That's Entertainment! 1974
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
This documentary presents clips from black films from 1929 through 1957.
That’s Entertainment/The Conjuror’s Assistants is an attempt to reveal some problems inherent in vérité documentary such as voyeurism, the nature/extent of a vérité intervention and audience “passivity”. A frame by frame analysis of just 100ft of documentary footage taken at a children’s Christmas party, the film shows the young man “entertaining” the adults and children and his two young assistants, the a younger boy and an older girl, and the reaction of the audience – men and women supervising children of both sexes. The visible materiality of the film is used to distance the action and encourage a reading the film as a 'text.
Honoring African-American films from the 1920s through the 1950s, this documentary explores comedies of the period and pays particular attention to the vaudeville numbers of Boarding House Blues (1948), starring Moms Mabley and Dusty Fletcher. A segment from the series "That's Black Entertainment," this documentary program narrated by actor Mario Van Peebles includes interviews and classic footage.
Dennis Awe performs in Orlando, Florida.