Busby Berkeley

See also: Berkeley

Busby Berkeley , of its true name William Berkeley Enos , is a Chorégraphe and American realizer born the November 29th 1895 with Los Angeles and deceased the March 14th 1976 with Palm Springs.

Biography

It mainly left its name to have created, in the American musical comedies of the Années 1930, of narcotics visual tables exploiting strong contrasts between the black and the white of the film. By the number of the dancers, their positions and their synchronization, the changes of scenery at sight and scientists sets of shades or reflections, Busby Berkeley could compose a great number of its Chorégraphie S on geometrical forms and very complex transitions sometimes. Its movements of cameras preferred were made vertical divings since the ceiling of the highest studios and of long sequence shots in Travelling S. Of fast displacements of camera on cables allowed him to begin in broad and remote plan to often finish, without visible Montage, on the detail of a face or the spangles of a decoration. Sometimes realizer of second team, it sometimes happened to him to eclipse in only a table, all the remainder of film, his intrigue and even his actors high-speed motorboats. He, for this reason, will have to come " racommoder" expensive productions which seemed, without an energetic intervention, likely to fail. Its past of warrant officer instructor in the American army makes it possible to better include/understand the meticulousness of a director who, thanks to an often dreaded authority, could compose to perfection of kaleidoscopic scientists movements mixing men, fluorescent women, accessories and moving decorations. Its skill to draw the best party from the constraints of the black and white will have enabled him to equalize the largest realizers and to be thus one of the promoters of a style " Arts-Déco " who will disappear soon with the Technicolor.

To make a " Busby Berkeley"

To film in total diving (taken of vertical sight with 90°) is named, in cinematographic jargon, " to make Busby Berkeley" , or " to make Berkeley". This process is indeed an invention of the choreographer.

Catalog of films

  • 1932 : Girl Crazy of William A. Seiter: choreographer not-credited with the credits
  • 1933: She Had to Say Yes : realizer
  • 1933: 42e street ( 42nd Street ) of Lloyd Bacon: choreographer
  • 1933: Enquiring of gold of 1933 ( Gold diggers off 1933 ): choreographer
  • 1933: Footlight Parades of Lloyd Bacon: choreographer
  • 1934: Ladies : Co-realizer with Ray Enright
  • 1935: Enquiring of gold ( Gold Diggers off 1935 ): realizer, choreographer
  • 1935: In the decoration ( Bright Lights ): realizer
  • 1935: I Live for Coils : realizer
  • 1936: Training course Struck : realizer
  • 1936: Gold Diggers off 1937 : Co-realizer with Lloyd Bacon, choreographer
  • 1937: The Go Getter : realizer
  • 1937: Hollywood Hotel : realizer, chorégaphe
  • 1938: Men Are such Fools : realizer
  • 1938: Garden off the Moon : realizer
  • 1938: Whim one evening ( Makes Over Broadway ): realizer
  • 1939: I am a criminal ( They Made has Me Criminal ): realizer
  • 1939: My husband still runs ( Fast and Furious ): realizer
  • 1939: Place at the rate/rhythm ( Babes in Arms ): realizer
  • 1939: Broadway Serenade of Robert Z. Leonard: realization of the final sequence
  • 1939: the Magician of OZ ( The Wizard off OZ ) of Victor Fleming: choreographer of a sequence of dance of the scarecrow, not retained with the assembly final  ; not-credited with the credits
  • 1940: Forty Little Mothers : realizer
  • 1940: Ahead the music (Stripe up the band) : realizer
  • 1941: the Dancer of the Madnesses Ziegfeld ( Ziegfeld Girl ) of Robert Z. Leonard: realization of the musical pieces
  • 1941: Lady Be Good of Norman Z. McLeod: realization of the musical pieces
  • 1941: Fair Inspiration : realizer
  • 1941: Beginnings in Broadway ( Babes one Broadway ): realizer
  • 1942: For me and my crumb ( For Me and My Gall ): realizer
  • 1943: Banana Split ( The Gang' S All Young stag ): realizer
  • 1943: Girl Crazy : replaced with the realization by Norman Taurog, choreographer of the number I got Rythm
  • 1946: Cinderella Jones : realizer
  • 1948: Lovesong in Rio ( Lovesong one the High Seas ): choreographer
  • 1949: Match of love ( Take Me Out to the Ball Range ): realizer
  • 1952: the First Siren ( Million Dollar Mermaid ) of Mervyn LeRoy: choreographer

External bond

  • Busby Berkeley on Internet Movie Database

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