Scopitones VII

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Year Published: 1960

Creator: Scopitones Inc.

Complete Record: Reel contains three Scopitone films. 1) On set shot with one male and one female singer performing. The film shifts scene multiple time, each one with a new set, new costumes and a new style of dance. The film opens with the singers being brought out in rickshaws, the dancers are dressed in a vaguely oriental style. Second style of the video is greaser, singer in leather jacket. Third style has two Go Go girls on podiums. 2) On location shot Scopitone takes place at a lake. Footage opens with three guys working out at the lake shore, as a group of girls arrive in a camper van, red head singer pops out sun roof. They couple up and frolic on the lake shore, cuts to MS of the singer and a man in a rowing boat on the lake. Cuts to a MS of a bra being removed from the lake, an eye line match cut shows its owned dashing into a bush clutching her chest. The ladies leave again in the camper van as the men chase on foot. 3) On set shot Scopitone shows a black singer entering double doors with a lady on each of his arms. Set is made to look like a fancy club, the dancers are choreographed in a casual ballroom couple style. The male dancer, in a tuxedo, prances between the female dancers who are acting frozen, remaining so when the male dancer tries to revitalize them with a kiss. Film cuts back and forth between dancers the singer