Except for those movie travelogues in exotic locales, I can't think of another film short that I've seen in color. This one is described by MGM as a Colortone Musical, and it fills the bill on that score once a couple of reporters (Harry Jans and Harold Whalen) from The Globe Broadcasting Company make their way to a remote tropical island to interview talent for a radio show. Look, I'm only recounting what I saw in the picture, I didn't say it made any sense.
At least the performers were entertaining, with the bright orange coiffured MGM Dancing Girls the highlight of the effort. Along with Joyzelle Joyner, the Panther Lady, doing it up right in song and dance. I have to give some credit to those dancers who allowed themselves to be swung and thrown around the way they were here; one false move and their careers might have been over. Especially for the gal falling backwards over the cliff, very trusting of her.
I'm not sure if this film short fulfilled it's mission, going by the Globe president's declaration that 'an idea man has got to have ideas'. But who's to say, you don't get to see a cave man in a leopard skin belting out a tune very often.
At least the performers were entertaining, with the bright orange coiffured MGM Dancing Girls the highlight of the effort. Along with Joyzelle Joyner, the Panther Lady, doing it up right in song and dance. I have to give some credit to those dancers who allowed themselves to be swung and thrown around the way they were here; one false move and their careers might have been over. Especially for the gal falling backwards over the cliff, very trusting of her.
I'm not sure if this film short fulfilled it's mission, going by the Globe president's declaration that 'an idea man has got to have ideas'. But who's to say, you don't get to see a cave man in a leopard skin belting out a tune very often.