My friend DeSoto Brown in Honolulu found an amazing Scopitone and wrote, “This video appears to encompass many of the nightlife themes you espouse in your blog, in one appealing package.”
Ethel Ennis sings “I’ve Got That Feeling” Enjoy!
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I’m a recently discovered fan of the Scopitone films ( http://billchance.org/2011/10/08/scopitone/ ) – love the one you linked to! It’s nice to see one with quality, not simply cheese.
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I can only hope that…
This visual smorgasborg will inspire the cinematographers of today – Sven Kirsten, for one example.
And, in an ideal world, the nightclubs of today would mimic this parade of talent, costuming, lighting, and decor.
Especially since there are no longer any Scopitone machines to tempt us into “stopping for a minute, being entertained for hours” (as one of the newspaper ads on the Scopitone site tells us.)
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Arrrgh, now you’ve done, got me hooked on the Scopitone channel again! I really wanna know WHO their crazy out-of-sync choreographer was! Love the visual crescendo of the rotating prism effect. Curiously, this apt portrayal of American nightlife was committed to film by ze French (I believe) – not unlike the best depiction of Tiki night-clubbing being filmed by Russians in Havana in I AM CUBA, n’est pas?
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I’ve added a link in the first paragraph to Scopitone for those of you who are unfamiliar with the technology.
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