Singin in the Rain
Singin in the Rain is about this important development in film history
What is the transition to talking pictures?
What is Colombia?
What is Monterrey?
This style of dance allows performers to become part of the music, creating complex rhythms with their feet.
What is tap dance?
This style of variety show entertainment inspired Golden Age musicals
What is Vaudeville?
Singin in the Rain takes place in this decade.
What is the 1920s?
This musical number about shouldering burdens for others is inspired by cumbia and reggaeton.
What is Surface Pressure?
This is the term for how all of the elements in an image are arranged, including points, lines, shapes, depth, space, textures and patterns, color and tone, angle, and balance.
What is composition?
When editing dance in film, this length of cuts allow the audience to appreciate the flow of dance better.
What are long takes?
This agreement between Hollywood studios set strict regulations like forbidding lustful kissing, rewarding crime, or people of different races touching on film
What is the Hayes Code?
This person directed, choreographed, and played the lead role in Singin in the Rain.
Who is Gene Kelly?
Music or dance that combines elements from different cultural backgrounds could be called this.
What is syncretic?
Ulises' gang who gather to dance and wear unique styles of clothing and hair go by this name.
What are Terkos?
This shot size is often used to film dance because it allows the audience to see the performer's entire body.
What is Full Shot?
These Hollywood studio owners controlled every aspect of their stars' public lives
What are Moguls?
This musical number from Singin in the Rain features three of the lead characters singing and dancing around the house after deciding to make a musical.
What is Good Morning?
This upbeat style of music featuring accordion and percussion instruments inspired the opening number "The Family Madrigal"
What is Vallenata?
This is the proportion of an image's width to its height.
What is aspect ratio?
This is the name of the person who creates the dance steps for a film or performance.
What is a choreographer?
These were loveless, arranged marriages between gay or lesbian celebrities and partners chosen to make them look straight.
What are lavender marriages?
This is the name of the film inside the film of Singin in the Rain.
What is the Dancing Cavalier (or Dueling Cavalier)?
This musical instrument, basically a stick with ridges that you play by gliding a mallet across the surface, is heavily featured in guarija and vallenata music.
What is a guacharaca?
What is cumbia relajada?
This method of describing dance breaks down movement into space, time, weight, and flow.
What is Laban Movement Analysis?
This first "talking picture" included Blackface minstrel performances.
What is The Jazz Singer?