Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kukan (Adventure Epics; Rey Scott) is Chinese for heroic action. It is also a splendid 100-minute documentation of Cameraman Rey Scott's 10,000-mile journey through warring China. Filmed in Technicolor, it is a somewhat crudely made, vastly absorbing look at the forging of a new nation from the world's oldest civilization...
Result of this paint-pot parade is the best Technicolor job out of Hollywood to date. But paint is no substitute for dramatic action. Out of the tiresome rhetoric, the pretty posturing of Blood and Sand only the bullfight scenes stand out. One of them is magnificent: a little Mexican boy named Jesús Angel, clad in a breech clout, armed solely with a white horse blanket, hazing a big black bull around a practice plaza de toros in the moonlight...
...Another technicolor saga of nineteenth century industrialism bites the dust at the U.T. this week. After the Pony Express and the first railroad had made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...
...American Republics, headed by Nelson Rockefeller. Looking to the cinema as a potent field for propaganda Rockefeller established a Motion Picture Division. Wise choice to handle this division was hard-working Jock Whitney who has made his Long Island fortune speak Hollywood s language in two profitable ventures-Technicolor and Selznick International. In Hollywood it is chic to know Jock, who plays six-goal polo and owns a racing stable, a privilege to do business with...
Anatomically speaking, Henry Fonda is well-situated in the co-featured "Chad Hanna." This circus tale by Harvardman Walter Edmonds '26 is in technicolor, with Linda Darnell's entire back and Dorothy Lamour's legs combining to give Henry a ninety-minute frustration. We feel for you Henry...