Busby Berkeley "The Gang's All There" Finale 1943

[@wbcook1000]

Amazing. Way ahead of its time for the musical style and graphics.

[@Jgjules]

wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy ahead of its time. This looks like it could be produced anytime bw the 70s til now

[@GemmaEdwardsDance]

These are ridiculously futuristic for its time, what a legend!!!

[@jaymzbeesez]

Cool ending for a so-so film...but his earlier work is even more amazing. He did special effects (Look Ma - no CGI) that people still can't figure out. Check out "Dames", "Footlight Parade" and others from the thirties!

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

I am high watching this dude. This is awesome. This dude definitely smoked

[@UriahD85]

Acid makes it 60000 more magnified

[@MattMurdockCZ]

If he did he wouldn't have the brain capacity to create such masterpiece

[@mariaabrosimova5370]

same haha

[@johnmitchelljr]

Don’t need drugs just need artistic imagination. I’m 77 and have never seen this. Guess how I feel. Thanks made my day.

[@sunshinedaydream70]

Nah, drugs probably helped,lol

[@jamesryan6008]

It's not every day you get to hear Eugene Pallette, Edward Everett Horton and Benny Goodman sing. In fact, Goodman sings 3 times in this movie.

[@sandaglad]

Yes, and you can only cringe everytime.

[@danawinsor1380]

@@sandaglad I think this film sets a record for cringy.

[@josharagon4618]

Surreal musical fantasy

[@jorgeperozo5437]

Que espectaculo!!!! Tiene 78 años y pareciera que hubiese sido filmado hace poco tiempo es una belleza total que hombre tan visionario!!!

[@1776Based]

Trippy

[@NolaNola-y4r]

オリンピックのデモンストレーションはバークレー演出から来てるんでしょうね。映画における彼の演出は華麗でどこか危険な熱狂や不健康さがあって大好きですよ。「上海リル」のジェームズ・キャグニーが良いです。日本ではこの歌が評判になって、「上海帰りのリル」「私がリルよ」などのアンサーソングやインスパイアソングが生まれ、ヒットしました。

[@julesgamingnstuff]

I love the transition at around 1:53, so amazing!

[@herbertlongfellow7702]

I believe the film is called 'The Gang's All Here'.

[@zopvihbob]

Winner winner chicken dinner

[@chem100]

Wow! Just wow!

[@JoMarieM]

Most of Busby Berkeley's stuff is pretty impressive, but this one was just. . .weird. If I hadn't known what year it was filmed, I would have thought it was made in the 90s. It was definitely pretty trippy! I enjoy his older works a lot more!

[@danawinsor1380]

Yes, weird and trippy. When the singing disembodied faces start flying out towards you, it was like an acid trip for a little while. Probably best not to watch while on drugs.

[@michaelcornett444]

This is your brain on Busby Berkeley.

[@Jack-Lack]

The song is not "La La La" by Elastic Band. It is "Journey To A Star" by Harry Warren

[@claudetteja]

what's the song before that tho?

[@MrEjidorie]

It‘s so awesome. I cannot believe that this magnificient movie was produced during the Pacific War. While Imperial Japan was devastated, the United States continued to produce such amazing movies as a dream factory. Japan should not have gone to war against the United States indeed.

[@williamwebb7917]

The Gang's All Here, not there.

[@anastasiaromanov3863]

Loveliness

[@karenrhjackson3288]

FABULOUS FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE MOVIE

[@td3993]

wow!

[@Hel7100]

Best part is the lace of the doll's sleeve turning into the red rings. That's the kind of thing I'd like to do in animation.

[@howardhays8044]

Years ago had chat with composer of the piece - David Raksin (“Laura”) - told me how on set Busby Berkeley let him ride on camera crane to top of actual mirrored kaleidoscope they’ d built for filming. Also complained that Berkeley insisted on faster tempo than what he’d intended.

[@sneadh1]

Are those disks recycled coins from We're In The Money.?

[@theartistformallyknownas2677]

1940s vapor wave

[@mylifemyrules8134]

4:47 Benny Goodman actually had a great singing voice!

[@histubeness]

The floating heads were right out of an acid trip, ---but amazing special effects for the time.

[@thermionic1234567]

Probably mushrooms or peyote…

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

Movie magic!

[@kentclark6420]

Were they tripping back then?

[@deliarodriquez4989]

Some of these director were born before there time.today director wont be that create.

[@elliottmanning]

How could the girls dance with Neon Tubes??? Neon takes a high voltage to light up!!!

[@chem100]

The insurance waiver must have been amazing.

[@stephenindc9102]

Very high voltage, but low amp. Can be done with care. Probably would not be allowed today. But Buzz was crazy, and did crazy stuff. LOL

[@vgfxworks]

.. by today standards was a highly perilous job indeed... but they were tripping, or maybe we are.

