Musicals
The Guild's collection of films in which music, song or dance forms a substantial part of the narrative or presentation.
The holdings range from conventional musical entertainment to works in which the musical form is employed for purposes of satire, historical reconstruction, education or general inexplicability.
Holdings
Just Two Minutes
A short musical comedy built around the smallest possible unit of cinematic time.
Floozies
A musical comedy presented through the visual and social vocabulary of an imagined popular past.
Market Day
A musical travelogue concerned with the pleasures and peculiarities of the market place.
10,000BC – The Musical
A prehistoric cinematic spectacle in musical form.
Philosophy Phun
An educational musical which examines philosophical questions with rather less solemnity than might normally be expected.
Village Beat (1964)
A British musical presented as a work of unusually personal directorial character.
The Happy Weekend
A musical comedy concerning the complicated business of having an entirely satisfactory weekend.
Serene Christine's Holiday
A musical comedy following Christine through an apparently uncomplicated holiday.
The New Peepers
A musical comedy concerned with observation, appearance and the business of looking.
The Three Four Blues
An animated musical comedy built around rhythm, repetition and the possibilities of an apparently simple musical form.
Hot Summer Jazz
A musical work centred upon the atmosphere and imagery of a hot summer and its jazz soundtrack.
Music as evidence
The Guild's musical holdings are not restricted to conventional musical films. The collection includes works in which songs and musical performance are used to reconstruct periods, places and forms of popular culture which may otherwise be difficult to document.
Several holdings consequently occupy more than one collection. The Guild regards such duplication not as an administrative inconvenience but as evidence of the inadequacy of rigid classification.