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Program 15: Invitation to the Dance Series: Dance on Camera Festival [2007] Director: Gene Kelly, Country: USA, Release: 1956, Runtime: 93 Gene Kelly's dream was to make a film narrative told entirely through dance and pantomime. He started Invitation to the Dance in 1952 in England. Two of the stories - Circus and Ring Around the Rosy - were partially filmed there with dance stars Igor Youskevitch, Diana Adams, Tamara Toumanova, Tommy Rall and of, course, Kelly himself, although he originally envisioned being exclusively behind the camera, something MGM would never have tolerated. In the first section Kelly is a lovesick clown, a Pierrot in a circus, and believe it, he is no Jean-Louis Barrault. But as the marine in the next segment, in a conceptual nod to La Ronde, he is energetically himself. Best of all is Sinbad the Sailor, which combines live action with animation by Hanna-Barbera to Rimsky-Korsakov music. Purportedly, three dozen artists sketched, inked and colored more than 250,000 individual drawings on the MGM lot in a process that took a year and a half. In this Arabian Nights fantasy Kelly and boy genie transformed into a sailor (David Kasday) do a laidback soft shoe duet that is still delightful, especially on the big screen. The two are then transported into a cartoon world of dragons, harem girls and a ballerina heroine. André Previn did the orchestrations. Look for the inimitable Carol Haney, then Kelly's assistant, as Scheherazade in the prelude. 50th Anniversary Screening

Buy Tickets sat Jan 13: 4* *Anna Kisselgoff will introduce the screening.