Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settings are excellent: this is the New York of the early century without the dependence on costume with which Hollywood is so often content. So many of these period pieces are in technicolor, with gala balls and sparkling lights. "Experiment Perlious emphasizes plush and bric-a-brac furnishings of the claustrophobic New York houses that graced the day and are in many cases still standing; in this respect it excels its cinematic model, "Gaslight...
Columbia's "A Song to Remember" combines lush technicolor with the music of Frederic Chopin in a pleasant, if unauthentic, representation of the famous pianist-composer's life...
When Hollywood gives Technicolor a free hand, the results are invariably more comparable to opera than to drama; but Hollywood seldom knows which form it is chasing. To Universal's "Can't Help Singing," the only apparent parallel, outside of cinematic predecessors, is Puccini's questionable "Girl of the Golden West...
Metro and Paramount are the most frequent employers of Technicolor. Universal's dabblings, in this case at any rate, descend to color per so. In black-and-white, "Can't Help Singing" would be nothing. Even with Color, music by Jerome Kern, and stiff, conventional acting by Deanna Durbin and Robert Paige, it represents the lowest in a painfully low series...
...Frenchman's Creek" is an example of what Technicolor, aided by a good musical background, can do to make even a mediocre film stimulating and entertaining, if you're not too critical...