Yesterday The Music Man was on TV. I had forgotten all about this movie that I'd watched about a million times as a kid. It's a musical about a con man who pretends to be a music professor. He gets everyone in town to order instruments and band uniforms for their kids with the intention of skipping town as soon as he collects. However, before he can make his escape, he falls for Marian the Librarian.
My favorite scene is where everyone does this synchronized dance in the library, in and out of the rows of bookcases and up and down those spiral stairs. Hurray for YouTube!
I love how bright all the colors are in those old movies. They would even declare at the beginning: "In Technicolor!" I guess that was before they started taking it for granted that people could watch film in color, and they oversaturated everything to emphasize the point.
Speaking of saturated color, I finally got my Lomo fixed! It cost me $80, but it was well worth it. It's a real one from Communist Russia, not this imitation garbage that Urban Outfitters is selling now. I also found out what one of the mysterious dials on it meant (film speed). I shot a whole roll of slide film today at Eastern Market that I plan to get cross-processed.
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Any movie that has a synchronized dance scene in it is one of my favorites.
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