Musical films Motion pictures Concert films Rock films Film musicals Motion picture musicals Moving-pictures, Musical Musicals (Motion pictures) Hennepin Beaver, F. Dict. of film terms, 1983 Britannica Micro LC database, Sept. 24, 1987 (musical film(s); Hollywood musical; movie musical; film musical; musical) The moving image genre-form guide, via WWW, Mar. 10, 2001 (Musical. Predominantly theatrical fiction work whose plot is structured around segments featuring combinations of music, song, and dance, including such various types as backstage, comedy, rock, and musical biographies. In the Hollywood context, musicals emerged with the coming of sound motion pictures, from roots in stage musicals and operettas, revues, and vaudeville.) Katz, E. Film encyc., 1979 When subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical and/or form subdivisions, this heading is used for works about musical films http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/terms.htm sh 85088121 DLC 010310 20121002161343.5 sh 85088121 eng