Best movie musical of the 1940s laced throughout with wonderful songs and dazzling hypnotic colors glowing futuristic, made to be seen and heard, meant to be experienced upon the big silver screen.
Not only is this one of the best visual sequences ever made but it also marks the hardest one of my best friends laughed in his life! Those floating heads! Don't get me started! Haha! Brilliant work.
The strangest most bizarre number Berkeley ever did and I don't mean that in a good way. Though the Tron moment is wonderful. If it only had been longer.
This is a great,funny song! Too bad the movie is little known, because it's a great one! Altough,I think the producers had been taking drugs when they shot the last scene of the song
Let’s talk just about the music for a minute. Once this number really gets underway (2:40) The underscoring (by an uncredited David Raksin) becomes more and more fantastic. This was only 1943 yet stylistically it’s far advanced from the type of music previously heard in movie musicals. First we get a sexy rhumba, then a sort of sophisticated bounce. Then the best yet: the sequence beginning at 5:42 is harmonically cosmic. The music truly matches the visuals with its kaleidoscopic chord structures and orchestration. I’m not aware that this finale is even mentioned in academic film music studies but I believe it’s pivotal. And those harmonies could only have been written by Raksin, a true modernist.
Cat Suit Amazons from another world attack Earth with giant glowing Necco wafers! Their Evil disembodied leaders chanting strange, out of tune war cries! Can anything survive?
Best movie musical of the 1940s laced throughout with wonderful songs and dazzling hypnotic colors glowing futuristic, made to be seen and heard, meant to be experienced upon the big silver screen.
I complained for years that the AFI had not selected this movie for the National Film Registry, but I see that in 2014 they finally did.
Not only is this one of the best visual sequences ever made but it also marks the hardest one of my best friends laughed in his life! Those floating heads! Don't get me started! Haha! Brilliant work.
"Floating heads" at the end, a little creepy.
Amazing filmmaking, given that this is way before electronics, digital, effects - mind-blowing.
I didn't know that the CIA had begun their LSD experiments back in 1943.
6:59 A JOURNEY TO A STAR
If you think this is off the chain, check out Berkeley's insane "By A Waterfall" from FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933).
One of the greatest film endings of all time. Never get tired of this one, floating heads and all!
That's some serious technology for 1943!! Amazing!
Don't tell me Kubrick wasn't influenced by this for the Jupiter mission sequence in '2001'
The most beautiful musical sequence ever. Ever.
This is your brain on drugs. This is your brain on Busby Berkeley. Try to tell the difference.
I come back at least once a year to watch this. It's pure genius.
One website describes this as "hallucinogenic." This is pretty bizarre. Not to mention this disembodied singing heads at the very end.
This is what "entertainment" use to be, boy do I miss it !
The strangest most bizarre number Berkeley ever did and I don't mean that in a good way. Though the Tron moment is wonderful. If it only had been longer.
Alice was so tuned in to what Buz was doing! Sheer Genius
The Closed Captions (subtitles) get several words wrong.
Disney Acid Sequence, aka What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made On Drugs?
A little strange
This is a great,funny song! Too bad the movie is little known, because it's a great one! Altough,I think the producers had been taking drugs when they shot the last scene of the song
Let’s talk just about the music for a minute. Once this number really gets underway (2:40) The underscoring (by an uncredited David Raksin) becomes more and more fantastic. This was only 1943 yet stylistically it’s far advanced from the type of music previously heard in movie musicals. First we get a sexy rhumba, then a sort of sophisticated bounce. Then the best yet: the sequence beginning at 5:42 is harmonically cosmic. The music truly matches the visuals with its kaleidoscopic chord structures and orchestration. I’m not aware that this finale is even mentioned in academic film music studies but I believe it’s pivotal. And those harmonies could only have been written by Raksin, a true modernist.
Cat Suit Amazons from another world attack Earth with giant glowing Necco wafers! Their Evil disembodied leaders chanting strange, out of tune war cries! Can anything survive?
ok that's it I'm never taking acid again. EVER!
It isn't everyday you have the opportunity to hear Eugene Pallette sing.
Fortunately.
This is your brain on drugs.
This is a MK Ultra trigger. No way it's not.
There is really no accounting for this.
Explain
The superb trio of Busby Berkely, Carmen Miranda and Technicolor
As much as I love Alice Faye, she seems distinctly bored in this number.
Probably tired, long hours take after take.