Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unnecessary to analyze the failure of the film--it's just flat. Miss Del Rio is highly decorative but will never score a success in a film which offers her no support--she can't act and she needs help from somebody who can. Pat O'Brien is not this somebody...
Near Miacatlan on a tour of Mexico with his fiancée, Ellen Mary Byron Gloor of Manhattan, Otto Kym came upon Miss Gloor struggling in the arms of their native chauffeur, Aloises Lopez. Kym focused his movie camera, shot the scene, turned Lopez and the film over to police...
...this time the only producer who would listen to him was Walt Disney, whose Silly Symphonies in 1932 were the first movies made with the new three-color process and the ones which inspired Producer Cooper to interest the Whitneys in color. Said Color Director Jones: ". . . Black & white films had never interested me. Nor had the old two-color process, with its limited color range. . . . The technique of color is mechanically perfect now. Just as soon as the public gets a taste for color, it will no more consider going to a 'black & white' movie than it would...
...less impressive, since its effort to achieve reality calls attention to its failure. Hollywood producers, though most of them expect color to arrive eventually, were still timidly dubious last week. That it costs about 30% more than black & white production (for stronger lighting, expert cameramen, special cameras and added film and processing cost) was only a minor reason for their feeling...
Stars. Major cause of Hollywood's fear of color is the fact that if it supersedes black & white film, it will destroy the value of a star whose pigmentation is unsuitable, as sound destroyed the value of squeaky or hopelessly uncultivated ones in 1927. Color experts think that blondes with clearly chiseled features have the best chance. The star of Becky Sharp was chosen because, if the picture does produce a Hollywood upheaval, she is the actress surest to survive...