The Hollywood Studios, Year-By-Year – Fox Film Corporation, 1934 – Music in the Air & Judge Priest

This episode's Studios Year by Year: Fox, 1934. A Kern and Hammerstein musical with only one song and a Will Rogers comedy with many: Joe May's Music in the Air sees the beginning of Billie Wilder's Hollywood career and the end, for a while, of Gloria Swanson's (they will come together again). For Judge Priest, Dave goes long on Civil War history and Confederate imagery. We're not sure whether this John Ford/Rogers collaboration is Verhoeven/Sturgesque satire or Popular Front-style propaganda for progressive values in a Southern context, but we're pretty sure it's subversive. Trigger warning for those who aren't interested in watching a celebration of the Confederacy no matter what it's trying to smuggle in.  Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:            Music in the Air (Dir: Joe May) 0h 15m 57s:            Judge Priest (Dir: John Ford) 1h 03m 43s:            Listener Letter from Adam      +++ * Check out our Complete Upcoming Episode Schedule (now projected into 2023) * Find Elise's latest film piece on Billy Wilder and 1930s Romantic Comedy *And Read lots of Elise's Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at [email protected] Theme Music: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" – Le Tigre