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Busby Berkeley, was truly a genius of choreography and design. His design sense and knack for innovation in film is why I find him a fascinating personality who deserved his own site. When I was in college, although I majored in Painting, I took as many film history classes as possible, because I loved watching classic movies. The Professor of the class on American film focused on Busby Berkeley many times and even devoted a whole class just to his musical numbers. Perhaps because of all those hours spent in the dark with those 1930's musicals is why my favorite Berkeley work is that done at Warner Brothers. My artistic nature is the reason that I loved and enjoyed seeing the patterns and images he created with hundreds of dancers and elaborate set design. He has never been matched! I hope you will enjoy this trip detailing his life's work as much as I did while creating this site.

Note: The following images that I have used on this site are not from Berkeley films. However, I decided to use them because they were good examples of the Berkeleyesque style and were directly inspired by and owe to his genius and innovative techniques. They are:

Ruby Keeler dancing on a typewriter in the guestbook section from Ready Willing and Able, 1937 Billy Connolly, choreography
King of Jazz, 1930 "Rhapsody in Blue" Dancers on piano in Acknowledgment section.

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