Does Not Illustrate: Busby Berkeley Number

I have no idea what that image is, is it a doily? How exactly does this illustrate a big musical number with an elaborate set?

It is a shot of about 50 chorus girls, sitting in two concentric rings, with an outer third ring of male dancers wearing white jackets, from above. Good image.

The trope is about elaborate dance numbers / choreography with large groups of people moving in sync; the article only mentions sets once, that is secondary.

edited 12th Apr '12 5:28:41 PM by rodneyAnonymous

You can see that shot at about 3:14 in this Youtube clip. It is indeed trippy.

Looks like an example to me: large numbers of dancers, check. in sync. check. there'salso the bonus of the camera trick mentioned in the description.

Plus the overhead shot is perhaps the most iconic form of this trope.

This one looks good, keep it.

I think this is about as good/iconic a pic as we can get.

Yeah, keep this.

this is the only thing I can find◊.... yeah the current is better.

Do color shots exist of this kind of sequence? I think that would be much clearer already.

To see some coloured examples wouldn't hurt, but the trope is I think associated with older cultural ages, and so going Deliberately Monochrome might evoke the "feel" better.

Anyone have Blazing Saddles on DVD?

1. 9 is decent, but not as good as the current...good for Image Links, though.

I think the current image is fine.

So if we have consensus to keep, would it be good to just lock this?

Yeah, I think we're done here. Locking up.