Mark Sullivan:
> Lucas's American Graffiti came out the same year as
Mean Streets, 1973.
> However, Scorsese was already experimenting with the
use of pop music in
> film a few years earlier in his first feature, Who's
That Knocking At My
> Door? The slipping loop of a doo-wop song makes the
rape scene even
> more horrific.
>
> However, as Scorsese and Lucas have both noted, they
owe a huge debt to
> Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1964) when it comes
to the use of '50s
> pop tunes in film.
Rock around the Clock is playing as the opening credits roll
in Blackboard Jungle. That came out in 1955 and is supposedly
the first use of rock music in movies. Mark
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