![]() ![]() Have a look at this incredible scene in the video below from the Warner Archive. Find your perfect arrangement and access a variety of transpositions so you can print and play instantly, anywhere. Just think of all the hard work and planning they went through- with no CGI to help out. 'By A Waterfall' Sheet Music Footlight Parade Browse our 1 arrangement of 'By A Waterfall.' Sheet music is available for Piano, Voice, Guitar with 1 scoring in 5 genres. The scene puts special effects in film today to shame. guitar ukulele piano Animated Summary Enjoy your free song You have one free song remaining today. ![]() Volume loop 100 tempo capo transpose midi print We've chordified the first 10 minutes of this song. The “By a Waterfall” scene of the film employed the use of a lighted pool with 20 diving platforms and a team of 300 swim dancers in scanty diamanté illusion swimsuitsto create a host of visual effects, many of which were filmed from overhead so as to capture the designs created by the swimmers. Dick Powell - By A Waterfall (Footlight Parade (1933)) by: Dick Powell Ruby Keeler Diagrams Overview Improve 3, 2, 1. He decides that live action “prologues” for films are the ticket to his renewed success and so the folly begins. The film centers around a Broadway director whose career is flopping as audiences cease their trips to the theater in favor of going to the movies. Some of Berkeley’s most memorable film scenes include feats that simply couldn’t be achieved in real life, like the choreography for dancers in giant white Jenny Lind rocking chairs from Gold Diggers of 1933or his extravagant couples dance scene from Fast and Furious (no relation to the modern franchise) featuring dozens of tap dancing women dressed in scandalous harem costumes.īerkeley’s 1933 film, Footlight Parade, was one of these films that set the imagination flying. During the Great Depression many people sought the cheap seats and air conditioning that going to the movies offered, not to mention the escapism of fantasy and whimsy. One of the masters of this latter style was the choreographer, Busby Berkeley, who was able to create movie scenes that literally awed people. Film productions ranged from more humble dramas to glamorous musicals filled with every conceivable type of glitter and glitz. Many Hollywood films of the 1930s could be truly dazzling spectacles. By A Waterfall, Footlight Parade, 1933 Producing over 50 movie musicals during in his quarter-century career, Berkeley was inducted into the National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame in 1988.
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