Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the nation's name bands and singers are signed to movie contracts; many of the nation's hit songs are coming from Hollywood; and Technicolor has overcome a fundamental problem that black & white photography posed; in Technicolor there is no loss of leg-art allure...
Released this week were two alluring Technicolor musicals...
...Faye & Co. tour Pacific Street's colorful saloons, stage a novel roller-skating dance, hop to Europe for a magnificent shot of a Dutch tulip field, and by way of plot attempt to prove that never the Barbary Coast (John Payne) and Nob Hill (Lynn Bari) shall meet. Technicolor does justice to Miss Bari's talents...
...Arizona, not Arabia, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba are comics, and the story revolves around a dispute between two brothers as to who shall buy Caliph. Whatever liberties Hollywood has taken with the original are more than justified by luscious harem scenes and Maria Montez in technicolor. As a movie it is worth one, but as entertainment at least...
...Front in North Africa (U.S. Signal Corps-Warner) might be more appropriately titled "Darryl Zanuck's War." A Technicolor panorama of the early stages of the North African invasion, it was filmed by 42 Signal Corps photographers under Cinemaestro Zanuck's personal direction. It has all the Zanuck fingerprints: it is flamboyant, melodramatic, sometimes corny, sometimes hysterical-but never dull. A pretty picture, it never approaches the unvarnished realism of the best Nazi or Soviet war films...