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[Radio City Music Hall Christmas show]

Title
[Radio City Music Hall Christmas show] [motion picture] / [produced and directed by Leon Leonidoff ; choreography by Russell Markert]
Publication
1961.

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Additional Authors
  • Slavin, Eugene
  • Karina, Tania
  • Leonidoff, Leon
  • Markert, Russell, 1899-
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
  • Rockettes (Dance company)
  • Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.) Corps de Ballet
  • Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.)
  • DHCA.
Description
1 film reel (10 min., 372 ft.) : si. at sd. spd., col.; 16 mm.
Summary
Excerpts from the Christmas stage show accompanying the film Babes in Toyland.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Albert Mathers.
Subject
  • Acrobats
  • Christmas plays
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Variety.
  • Motion pictures.
Note
  • Title from information provided by donor.
Event (note)
  • Filmed onstage at Radio City Music Hall, New York, in 1961, by Leon Leonidoff.
Contents
[Song by singers costumed as mail carriers] -- [Ballet number] / performed by Eugene Slavin (Santa Claus) and Tania Karina (dancing reindeer), with the Music Hall corps de ballet -- [Acrobatic bicycling act] / performed by Lily Yokoi -- [A Christmas carol] / adapted from the story by Charles Dickens ; performed by ensemble including female acrobat -- [Acrobatic performance] -- [Precision dancing by the Rockettes, costumed as angels] -- [Grand finale (?)] / performed by the Rockettes, corps de ballet, and others (?). This segment is very dark.
Call Number
*MGZHB 4-2627
OCLC
NYPY95-F332
Title
[Radio City Music Hall Christmas show] [motion picture] / [produced and directed by Leon Leonidoff ; choreography by Russell Markert]
Imprint
1961.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Event
Filmed onstage at Radio City Music Hall, New York, in 1961, by Leon Leonidoff.
Local Subject
Christmas dances.
Added Author
Slavin, Eugene, dancer.
Karina, Tania, dancer.
Leonidoff, Leon. Producer. Director
Markert, Russell, 1899- choreographer.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Christmas carol.
Rockettes (Dance company)
Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.) Corps de Ballet.
Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.)
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZHB 4-2627
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