Nowadays we may think of classic Hollywood musicals as lightweight and frivolous and, well, they are. That’s one of the reasons we love them. At their best, they also represent the most extraordinary collection of intellect and technical know-how this side of the Manhattan Project. This is a collection of some of the best, most diverting, most visually nourishing, and most purely entertaining musical films of the Technicolor era, when the films looked more real than real, and the extraordinarily bold color set a new standard for the visual vocabulary of cinema.
