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This is an interesting little addition to the Busby Berkeley box sets, placed on the extras section with the movie musical "Dames". Various narrators including cult figures, film historians and choreographers are given little bits of script to give an insight to the master-mind behind all these great musicals of the 1930s and 40s. Unfortunately, in these modern documentaries, that gives these little bits of trivia on artificial viewpoint, certainly not as fresh as the subject they discuss here. But for a short film that is less than 10 minutes, it is an interesting insight to Berkeley's life, how he rose up the ranks from choreographer to director, the hard times and how they affected his career, and the cult following he gained later on in his life. Clips of the various musicals are seen, but the film mostly focuses on "Dames". You can't capture a man's life in 10 minutes, but it is is a good attempt, and certainly evidence is proven that he was very influential in the art of moviemaking.

. . . Modern Day Broadway choreographer Randy Skinner reveals enviously near the end of BUSBY BERKELEY'S KALEIDOSCOPIC EYES. "Square Dance" . . . "Waltz" . . . even the "Tango:" you name it, Dance Classes were rampant for the Idle Rich in the 1930s. In our Advanced 21st Century, a Rich Idler--say a serial finger rapist perennial "reality show" Emmy losing Bankrupter of multiple gaming casinos--does not feel compelled to endure a Dance Class. Most such individuals would rather turn over America to the Rule of Communist Russia's KGB Genocide specialists in order to end Medicare, Medicade, Social Sercurity, Pollution Control, Minimum Wages, ObamaCare, Public Education, Food Inspection, Pharmaceutical Regulation, and Protection for Endangered Species rather than take a Dance Class. Clips are shown here of Mr. Berkeley's "Forgotten Man" number from GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933, this being the type of indictment of America's Idle Rich which you can expect from people who have NOT taken Dance Classes. However, now that the Rich Idlers themselves are running for President INSTEAD of taking Dance Class, America is clearly doomed. We 99 Per Centers can only hope for Busby's Second Coming.