ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of music, dance and sound technologies in Polish romantic comedies of the 1930s: Piętro wyżej ([One Floor Above], dir. Leon Trystan, 1937), Paweł i Gaweł ([Paweł and Gaweł], dir. Mieczysław Krawicz, 1938), Zapomniana melodia ([Forgotten Melody], dir. Konrad Tom and Jan Fethke, 1938) and Będzie lepiej ([Things Will Get Better], dir. Michał Waszyński, 1936). It argues that in these films music and sound serve the main narrative about love and are used to show Polish modernisation during this period by including the motif of the radio. Utopianism is juxtaposed with an affirmation of the political and economic status quo.
