Word: technicolor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samson and Delilah" is obviously supposed to be something special. It starts off with a three minute overture against a blank screen (tinted royal blue), and the management bilks you out of a buck and a quarter to get in. In addition, the whole shebang is filmed in "glorious technicolor with a cast of thousands." Certain of the scenes were actually taken in the Holy Land, and DeMille caused a huge cork temple to be built which was destroyed in the cosmic finale. Yet "Samson and Delilah" is in actuality merely pretentious and unusually dull...
This is a dubious assertion. "The Inspector General" is a good technicolor musical but it is no comedy masterpiece...
...weeks ago, I borrowed six bits from my roommate and went downtown to see a double feature pairing a picture called "Western Union" with another about Buffalo Bill. Aside from "Buffalo Bill's" Technicolor, they were pretty similar. Both used stock shots of bison chomping grass, both featured hundreds of war-painted extras in multi-feathered athletic supporters, both showed a genuine social concern for the plight of the Indian. More than this, "Buffalo Bill" included some scenes of a burning camp, and these--possibly discovered lying around loose on the cutting room floor--were reprinted in black-and-white...
...three couples sing, dance and clown uninhibitedly against the freshest backgrounds yet exploited by a cinemusical: actual New York landmarks shot on location in Technicolor. In the opening sequence, while the sound track pulses with the three sailors' exultant verses of New York, New York ("A wonderful town"),* the camera carries them from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Rockefeller Center, dovetailing the sights into an exciting flow that piles up both momentum and atmosphere...