- Title: VM-1454
- Summary: BLACK TIGHTS (PT. 2): BLACK TIGHTS IS A FILMED BALLET ANTHOLOGY DIVIDED INTO FOUR ALL-DANCE EPISODES, PART 1 "THE "DIAMOND CRUNCHER" AND "CYRANO DE BERGERAC". PART 2 (THIS FILE) CONSISTS OF THE TWO REMAINING EPISODES INCLUDING "A MERRY MOURNING", FINDS CYD CHARISSE FLITTERING HER WAY INTO A DEADLY ROMANTIC TRIANGLE. THE FINAL EPISODE, "CARMEN" STARRING JEANMAIRE, IS THE OLD STORYDANCED RATHER THAN SUNG TO THE MUSIC OF BIZET. ROLAND PETIT AND HIS TROUPE OD DANCERS ARE FEATURED IN BOTH EPISODES. ALL EPISODES OF "BLACK TIGHTS" ARE NARRATED BY MAURICE CHAVELIER. modern dance, ballet
- Description:01:05:15 - A MERRY MOURNING - MS BLACK DRESS ON MANNEQUIN IN A DEPARTMENT STORE WINDOW IN PARIS. . MAURICE CHAVELIER REFLECTION APPEARS IN WINDOW AS HE TELLS THE STORY, PAN TO MAURICE OUTSIDE STORE. HE WARNS "WHEN A WIMAN SETS HER MIND IN ACQUIRING A DRESS LIKE THIS, SHE WILL STOP AT NOTHING,... NOTHING, SO BUY IT, FOR THE PRICE OF THAT DRESS WILL BE CHEAPER THAN A...EXCUSE ME, A FUNERAL". YOUNG WOMAN (CHARISSE) AND BEAU RIDING IN OPEN CARRIAGE IN STREETS OF PARIS SPOTS THE BLACK DRESS IN STORE WINDOW, HAS BEAU STOP CARRIAGE (STAGE PROP). THEY ENTER STORE SHE TRIES ON DRESS, (BALLET SCENE) SHE CONVINCES HIM TO BUY DRESS, HE ALMOST PASSES OUT WHEN SHOWN PRICE BY SALESMAN. COLORFUL DANCE SCENES IN STREETS OF PARIS. COUPLE STOP AT CAFE. GIRL (CYD) CATCHES EYE OF YOUNG MAN (ROLAND PETIT), OPENLY FLIRTS WITH HER. CU THEY PLAY FOOTSY WITH THEIR BALLET SHOES. BOYFRIEND GETS ANGRY, THEY FIGHT, CHALLENGES HIM TO DUEL. 01:10:26 - DUEL SCENE - GREAT DANCE SCENES AT DUEL MEETING GROUNDS. DUEL SCENES (GREAT COSTUMES). THEY FACE OFF BACK TO BACK, THEY DANCE THREE PACES, TURN AND FIRE. BOYFRIEND IS KILLED IN MORBIDLY FUNNY SCENE. SHE DOES BALLET STEP TO HIM, SMALL CRYING SCENE. BODY IS CARRIES AWAY BY SECONDS. GREAT BALLET DANCE SCENE WITH CYD CHARISSE AND ROLAND PETIT, AFTER WHICH SHE WALKS OFF. 01:16:36 - TWO MAIDS UNPACK BLACK DRESS BOUGHT FOR CHARISSE BY DECEASED BOYFRIEND, TWO MAIDS DOING BALLET. ENTER DISTRAUGHT CHARISSE WITH PORTRAIT OF HER DECEASED LOVER. CYD CHARISSE DOING BALLET DANCE, THEN PUTS ON BLACK DRESS HE BOUGHT HER, BLACK VEIL FOR MOURNING, GOES OUT ON THE TOWN. 01:20:47 - RESTAURANT WAITER DANCES BALLET ON RESTAURANT LOBBY, WELL DRESSED WOMEN, COUPLES, EVENING GOWNS, TUXEDOES DANCE INTO RESTAURANT. STREET SCENE OUTSIDE RESTAURANT (BALLET DE PARIS DANCERS). FOUR WAITERS DANCE OUT TO MEET CARRIAGE WITH CYD CHARISSE IN BLACK GOWN AND VEIL. SHE DANCES GRACEFULLY INTO RESTAURANT. DANCE SCENE WITH WAITER, REMOVES VEIL. CHARISSE AND WAITER JOIN COUPLES DANCING ON DANCE FLOOR. 01:24:20 - ENTER PETIT IN TUX, ATTRACTS MANY WOMEN WHO MAKE FUSS OVER HIM. HE SPOTS CHARISSE, SHE SPOTS HIM, SHE TURNS AWAY FROM HIM, HE LEAVES FUSSING WOMEN, MAKES A PLAY FOR HER (GREAT BALLET DANCING BY PETIT AND CHARISSE IN COURTING SCENE) SHE GIVES IN, THEY DANCE SPECTACULARLY. 01:27:00 - CYD CHARISSE DOES STRIP TEASE TYPE DANCE ACCOMPANIES BY OTHER NAUGHTY FEMALE DANCERS, SHOCKING AUDIENCE. FEMALE DANCERS DO A CAN CAN DANCE BALLET STYLE. PETIT AND CHARISSE EACH DO SOLOS. CYD, PETIT, ENTIRE DANCE TROUPE IN LIVELY FINALE. 01:29:53 - END 01:29:55 - TITLE: "CARMEN". SUPER-IMPOSED OVER STREET SCENE (STAGED) IN SERVILLE, SPAIN. VOICE OVER, MAURICE CHAVELIER INTRODUCING THE STORY OF "CARMEN". FEATURING ROLAND PETIT AND WIFE ZIZI JEANMAIRE, AND ROLAND PETIT DANCERS. 