1930-1950: The first classical sound era or First Musical Era
The 1930s through the early 1950s are considered to be the golden age of the musical film, when the genre's popularity was at its highest in … See more

An exception to the decline of the musical film is Indian cinema, especially the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), where most of films have been, and still are, musicals. The majority of films produced in the Tamil industry See more

• See List of musical films by year for a list of musical films in chronological order.
• See List of Bollywood films for a list of Bollywood musical films.
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• AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals
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Spain has a history and tradition of musical films that were made independent of Hollywood influence. The first films arise during the See more

Unlike the musical films of Hollywood and Bollywood, popularly identified with escapism, the Soviet musical was first and foremost a form of propaganda. Vladimir Lenin said that cinema was "the most important of the arts". His successor, Joseph Stalin See more

• Hirschhorn, Clive (1991). The Hollywood Musical (2nd ed.). New York: Portland House. ISBN 978-0517060353.
• McGee, … See more