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Most obviously, the musical film was born ; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer / director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street, 1933, Dames, 1934 ).
In France, avant-garde director René Clair made surreal use of song and dance in comedies like Under the Roofs of Paris ( 1930 ) and Le Million ( 1931 ).
The trend thrived best in India, where the influence of the country's traditional song-and-dance drama made the musical the basic form of most sound films ( Cook, 1990 ); virtually unnoticed by the Western world for decades, this Indian popular cinema would nevertheless become the world's most prolific.
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