! ;-}
I think Lang DID sense the approaching catastrophe!…

]]> By: SkyHarbor http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642&cpage=1#comment-578235 SkyHarbor Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:11:17 +0000 http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642#comment-578235 Did they?

]]> By: SkyHarbor http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642&cpage=1#comment-578234 SkyHarbor Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:10:20 +0000 http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642#comment-578234 One can only imagine wandering the Hollywoodland dream lots of WB, MGM & Paramount in the early ’30′s…
Laudanum & reefer & champagne powered dreams of… forgetful (but not forgettable) excess…

I’m still trying to work out how the BB girls each had 3 inner thighs… but who’s counting?!

The ‘Forbidden’ clips truly is haunting with a sweetly ominous tinkly tune. The celluloid film sprockets go by and by and by… highly flammable!

Geometric gasping girls gyrate gorgeously…
The didn’t yet see the gathering storm ghastly cataclysm…

]]> By: byronius http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642&cpage=1#comment-578233 byronius Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:52:18 +0000 http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642#comment-578233

Quintessential Busby Freakout.

Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and Three Hundred Bathing Beauties.

Watch this. Can you see the Great Depression?

Witness The Hallucinogenic Snake Made Of Women.

]]> By: byronius http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642&cpage=1#comment-578232 byronius Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:44:52 +0000 http://new-worlds.org/blog/?p=3642#comment-578232

I am to be haunted. This just popped up.

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