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Swing time [videorecording (DVD)] / RKO Radio Pictures presents ; directed by George Stevens ; screen play by Howard Lindsay and Allen Scott ; a Pandro S. Berman production.

Contributor(s): Stevens, George Cooper, 1904-1975 | Astaire, Fred | Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995 | Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968 | Scott, Allen | Berman, Pandro S, 1905-1996 | Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 | Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974 | RKO Radio Pictures.
Publisher: [United States] : Burbank, Ca. : Turner Home Entertainment Co. ; Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2005Description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.Subject(s): Feature films | Musical filmsDDC classification: 791.4372
Production Credits: Photographed by David Abel ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; edited by Henry Berman ; music by Jerome Kern ;lyrics by Dorothy Fields ; musical director, Nathaniel Shilkret.
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore.Summary: Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight" which won an Academy Award. Swing time, the fifth in the series of Astaire-Rogers musicals, is one of the best, due to the Jerome Kern score, the dramatic dance sequences and beautiful art direction.
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791.4372 SWI 2005 (Browse shelf) 1 Available SLASx,05000,01,GR 1000525087

A videodisc release of the 1936 motion picture.

Special features: commentary by John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing; new featurette "The swing of things: swing time step by step"; musical "Short hotel a la swing"; classic cartoon "Bingo Crosbyana"; theatrical trailer.

Photographed by David Abel ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; edited by Henry Berman ; music by Jerome Kern ;lyrics by Dorothy Fields ; musical director, Nathaniel Shilkret.

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore.

Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight" which won an Academy Award. Swing time, the fifth in the series of Astaire-Rogers musicals, is one of the best, due to the Jerome Kern score, the dramatic dance sequences and beautiful art direction.

DVD; Dolby Digital; standard version.

English language track with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish.