Word: technicolor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventy-seven stars (count 'em) and "1000 Hollywood" beauties (try and count 'em) are appearing several times daily at the Olympic and Uptown Theatres. Although the whole revue is photographed in technicolor, there is little to distinguish it from its predecessors in the field. There is too much material to be handled in the large cast...
...handling of the chorus scenes is outstanding. Even the uncolored half of the picture, especially the dance accompanying "Singing in the Rain", makes effective use of shadows and silhouettes; and the closing scenes, employing an enlarged screen, are among the few good bits of technicolor the movies have thus far offered. "In Orange Blossom Tinte", with its beauty of color and brilliant shots from strange angles, particularly makes one realize that artistic photography did not altogether pass out with silent pictures...
Even the most blase member of the audience will enjoy the short Technicolor sound reel of "Mary and Her Lamb...
...never published. He worked in a few pictures as an extra and showed so much ability that his father's objections to having him in the business gradually lost force. He wrote the titles for The Black Pirate, The Gaucho, and Two Lovers; he became interested in technicolor, probably the only subject of the many so casually learned on which he is recognized as a specialist. He is a fairly good athlete, taller and heavier than he looks in his pictures; in spite of his size he wants to make a cinema of Rostand's L'Aiglon...
...belong in that class which has seen almost all the Zane Grey pictures it wants to see. None the less there is entertainment in "The Water Hole" and the Technicolor bits of the picture are quite good. Jack Holt and Nancy Carroll are the luminaries and manage to tie up the East with the West...