What pioneering Egyptian film genre, popular from the 1940s through the 1960s, mixed songs, dance numbers, and melodramatic romance, built around star singers like Farid al-Atrash and Shadia?

• A Film shâ'bi (folk film)
• B Film ghinâ'i (musical melodrama) ✓
• C Film jamâ'i (ensemble comedy)
• D Film târikhi (historical epic)

The film ghinâ'i, or Arabic musical melodrama, was the dominant commercial genre of the golden age — films averaged six or seven self-contained song-and-dance set pieces woven into romantic plots, a formula that Studio Misr perfected and that made Cairo the musical cinema capital of the Arab world.