movie musical

Japanese: movie musical(英語表記)moviemusical
movie musical

...A major Hollywood genre along with westerns and gangster movies, it is a film that, following the format of stage musicals, focuses on singing and dancing and integrates them with drama. It is also called a "movie musical" or "screen musical," but in general it is often simply called a "musical" without distinguishing it from stage musicals.
[The birth of musical films]
When Al Jolson (1886-1950), who had become an American idol through his records in the early 1920s, sang "My Mammy" and "Blue Skies" in the Warner Brothers experimental sound short "April Showers" (1926) and "The Jazz Singer" (1927), the "talkies" and "film musicals" were born at the same time.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "movie musical" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…西部劇やギャング映画などと並ぶハリウッドの主要なジャンルで,舞台のミュージカルの形式にならって,歌と踊りを中心にしてそれをドラマと一体化した映画である。〈ムービー・ミュージカルmovie musical〉あるいは〈スクリーン・ミュージカルscreen musical〉とも呼ぶが,一般には舞台のミュージカルと区別せずに単に〈ミュージカルmusical〉と呼ぶ場合も多い。
[ミュージカル映画の誕生]
 1920年代の初めにレコードを通じて全米のアイドルとなっていたアル・ジョルスンAl Jolson(1886‐1950)が,ワーナー・ブラザースの実験的なサウンド短編《エープリル・シャワーズ》(1926)につづく《ジャズ・シンガー》(1927)で《マイ・マミー》や《ブルー・スカイ》を歌ったとき,〈トーキー映画〉と〈ミュージカル映画〉が同時に誕生した。…

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