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Query: What was the first musical movie?
Musical short films were made by Lee de Forest in 1923–24. Beginning in 1926, thousands of Vitaphone shorts were made, many featuring bands, vocalists, and dancers. The earliest feature-length films with synchronized sound had only a soundtrack of music and occasional sound effects that played while the actors portrayed their characters just as they did in silent films: without audible dialogue.[1] The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was the first to include an audio track including non-diegetic music and diegetic music, but it had only a short sequence of spoken dialogue. This feature-length film was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face", "Toot, Toot, Tootsie", "Blue Skies", and "My Mammy". Historian Scott Eyman wrote, "As the film ended and applause grew with the houselights, Sam Goldwyn's wife Frances looked around at the celebrities in the crowd. She saw 'terror in all their faces', she said, as if they knew that 'the game they had been playing for years was finally over'."[2] Still, only isolated sequences featured "live" sound; most of the film had only a synchronous musical score.[1] In 1928, Warner Brothers followed this up with another Jolson part-talkie, The Singing Fool, which was a blockbuster hit.[1] Theaters scrambled to install the new sound equipment and to hire Broadway composers to write musicals for the screen.[3] The first all-talking feature, Lights of New York, included a musical sequence in a night club. The enthusiasm of audiences was so great that in less than a year all the major studios were making sound pictures exclusively. The Broadway Melody (1929) had a show-biz plot about two sisters competing for a charming song-and-dance man. Advertised by MGM as the first "All-Talking, All-Singing, All-Dancing" feature film, it was a hit and won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1929. There was a rush by the studios to hire talent from the stage to star in lavishly filmed versions of Broadway hits. The Love Parade (Paramount 1929) starred Maurice Chevalier and newcomer Jeanette MacDonald, written by Broadway veteran Guy Bolton.[3]
Made-for-TV movie musicals have also become popular. One prime example is the "High School Musical" series, which aired its first two films on the Disney Channel. The first television movie was so successful that a sequel was produced, "High School Musical 2", that debuted in August 2007 to 17.2 million viewers (this made it the highest-rated non-sports program in the history of basic cable and the highest-rated made-for-cable movie premiere on record). Due to the popularity of the first two films, the second "HSM" sequel, "", was released as a theatrical film in 2008 instead of airing on Disney Channel; "High School Musical 3" became one of the highest-grossing movie musicals.
When asked about his motivation in opening a movie theater in the first place, "What we set out to do in the very beginning was to make a movie theater by fans for fans. And we got into the business because we love movies and we got a little frustrated with our options as to what the movie theater experience was all about".
The film is about the lifestyle of 3 close college friends who live their life on their own terms without concern of what people may think. But accidentally they insulted one child who was regularly met them for the donation. This 3 Bindaas boys insulted him very roughly and after that they came to know that the boy was from NGO. NGO was working for Mentally Disabled Children. Harikaka (Kirti Thakar) was a care Taker of the NGO, and their NGO is situated at Prime Location. Builder and Big Business Tycoon Siddhant Thakkar was an owner of that Premise, and he wanted back. This 3 Bindaas boys emotianally attached with NGO and try to help Harikaka. But their Image on family not supported them. They are not getting any support from their families. Now What ? and film start with fast ups and downs with emotional scenes, fantastic climax makes film on different era. Film is with a social message. WHAT YOUTH CAN DO? is nicely shown in the film. ATCB is 100% family entertainer movie. Friendship, Romance, Emotions, Drama, Humor are nicely developed by the writer, director Nishant Dave. Film is about 3 hours 5 minute duration, but movie has a strong screenplay which is running with a good flow. Music is a strong part of the film. First time ever Gujarati Sufi song is made in the Gujarati Cinema. Prayer, Party Song, Reprise songs, Situational song on MAA are the different flavour of music. Nikunj Aradeshana has done a wonderful job. Background music is also very remarkable. Locations are awesome. Colourful cinematic film. Each and every part of the film is capable to compare this movie with Bollywood movie.
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Goldman later said he intended "Father's Day" to be book two of a trilogy with the third book called "The Settle for Less Club". It was going to be about Amos in Hollywood when the movie of his musical is being made. Goldman:
What happens is, Amos decides to marry the girl, who was his mistress, and wants to bring the daughter out for the wedding, but his ex-wife comes too. The two of them get together, and what you do in life, basically is settle for less. Anyway, I don't know if I'll ever write it because the movie business has shifted. At the time I was writing the trilogy, it was standard that if the musical was a hit on Broadway, they would make a movie out of it, but that doesn't happen anymore.
As of 2013 no third novel has resulted.
Chackler first met film director Tom Holland (his current partner) when Lemel brought him in to develop the music and Soundtrack for what became the "Fright Night" movie. Chackler also served as the music supervisor for other films with Holland, including : Child's Play and Fatal Beauty, where LeVert's, "Casanova" was originally featured.
Clarke has written scores for television and movies. His first score, for "Pee-wee's Playhouse", was nominated for an Emmy Award. He also composed music for the movies "Boyz n the Hood", "Passenger 57", and "What's Love Got to Do with It", the television programs "Lincoln Heights" and "Soul Food", and the video for "Remember the Time" by Michael Jackson.
