"A Star Is Born" (1937)

This movie is one of those that it's how you spin it. The main view that the movie emphasizes is about the cost and heartache that comes along with getting your dreams. They do accomplish this, but the movie could easily be said to be about something else due to the amount of screen time it gives to other matters as related as they might be. I'm not sure, but I think one of the original novelties of this picture is the idea of shooting one scene with three cameras--so you only have to shoot it once, then you have options to edit from. Music was (obviously) still studio orchestra--but seemed to fit what I now have associated as the "older movie" style of music; so, the music is past the "beginning".