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Broadway Brevities
The name "Broadway Brevity" was used by Warner Brothers to market its two-reel (17–21 minutes long) musical and dramatic film shorts between 1931 and 1943, which continued as “Warner Specials” in later years.
==Overview==
Other titles used for these black and white two-reel films included “Vitaphone Musicals”, “Broadway Headliners”, “Presentation Revue” (for a couple 1938 releases〔''BoxOffice'', November 19, 1938, “Shorts Chart” & May 6, 1939, p. 12〕) and “Blue Ribbon Comedy” for a trio featuring Elsa Maxwell.〔''BoxOffice'', December 7, 1940, “Shorts Chart”, p.134〕 Usually the trade periodicals grouped them as “Broadway Brevities” for easier marketing purposes.
Many of these glossy productions, a few winning Academy Awards, featured dance spectaculars and mini-dramas with top Broadway theatre or Warner studio stars; famous names included Russ Columbo, Ruth Etting, Hal Le Roy, Bob Hope and Red Skelton. They were filmed at the Vitaphone studio in Brooklyn, New York until 1939, with Samuel Sax as a key producer. Production then moved to Burbank, California.
By the forties, an increasing number were of the documentary genre and the title “Broadway Brevity” was officially dropped in mid-1943 in favor of “Warner Special”. In 1948-1956, many were re-released to theaters under the heading “Classics of the Screen”.〔''BoxOffice'', March 25, 1944, “War Victory Shorts” chart〕〔''BoxOffice'', Jan 5, 1946, “Shorts Chart” temporarily uses “Featurettes” instead of “Specials”〕
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