 The first use of the overhead camera shot (from the roof of the  sound stage looking down at the dancers forming kaleidoscopic  patterns) is usually credited to Busby Berkeley, the Broadway dance  director whom Sam Goldywn brought to Hollywood to stage numbers for  Edddie Cantor comedies. But a few years before Busbys appearance on  the scene, the overhead shot in used for the first time in an  American sound movie in this movie.