Busby Berkeley Wonder Bar

[@esmeephillips5888]

The kaleidoscopic overhead formation routine at 3:03 runs for a full minute- possibly the longest of its type by Buzz or anyone. No instant playbacks then, and no CGI: a nerve-wracking tour de force for everyone involved.

[@Fantomas4616]

impressive...or not?

[@martinjb55]

Love Busby Berkley, his vision was unique and helped rescue the Movie Musical of the 1930s.

[@kenbritton6782]

My Mother said she went to see this movie when she was 8 in a letter to her Sister that she kept all these years. I wish I could see the whole movie. Never heard of this one before. Impressive stuff.

[@iainrobb2076]

There's no torrents of it anywhere. I had to buy an imported DVD copy released by Warners Archives.

[@iainrobb2076]

@@berjaboy Thanks, but I already own it now.

[@richardwesley3564]

That's Dolores Del Rio and Ricardo Cortez as the two performers who come out to take the bow at the end. Del Rio was a pretty big star at the time and Cortez was popular enough, but not a major star. He had a long career, too; well into the 60s as a character actor in film and television, I think.

[@yana1955]

Dolores Del Rio was incredibly beautiful.

[@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci]

Indeed. Dolores DEL Rio is one of the most incredible beauties of her diet. day. Unfortunately, she was a terrible actress, but just to look at her was enough

[@sschimel]

Ricardo Cortez, bee Jacob Krantz made his last screen appearance in a 1960 episode of Bonanza.

[@thomasgansevoort929]

Yes, "Why can't this go on forever?".

[@AussieKim42]

Decades before the drone was invented, too. Terrifying to think how heavy that moving camera above their heads must have been.

[@markbraunstein58]

This was the trigger for the Great Peroxide Shortage of 1934

[@maxlinder5262]

LOL 🤣😆...

[@QuickWorksBeauty]

Ha!

[@justinepenman6081]

Great dancing

[@juliefrancis7266]

Busby Berkeley also used a lot of mirrors

[@ianboard544]

I'm guessing this was pre-code.

[@balok63a40]

Indeed it was - one of the last pre-code musicals to be released.

[@josephsmith6944]

Beautiful Blonde Women make Life worth Living ❤😊.

[@paulmason6474]

No black performers - quite telling of the time❤

[@simon23]

All blondes. No brunettes or redheads.

[@harrietweber2520]

​​@@simon23those were wigs, part of the uniformity of the costume

[@willx9352]

No ugly people or old people either.

[@maxlinder5262]

.. NO .. WOKE .. Stuff... LOL 🤣😆

[@Skedawg88]

@@harrietweber2520 Wigs or not, all blonde.

[@michaelsiebielec5554]

Great movie that is cancelled now because of a blackface sequence.

[@Mike-nt9sx]

Weird fetishism

[@JC-nl3nh]

would we believe entertainment was this great had it not been on film for us to see and we only had modern garbage?

[@Skedawg88]

Yes, pretty much all modern film is garbage. I agree.

[@lorenengland4079]

Two great inventions: audio and video. Without those two things, that talent would die when the show closed.