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Aren’t there lots of tv shows with music and dancing? The style has changed.

brudgers 4y ago
What stands out to me in the piece is the high budget combined with a lack of any celebrity and the use of an original composition. Someone was paid to write an original composition and another to choreograph the dancing. Those are expensive cameras dancing on a proper soundstage operates by professionals and shot with a multi-camera setup by another set of professionals…it’s all choreographed, rehearsed, directed, and edited. Nothing like that happens today without a celebrity.
- Animats 4y ago
  > Nothing like that happens today without a celebrity. Now that's an interesting insight. Dance groups still do works like that. Here's ODC San Francisco.[1] Not many people watch that sort of thing. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyi9-01Gx7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyi9-01Gx7E
- TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
  In 1970 most people hadn't heard a Moog before. So this was pretty abstract and futuristic. The modern equivalent would be a stage full of Boston Dynamics robots choreographed by an AI with an AI-generated trap music score. Although it reminds me that the BBC had musique concrète station idents in the 70s. Also used more famously for incidental music for Dr Who and a few other shows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlscKj5L4Q8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlscKj5L4Q8
  - brudgers 4y ago
    Because Boston Dynamics robots don’t currently provide T&A, I don’t think it would hold my interest to the same degree. Or more generally, to the degree humans are hardwired and/or culturally programmed to watch dance, I think it is to watch people dance. Watching waves break on rocks, clouds blow by, and fires crackle is a different type of experience for me than watching dance or sport or juggling. I have a higher degree of isomorphism with other humans than non-humans and I believe that creates a different context for my experiences.
qbasic_forever 4y ago
Soul Train was the grand daddy of them all.
- brudgers 4y ago
  I loved Soul Train. Unlike this clip, it was built around celebrity and commercial music. That probably explains why it had such a long run. Incidentally, Wikipedia says it started in 1971 the same year this clip purports to be.

What stands out to me in the piece is the high budget combined with a lack of any celebrity and the use of an original composition. Someone was paid to write an original composition and another to choreograph the dancing. Those are expensive cameras dancing on a proper soundstage operates by professionals and shot with a multi-camera setup by another set of professionals…it’s all choreographed, rehearsed, directed, and edited. Nothing like that happens today without a celebrity.

Animats 4y ago
> Nothing like that happens today without a celebrity. Now that's an interesting insight. Dance groups still do works like that. Here's ODC San Francisco.[1] Not many people watch that sort of thing. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyi9-01Gx7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyi9-01Gx7E
TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
In 1970 most people hadn't heard a Moog before. So this was pretty abstract and futuristic. The modern equivalent would be a stage full of Boston Dynamics robots choreographed by an AI with an AI-generated trap music score. Although it reminds me that the BBC had musique concrète station idents in the 70s. Also used more famously for incidental music for Dr Who and a few other shows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlscKj5L4Q8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlscKj5L4Q8
- brudgers 4y ago
  Because Boston Dynamics robots don’t currently provide T&A, I don’t think it would hold my interest to the same degree. Or more generally, to the degree humans are hardwired and/or culturally programmed to watch dance, I think it is to watch people dance. Watching waves break on rocks, clouds blow by, and fires crackle is a different type of experience for me than watching dance or sport or juggling. I have a higher degree of isomorphism with other humans than non-humans and I believe that creates a different context for my experiences.

qbasic_forever 4y ago

Soul Train was the grand daddy of them all.

brudgers 4y ago
I loved Soul Train. Unlike this clip, it was built around celebrity and commercial music. That probably explains why it had such a long run. Incidentally, Wikipedia says it started in 1971 the same year this clip purports to be.