Schwartz was recommended to Menken by people at Disney. On a documentary of the soundtrack, Alan says that after he thought about it he realized that Stephen's style would be perfect for the film's music because of his writing that is a brilliant combination of theater, folk, and classic. Alan said, "I just really felt that he and I would be able to find a voice that was unique to the two of us together, and we did." The first song they wrote together was "Colors of the Wind". According to Jim Pentecost, the producer of the film, the emotion of the lyrics and music for "Colors of the Wind" was very powerful and defined the movie and what it was going to be about. The song was written at the beginning stages of developing the story. Jim Pentecost said, "When Stephen came up with the title "Colors of the Wind" and developed his lyric, it helped greatly to tell us what this movie should be."
Molly is a fan of music and movies, and you will hear a Molly's Music segment every Thursday ranging from singing to the songs of the 80s onto a Tribute to Marvin Gaye. Molly also will give you all the scoop on movies before they hit the theaters and tell you what is worth watching and what to skip at the theaters. Molly will get the 'behind the scenes' interviews with Directors and Actors for your favorite movies.
His first movie was Ongaku Kigeki - Horoyui Jinsei (English: "Musical Comedy - Intoxicated Life"), which was released in 1933. It was a comedy about the joys of beer drinking. This was the very first production of what was soon to become Toho Co., Ltd., the biggest and wealthiest studio during the so-called "Golden Age" of Japanese cinema of the 1950s and early 1960s. In fact, most of his movies, for 40 years, were made with Toho.
Jayanta Hazarika composed music for feature films, documentaries and stage-plays. In his brother Bhupen Hazarika's directorial venture 'Chikmik Bijuli', Jayanta composed his first song for a movie. Jayanta composed and sang the song "Mrityu xawati samadhi tolit" in this movie where Bhupen Hazarika was the music director. He also composed the background score for this movie. In 1971 Jayanta Hazarika began as independent music director with the movie 'Bonoria phul'. Later on he gave music to 'Niyoti', 'Brishti', 'Dharmakaai' and 'Natun asha'. Music for Natun asha was complete by Manisha Hazarika following his untimely death. He also worked as a music director of several documentary films.
“It’s the music to a movie we conceptualized,” Hegna has said about the record. “The movie doesn’t actually exist, [but] each character in ‘the movie’ has a theme and the various themes ... are developed and recur through various permutations as the events change and as the characters are affected by what happens in the story.”
During the first decade of the 21st century, the American Film Institute celebrated 100 years of the greatest films in American cinema. Four of Streisand's songs were represented on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs, which highlighted "America's Greatest Music in the Movies": "The Way We Were" at #8, "Evergreen (Love Theme From "A Star Is Born")" at # 16, "People" at #13, and "Don't Rain on My Parade" at #46. Many of her films were represented on AFI's 100 Years ... series. AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs, highlighting "the films and film artists that have made audiences laugh throughout the century," ranked "What's Up, Doc?" at #61. AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions highlighted the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and placed "The Way We Were" at #8, "Funny Girl" at #41, and "What's Up, Doc?" at #68. AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals highlighted the 25 greatest American movie musicals, ranking "Funny Girl" at #16.
The film's score was composed by Michael Giacchino. On June 10, 2013, Giacchino tweeted that , Robert Ziegler & Tim Simonec they were conducting the film's score at Abbey Road Studios in London. In August, Giacchino stated: "We're actually recording all the music first, before they're even done shooting. It's been done sort of backwards, and it's much more freeing doing it that way. I'm not locked down to any specific timings and what the film is doing. I can do whatever I want. It opens up a lot more possibilities." The Wachowskis first used this approach during production of "Cloud Atlas" at the recommendation of co-director Tom Tykwer who has made all his movies this way, and have since commented they will never make a movie without recording the music first.
The first opening title sequence associated with "The 4:30 Movie" was a motif of a film crew setting up studio lights and adjusting a movie camera, and ending with a director sitting in a chair and holding a bullhorn before the title zoomed in; this was used from 1969 until circa 1973. The most famous image associated with the show's opening, a silhouetted image of a "rotating cameraman" operating a 35 mm movie camera, was animated by Harry Marks and used on WABC-TV from around 1973 to 1980. This opening was also applied to the station's other movie shows, and was used for their "Saturday Night Movie" and "Sunday Night Movie" as late as 1987, with the theme music still in use up to 1991. The "rotating cameraman" footage originated from the opening titles for the weekend edition of the "ABC Movie of the Week" in 1971 . From 1980 to the end, "The 4:30 Movie"'s opening titles were similar to what was used for "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" and "The ABC Friday Night Movie" in the late 1970s, except with different theme music ("Skippin' " by Ramsey Lewis, from his 1977 album "Tequila Mockingbird").
