Preceded by: Pie in the Sky: An improvised, anarchistic comedy treatment of unemployed who have become drifters, and their futile quest for aid from the Church-the theme of the old Wobbly song, "Pie in the Sky." A film by the agit-prop group Nykino. By and with Ralph Steiner, Irving Lerner, and Group Theatre members Elia "Gadget" Kazan, Ellman Koolish, Molly Day Thatcher, Russell Collins. (1935, 16 mins, Silent, B&W, 16mm, Print from Museum of Modern Art) Busby Berkeley, less a choreographer than a dance designer, turned people into visual elements and the camera into a kind of omniscient eye relishing in angles impossible to the mere mortal. Berkeley's imagination was truly bizarre, even a tad sinister; The Gold Diggers of 1933 was disruptive in a manner that might not have been lost on the Surrealists. The opening sequence has Ginger Rogers, in giant close-up, singing "We're In the Money" in pig latin, backed by chorines wearing coins over their private parts; in the "Pettin in the Park" routine, Berkeley cuts to such strange details as a caged chimpanzee on a cookie box, a voyeuristic midget, and women's metallic bathing suits which men must pry open with can openers. Seen from above, Berkeley's human flower arrangements, rhythmically opening and closing, might suggest a camp Georgia O'Keefe, but close-up his feminine side turns sour: why the Central Park "roller skate service for little girls who have to walk home alone"? Well, "It's the Depression, dearie," and it's a jungle out there, as the working-girls plot of Gold Diggers of 1933 cynically demonstrates. The haunting "Forgotten Man" number is at once a non sequitur and perfectly apt.