Music and Time Annotation << Back Musical Film. The Origin and Development of the Genre D.S. Zhivov In this article an author analyzes a process of a musical film genre development. A base for the analysis is a theory by a Professor of film studies at the University of Pittsburgh that every film genre develops through the same exact directions. An genre’s development may process in multiple directions simultaneously. An disappearance of audience’s interest to a films that have elements from some development direction may be considered as a signal of finishing of development process in this direction. Thus, only a total disappearance of target audience to all directions of genre’s development can be an evidence of genre’s obsolescence. All directions of musical films genre’s development are examined with a conclusion about possible audience’s interest to this genre today. Keywords: genre, music, musical, setting, scene. Contacts: E-mail: dszhivov@mail.ru Pp. 10-14.