Color film began much earlier than most people think–it was in 1908 that Kinecolor process was first introduced. But I’m only one sentence into today’s post and already I’m getting lost in the weeds. The purpose of today’s viewing is to demonstrate a later (but still early) process called MultiColor.
Yesterday I posted a reel of trailers of a number of Marx Brothers movies. The reel failed to include trailers for their first four films and, in an uncharacteristically lazy moment, I theorized that perhaps they’d been lost. Wrong! Above is the trailer for their third film ‘Monkey Business’ (1931)
Here’s a nice little compendium reel of some Marx Brothers movie trailers. It’s by no means complete–the first four films are represented by sloppily assembled half-trailer/half-clip reels instead of proper trailers. (Possibly the original trailers were lost?) And perhaps ‘The Cocoanuts’, which dates from 1929, never had a proper trailer
When America banished Charlie Chaplin in the early 1950s during the height of the ‘The Commie’s Are Coming’ era, Chaplin fled with his wife Oona and their two young children Michael and Geraldine to Vevey, Switzerland where, by all accounts, he led a tranquil life of semi-retirement. Above is a
Let’s close this autumnal week with some madcap 1920s dancing featuring Joan Crawford. Above and below I’ve posted a few minutes from ‘Our Dancing Daughters’, the 1928 silent vehicle that officially launched Crawford’s career and world wide fame. Actually, calling the film ‘silent’ isn’t quite accurate as it was released
Today I offer two views of this week’s subject Gloria Swanson in the late 1920s/early 1930s. Above is a little reel that jams together a few obscure but interesting snippets of film–it’s a bit of a hodgepodge but I thought worth including in our loose and free-wheeling survey of La
Apropos of yesterday’s post featuring a 1965 interview with Gloria Swanson, here’s a nifty little 22 minute doc about the making of Billy Wilder’s masterpiece. I’ll let the film speak for itself. The only thing missing is a discussion of the film’s original opening, shot but cut after a bad
Compare and contrast the animated Ann-Margaret as shown in yesterday’s Flinstone’s clip with the real deal. Above is the opening pre-credit A-M number from ‘The Swinger’ (1966), a film that delivers so much less than its title (and title sequence) promises that, if it were a vaudeville show, it would
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=LegUQIFi07U “World In My Corner” (1956) is a film noir of sorts, starring Audie Murphy as a boxer who falls in love with his milionaire sponsor’s daughter (played by Barbara Rush). The film is of little distinction–except for a very cool credit sequence that I’ve posted above. I’m not sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kubz9fYTTc My readership (both of you) has no doubt been wondering where I’ve been the past week. (Or perhaps they’ve been relieved of the task of watching those daily videos that jam up their inbox every night). The answer is: Ireland and London. The reason cannot be divulged at this