The Kelly film that inspired this sequence is unfortunately so obscure it's hard to find online in its complete form. It's sort of Gene's own answer to Fantasia, and does three separate stories through dance. The third one is by far the best, combining animation and live action almost ten years before Disney did Mary Poppins, and using a jazzed up arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
But in this section, Gene plays a sailor visiting the Middle East where he meets and befriends a juvenile Genie in a lamp, who, after using his flute to save Gene from a poisonous cobra, takes him into his animated Arabian Nights fantasy world, where he uses his musical skills to save Gene from a much bigger and more dragonish snake, turning it into one of Gene's most unique dance partners ever.
I can't find any clips of the dragon dance online, but here's some more of it to give you the general idea of where I got this from - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VakV9c7utxk
But in this section, Gene plays a sailor visiting the Middle East where he meets and befriends a juvenile Genie in a lamp, who, after using his flute to save Gene from a poisonous cobra, takes him into his animated Arabian Nights fantasy world, where he uses his musical skills to save Gene from a much bigger and more dragonish snake, turning it into one of Gene's most unique dance partners ever.
I can't find any clips of the dragon dance online, but here's some more of it to give you the general idea of where I got this from - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VakV9c7utxk
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Transformation
Species Snake / Serpent
Size 992 x 1330px
File Size 403.5 kB
...hmm. And nothing of it on the seven seas? I mean, if the "official" lanes don't have licensing for it, might as well head to the dens of digital smugglers. As Gabe N. said, the key to fighting piracy is providing a better service than the pirates. (For legal reasons, this is sardonic.)
But seriously, the fact that the Internet doesn't have "everything your brain can think of" is a sad reality many are waking up to.
But seriously, the fact that the Internet doesn't have "everything your brain can think of" is a sad reality many are waking up to.
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