[@christobell555]

Never taken acid but this is what I imagine it would be like. 🙄

[@avegillman6184]

Puts “Tron” and the ending of “2001: A Space Odyssey” into perspective, doesn’t it?

[@steveliveshere]

Ave Gillman and the ending of ’The Black Hole’ 1979.

[@Kieran84ire]

was just about to write Tron directors must have referenced this!

[@esmeephillips5888]

And 'Lawnmower Man'.

[@BleedingEdgeOfProgress]

0:51 Almost a bit Cyberpunk...

[@8176morgan]

Great video but they cut off the final few seconds of it for some reason. Also, the title of the movie is called " The Gang's All Here", and not "The Gang's All There".

[@jimmileski2428]

Maybe the Gang is both here AND there with whatever they were taking.

[@esmeephillips5888]

The gang may have been all here, but the director was not all there.

[@アリアーヌ]

近未来を予感させる始まりから女性達のダンスへ。とても美しい。

[@66kprdwd]

Look at this and tell me Busby Berkeley didn't do drugs. ;) Totally psychedelic.

[@gorecki4612]

1943

[@MarkSmith-dx3cd]

I literally just said this same thing to my girlfriend and crashed on to your comment. Yer Dead to it.

[@8176morgan]

@ Gorecki. The same year that LSD was invented!

[@wildcatherder]

I’m thinking mescaline because you get geometric shapes in hallucinations.

[@DarthFrodo]

Something very creepy about those singing disembodied heads looking at you.

[@juliemerritt8082]

I wish they had shown andy and Alice Fayes Character getting together finally.

[@gorecki4612]

where can I find ladies like this?

[@vgfxworks]

those heads at the end are kinda frightening ..

[@kentclark6420]

Check out 'Zardoz', with Sean Connery, (RIP).

[@vgfxworks]

@@kentclark6420 I know the movie Zardoz. but there is somehow expected, here on this movie looks a bit creepy in the middle of those dreamy magical views. LOL

[@ericweiss777]

Wow no Cgi all organic

[@sneadh1]

Neon's not organic. :)

[@tomrdee]

I'm sorry. Not his best work compared to what he did in the 30's

[@kevincoxhead7137]

I totally agree. Compare this with ANY of his work from the '30s. This is awful. way beneath his talent. The floating heads at the end..horrible. There's way too much time spent on each "effect" and they're not great.

[@munchner8656]

Yes, especially when you compare the whole movie (and not only this scene - which is not bad - to his early 1930s comedies.

[@farfisa]

I'm sorry I did not get to see your creative output which I presume far exceeded Busby's best.

[@gmar7836]

True

[@kentclark6420]

I like it. I have a fondness for the avant garde.

[@kitjones89]

so... cause trauma to the world's psyche through the war, and marinade the survivors in hallucinatory films... no explicit meaning, just subliminal suggestion.... no wonder the world was in a weird shape when I got here...

[@stannnleee3440]

These formations work perfectly because there is no forced diversity or body positivity. Everyone is on the same page and on point!

[@Lorianne5190]

I see redheads, blondes and brunettes, so I don't know what you mean. 🤷‍♀️

[@radwizard]

Big Lebowski brought me here.

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

I gotta watch that movie dude

[@herbertlongfellow7702]

Next opening ceremony at that LA Olympics. Will be very apt. Very beautiful. Very non controversial. Although they'll alway be someone who'll moan...

[@jjmcurrain960]

THIS IS DEFINITELY MILKDROP 1943

[@Shtove]

What the feckin' hell? Who's that winky ginger near the end?

[@juliemerritt8082]

Begob that was Alice Faye and she was singing The Poka Dot Polka.

[@tommoncrieff1154]

This is just surreal, nightmarish and other worldly. In the 1930s Busby B worked spectacularly well in black and white with no post production SFX except for maybe reversing the footage. Here he seems disorientated by garish colour and post-production, it's just weird. Most of the dancers look bored and their timing and positioning is less than immaculate. The sequences are bizarre and drag. A curiosity.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Yes, check out the girl in the foreground at 2:57, wobbling and flapping her left hand. Berkeley often left glitches in the final cut. He worked on the Michael Curtiz principle: 'I make it go so fast, nobody notice.' Buzz did not always notice either, never having been a dancer or choreographer.

[@bricology]

The goofiest thing I have ever seen. And I've seen Ed Wood's entire _oeuvre._

[@wetlazer2443]

Pretty rough, not his best.

[@farfisa]

I'm sorry I did not get to see your creative output which I presume far exceeded Busby's best.

[@laobok]

@@farfisa You first.

[@gdouglas999]

Not one of his best.

[@joev4545]

Sub par musical number