Getting back to what Hollywood does best (no, not getting away with murder) we leave you with another Busby Berkeley freak-out to usher in the weekend. I was watching a special on Technicolor last night and was reminded of some of the gems that came out of the Hollywood Dream Factory in those years when color was still a novelty (and child labor laws probably pretty darn lax -- those kids doing the polka-waltzing are kinda... creepy, no?). Noone utilized the new color process more Suessically than wildman choreographer Busby Berkeley. This one comes from YouTube user "Picklepuss" who says...
Hold on to your hats. Here it comes. The most realistic depiction of what a brain on acid feels like. This wicked awesome tribute to one of the world's most overlooked entities, the polka dot, takes us on a journey to a star that we may never come back from. After the freak out look for Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman, Eugene Pallette, Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, James Ellison and Sheila Ryan in the "Attack of the 50 Foot Polka Dots" right at the end.