The narrators, Gene Kelly, Sammy Davis Jr., Mikhail Baryshnikov (on ballet only), Ray Bolger, Liza Minnelli, Gene Kelly again, feel a little too free to talk over the film clips, as if dance numbers only had to be seen and not heard. And it would have been nice once in a while if they could have dropped some of the puffery and provided some real education, on, say, the sound-enhancement of cinematic tap dances. On the other hand, there is great care taken to show the selections straight through, without cuts; and care, too, to show them with their proper aspect ratios, even though this means blacking out the sides or, for Cinemascope, the top and bottom of the screen. And in contrast to That's Entertainment and its immediate followup, the pool of clips here, though hardly comprehensive, stretches well beyond MGM, to include such people as the Nicholas Brothers and Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. MGM, even so, still comes in for the (heh-heh) lion's share; and actual compliments to other studios, apart from a mention of the hugeness of Warner Brothers' sound stages, are not forthcoming. In the final analysis, however, what can be seen can with few exceptions be enjoyed. Written and directed by Jack Haley, Jr. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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