Busby Berkeley, a dance designer, turned people into visual elements and thecamera into a kind of omniscient eye relishing in angles impossible forthe mere mortal to obtain. Berkeley's imagination was truly bizarre,even a tad sinister; The Gold Diggers of 1933 was disruptive in a mannerthat might not have been lost on the Surrealists. Ginger Rogers, ingiant close-up, sings "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 strangedetails as a caged chimpanzee on a cookie box, a voyeuristic midget, andwomen's metallic bathing suits which men must pry open with can openers.Well, it's the Depression, dearie, and it's a jungle out there, as theworking-girls plot of Gold Diggers of 1933 cynically demonstrates. Thehaunting "Forgotten Man" number is at once a non sequitur andperfectly apt. (JB)