corpus week 7: tom thumb

In the 1958 musical film tom thumb there's a musical number entittled "Talented Shoes" in which a man is at the market selling magic shoes, shoes which when put on enable the wearer to dance extraordinarily well.  The shoes are sort of a prosthesis in that they change the physical abilities of the wearer.  Sometimes, the shoes take over and the person cannot stop dancing.  In the film this never turns into anything terrible or dangerous, it's just wacky. 

 

Submitted by Marie on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 12:36pm. Marie's blog | login or register to post comments | printer friendly version