Swing time
DVD - 2019
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Comedy films
Musical films
Romance films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
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- Other Authors
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- Edition
- DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
- Item Description
- Title from credit frames.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1936.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Features: New 2K digital restoration; Audio commentary from 1986 featuring John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing: the Musical Films; Archival interviews with performers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and choreographer Hermes Pan; New interview with George Stevens Jr.; In Full Swing, a new program on the film's choreography and soundtrack featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, dance critic Brian Seibert, and Dorothy Fields biographer Deborah Grace Winer; New interview with film scholar Mia Mask on the "Bojangles of Harlem" number; An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; full frame (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.
- Audience
- Rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, David Abel ; editor, Henry Berman ; music, Jerome Kern ; lyrics, Dorothy Fields.
- ISBN
- 9781681435954
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