A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film
- Author: Barrios, Richard
This lively, intelligent and well-researched survey tells the tumultuous and often delightfully absurd saga of the film industry's frantic, disaster-laced efforts in the late 1920's and early... — More…
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Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 VITAPHONE PRELUDE
- 2 THE SOUND BARRIER
- 3 YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME
- 4 ON WITH THE SHOW!
- 5 FINDING A VOICE
- 6 DUELING MAMMIES
- 7 HOLLYWOOD, REVUED
- 8 BROADWAY BABIES
- 9 WITH ALL ITS ORIGINAL STAGE ENCHANTMENT
- 10 JUST IMAGINE
- 11 THE CUCKOOS
- 12 OF VIENNESE NIGHTS AND GOLDEN DAWNS
- 13 IS IT A MUSICAL?
- 14 THE MARCH OF TIME
- 15 VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS
- 16 WE'RE IN THE MONEY
- 17 THE PAST AS PROLOGUE
- FINALE
- Appendix One:
- NOTES ON LOST FILMS
- Appendix Two:
- A SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY: EARLY MUSICALS ON RECORD
- SOURCE NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX