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was looking for "Putting on the Ritz" but found no good uploads ... then found this ... which reminded me that I met Ann Miller once ... in 1990 ... she gave me one of those "Don't you know who I am? I am Ann Miller" lines ... she was quite a talent though ...


And a bit of Schwartz and Dietz


And Harry Warren and Al Dubin.

 
DLD said:
was looking for "Putting on the Ritz" but found no good uploads
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Correct, unfortunately, the copyright holder blocks this performance from YouTube.


Video title: ritz yt 24p 002.mov
Copyrighted content: HI - RES MASTER - Blue Skies (1946) - ACTIVE
Claimed by: NBC Universal

Blocked in all territories
 
Mitch Gross said:
I was kinda thinking about going straight to the original...
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I can link the whole film but it'll be in Russian ... where you'll miss the "some knockers" and "werewolf" jokes, among others.

PS. The record for missed jokes in English-to-Russian translation must go to the "Airplane!", where probably 50% of their best punchlines were completely glossed over. And not just a mentally confused Lieutenant Hurwitz, who thought he was Ethel Merman.
 
Some humor surely can never transfer language & cultural barriers (don’t call me Shirley). But ZAZ piled so many jokes into Airplane! that I bet it’s still hysterical to Russian audiences. My favorite joke from those guys was one Jim Abraham’s did in real life just for his own personal amusement. He ordered a personalized license plate for his Volkswagen Rabbit that read “BOBS MG” just so people would pull up to point out that it wasn’t an MG and he could reply “I’m not Bob” before driving off.

I don’t care what language you speak, that’s funny.
 
Jim Feeley said:
I blame TheDingo ...
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Mitch Gross said:
Some humor surely can never transfer language & cultural barriers (don’t call me Shirley). But ZAZ piled so many jokes into Airplane! that I bet it’s still hysterical to Russian audiences...
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The problem for the Russian speakers was that they didn't get to see the movie when it was still fresh. Hypothetically speaking, the references can be explained in a book format but, in a film, it has to be done in real time, so half of the jokes are glossed over. "I gave at the office", "Give me Hamm on Five and hold the Mayo", "I take it black, like my men", "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?", "Dunn was over Unger and I was over Dunn", "What's our vector, Victor?" Each of them would require a full paragraph to explain.

And the "Saturday Night Fever" sequence was probably never intended for those who never saw "Saturday Night Fever".
 
What comes to mind here is the visual and body-movement cues while improvising. First pass listen first. Next pass look for the cues, for the younger ones. Very important . That takes years to learn. The drummer here is 100% on the ball. Correct?

 
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In the 60s there was an early HD process using orthicon cameras called Electronovision, here is a recording with such a camera which was later kinescoped to film:

 
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