01:31:20 - STREET SCENE IN SEVILLE SLUMS. CLOTHES LINES EVERYWHERE, DANCERS DANCING IN STREET. GIRLS MAKING FUSS OVER NEIGHBORHOOD BOY ARE SHOOED AWAY BY LOCAL TOUGH GIRL, SHE KISSES HIM. 0132 00 ENTER CARMEN (ZIZI JEANMAIRE). VARIOUS DANCE SCENES, VICIOUS CAT FIGHT BETWEEN CARMEN AND LOCAL GIRL WITHIN CIRCLE OF LOCAL GIRLS. BOYS (ROLAND PETIT DANCERS). FIGHT IS STOPPED BY OFFICER OF DRAGOONS DON JOSE (ROLAND PETIT), TO ARREST HER FOR ASSAULTING GIRL. HE IS INSTEAD SEDUCED BY CARMEN. HE SHUNS OTHER GIRLS WHO MAKE PLAY FOR HIM AS CARMEN LEAVES. DON JOSE GOES SEARCHING FOR HER. VOICE OVER CHAVELIER, "ALL EVENING LONG DON JOSE HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR CARMEN, HE FINDS HER AT THE END OF THE NIGHT. HE FINDS HER AT VILLAS SPASTIA, THIS INN IS THE MEETING PLACE OF ALL THE GYPSIES, THE THIEVES AND SMUGGLERS AND MURDERERS". 01:34:35 - VARIOUS GREAT DANCE SCENES AT INN, (BALLET) FEATURING ROLAND PETIT DANCERS, USING CHAIRS AS PROPS. 01:37:30 - ENTER OFFICER OF THE DRAGOONS, DON JOSE, LOOKING FOR GYPSY GIRL, CARMEN. MORE DANCING WITH CHAIRS. 01:38:29 - DON JOSE (PETIT) DOES GREAT BALLET DANCING TO TOREADOR SONG FROM OPERA BY BIZET. PETIT DANCERS IN, ACCOMPANY IN B/G. FOLLOWED BY CARMEN (ZIZI JEANMAIRE DOING GREAT SOLO DANCE TO BIZET MUSIC, TO ENTICE DON JOSE. SHE IS JOINED BY PETIT DANCERS. AND WITH DON JOSE IN GREAT DUET. DON JOSE SWEEPS HER AWAY. 01:38:40 - SEXY SCENE IN APARTMENT WITH DON JOSE AND CARMEN, FOLLOWING A NIGHT OF LOBE. HE TAKES PUFF OF CIGARET, HANDS IT TO HER. SHE DOES ENTICING DANCE SCENE TO GET DON JOSE TO JOIN HER BANDIT FRIENDS. HE OBJECTS, BUT GOES WITH IT. THEY KISS PASSIONATELY. MORE GREAT BALLET DANCE SCENES IN "APARTMENT". 01:56:00 - ENTER (APARTMENT), CARMEN'S BANDIT FRIENDS. CARMEN, DON JOSE JOINS THEM AS THEY EXIT APARTMENT. 01:56:40 - CRIME SCENE - CARMEN, DON JOSE, THREE SMUGGLERS AT CRIME SCENE. DON JOSE, CARMEN DO DANCES SCENE WITH KNIFE. REALIZING CARMEN HAS LOST INTEREST IN HIM, DON JOSE THINKS OF USING KNIFE ON HIMSELF, THEN PLUNGES IT INTO BACK OF VICTIM WHO DROPS HIS BAG OF MONEY. CARMEN AND OTHERS RUSH TO PICK UP MONEY. . VOICE OVER CHEVALIER, "CARMEN HAS PROVED THE POWER OF THE MAN. DON JOSE HAS PROVED TO HER THAT HE HE IS A MAN". "BY KILLING ANOTHER MAN, CARMEN HAS NOTHING MORE TO ASK, DON JOSE, NOTHING MORE TO GIVE, SHE CAN DESERT HIM, LEAVING HIM TO HIS DAMNATION". 02:00:09 - LIVELY DANCE SCENE IN INN WITH ENTIRE PETIT DANCERS (BALLET DE PARIS) AND CARMEN (JEANMAIRE) TO GREAT MUSIC BY BIZET. (BALLET, ACROBATIC DANCE). 02:01:09 - ENTER HANSOME TOR ERO (BULL FIGHTER). WOMEN FLOCK AROUND HIM. HE SEES CARMEN, FALLS IN LOVE. LEAVES WITH DANCERS FOLLOWING. JUST AS CARMEN LEAVES TO FOLLOW TORERO, ENTER JEALOUS DON JOSE, KNIFE IN WAIST BAND. 02:02:33 - DON JOSE EMBRACES CARMEN, TRIES TO KISS HER. SHE TURNS AWAY. HE SEES HER LACK OF INTEREST IN HIM, HE PUSHES, VIOLENT FIGHT SCENE (DANCE). ENSUES. SHE THROWS HIM TO GROUND, HE PULLS KNIFE, SHE PUTS UP GOOD FIGHT. 02:05:00 - DEATH SCENE AS DON JOSE PLUNGES KNIFE INTO CARMEN. HE HOLDS HER DEAD BODY CLOSE IN PASSIONATE EMBRACE. HATS FALL ALL AROUND THE TWO LIKE A TORERO AFTER KILLING BULL IN ARENA. 02:06:19 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1454