Music videos were produced for the first two singles "Because We Can" and the album titled track "What About Now". A music video was also made for the Jon Bon Jovi solo single "Not Running Anymore" which is included on the album as a bonus track along with the track "Old Habits Die Hard". Both songs feature on the soundtrack to the movie "Stand Up Guys". On December 13, 2012 it was announced that "Not Running Anymore" would be nominated for a Golden Globe Award
Jayanta Hazarika's musical career began with him accompanying his brother Bhupen Hazarika in stages and recordings. The first two songs Jayanta recorded with HMV were "Aagoli botahe kopale kolore paat" and "Krishnachura Krishnachura" which became instant hits and started his professional musical career. In 1963, Jayanta did his first playback singing with the song "Sonar baran pakhire tor" along with Shyamal Mitra for the movie 'Maniram Dewan'. Bhupen Hazarika was the music director for this movie. Jayanta along with Himangshu Biswas worked as assistant music director for this movie. Thereafter Jayanta began full-time singing and music composition. Jayanta Hazarika worked as assistant music director for Bhupen Hazarika's movie 'Loti-Ghoti' and 'Chikmik Bijuli'. He did small roles for two Assamese movies 'Loti-Ghoti' and 'Chikmik bijuli'
"Subramaniapuram" has five songs composed by James Vasanthan. This is the first time a Tamil movie featured a promotional song. (The song does not feature in the movie but has been released to media). Sasikumar spoke of his apprehension to approach an established music director as he was a debut director himself. 'I was not sure whether they would listen to me and give me what I wanted' he said in an interview. Vasanthan had been Sasikumar's music teacher at St. Peter's boarding school in Kodaikkanal. Sasikumar approached James with the project and the music became a remarkable success. The film brought Vasanthan into prominence with the film's songs and background score gaining fame and being praised and the song "Kangal Irandal" topping the charts and being cited as the "anthem of the year among the youth".
Upon graduation in 1967 they co-directed their first feature film: "Vertical". It was one of the first Soviet movies dedicated to mountaineering and also featured Vladimir Vysotsky in a minor role. As Vysotsky later recalled, "it was my first movie in the sense that I worked as an author (for the first time I wrote songs for a movie) – I was the author of both songs and music". All songs turned into instant hits, they were released by the Melodiya record label on the extended play and basically started Vysotsky's musical career. The movie itself became one of the leaders of the 1967 Soviet box office, reaching the 13th place (10th place among Soviet-produced movies) with 32.8 million viewers.
What They Play was a video game-centric website aimed at helping parents learn about content in video games, helping them decide what games their children should play. It was the first of several websites to launch under "What They Like, Inc.", other sites featuring books, movies and music followed.
The initial concept was to write the soundtrack to a film. The band decided to change direction given the inconsistencies and other issues which movies can undergo. As vocalist Sharon den Adel commented:
""What happened was that we wanted to write lyrics for a movie. We were searching for a good movie with a good story and everybody had different release dates. If something goes wrong, a movie can very easily be postponed for a year, and we couldn't take the chance to have to wait for that, otherwise we would have had to postpone our album as well. So we decided to take the matter in our own hands.""
In searching for a new concept, they approached the writer of "The Chronicles of Spellborn" comics, who introduced the band to Steven O'Connell. However, upon his first meeting with the band, he failed to impress them with ideas involving zombies and fantasy, while they were hoping for a more mature approach rather than something unclear and superficial. Sharon explained that, in trying to describe to O'Connell what they were looking for, ""We told him what kind of movies we liked, what kind of books we read, and he thought about it and he came up with a basic idea, like 2 or 3 lines. The story is about people who have done bad things. Not because they are bad, but because they made bad decisions.""
Following the formation of the initial ideas, O'Connell completed the rest of the story with additional suggestions from the band. For example, Sinéad was initially a South American woman named Maya, but, as the music to "Sinéad" had already been completed, Sharon requested that the name and nationality be changed. While shooting the three short films and music videos, "Mother Maiden" ("Faster"), "Sinéad" and "Triplets" ("Shot in the Dark"), the band and director (Joeri Holsheimer) came up with several other ideas, among them which song would connect to which story. The band's decision to shoot three short films was mostly to avoid the restrictions imposed on music videos, as Sharon explained:
""...we wanted to put all the money into the movies. You have a budget and then you have to make choices and, to be honest, MTV and everything, it is not so big anymore. And when you make videos, they always say "you can't use blood, you can't use guns, you can't use..." and we wanted to use everything: blood, guns... everything!""
A trailer of "Give You What You Like" was first released on Lavigne's official Vevo on 2 February 2015 at a total length of thirty seconds. The full music video was released on her official Vevo on 10 February 2015. The music video includes footage from the Lifetime TV movie "Babysitter's Black Book", which was released on February 21, 2015.
"What Time Is It?" is the opening musical number and first single from the Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical 2". It is featured on the "High School Musical 2" soundtrack, and is the first song off the "High School Musical 2" soundtrack.
Blue's Big Musical Movie (also known as Blue's Big Musical and Blue's Clues: The Movie) is a 2000 American direct-to-video animated film based on the "Blue's Clues" television series and acted as the first and only full-length musical film for the character of Blue the Dog. It was released on VHS and DVD on October 6, 2000. A video game based on the movie was released for the original PlayStation around the same time, making it the only "Blue's Clues" video game on a non-PC home console.