All earlier films had been made on studio sound stages where the light and color could be controlled.
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When Paramount and director Henry Hathaway advised Technicolor that they wanted to shoot Trail of the Lonesome Pine on location they were told that it simply couldn't be done. Sylvia Sidney is the subject of the camera. Above right, a rare Kodachrome production still of location photography. The next major step for Technicolor production was Paramount's Trail of the Lonesome Pine.Ībove left, a lobby card with Technicolor getting a somewhat bigger billing than Douglas Fairbanks had given it.
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It must be understood that this was the first time that the masses had seen the full color spectrum on the screen, and while it might have appeared garish in 1935, it is quite likely that today's audiences, saturated with color in every medium, would give little thought to the palette used.ĬLICK HERE to see a comparison of the film in Technicolor and Cinecolor As with anything new, the critics dwelled on the use of color, as had the film makers, with some speaking favorably and many condemning the overuse of color and blue specifically. Below, a less blue frame from the film.īecky Sharp was not a critical or financial blockbuster. The cast included Sir Cedric Hardwicke and the lovely Miriam Hopkins as Becky.
But the film itself, seen in a frame above right, had plenty of blue. Whether or not La Cucaracha and those brief scenes made that big an impression on the general movie going audience is debatable, but the property that would receive the first color treatment was the novel Vanity Fair which was produced under the title of Becky Sharp by Pioneer in 1935.Ībove left, a British lobby card, hand tinted as was common up into the 1960s, seems to lack the blue that distinguished the film from earlier color efforts. It is said that the public now speculated on what film would be the first full length feature to utilize the NEW TECHNICOLOR. The new 3-strip process was used in short sequences in five or six features in 1934. Technicolor live action films saw their birth in a film named "Cockroach". The film, released through RKO, was successful and received favorable reviews for the use of the new palette. The budget of $50,000 was more than triple that of a black and white film of similar length. Creating Pioneer Pictures, he carefully dipped a toe in the water by first producing a two-reel short subject, La Cucaracha, a musical comedy. In 1934, financier and longtime Kalmus associate Jock Whitney decided to jump into the movie producer business and make the first live action feature film. Technicolor History 9 T E C H N I C O L O R Early Live Action Films
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