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Gold Is Where You Find It (Warner Bros.) is a Technicolor toast to the stout-hearted California farmers who in the 1870s fought off the mining crowd in the lush Sacramento Valley, saved the land for the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Like most Warner pictures, Gold Is Where You Find It contains capsules of information for the curious, sugarplums for the romantics, action for whistle-&-stomp addicts. With the footnoting style of the documentary film, it begins by sketching the change in mining technique from the pick-&-pan methods of the forty-niners to the high-pressure system...
With a feature in Technicolor, another in black and white, and a short especially compiled to answer the freak demand for old-time "silents," the current program at Loew's State and Orpheum should please just about every generation...
...shorts. Songs, dialogue in verse, dialogue in prose and silent sequences with incidental sound and music have been worked into a harmonious pattern. Catchiest tune: Hi-Ho, as the dwarfs trudge home from work. Tunesmiths: Frank Churchill (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf) and Larry Morey. Technicolor is used with simpler and stronger effects than ever before in motion pictures, giving a vital, indelible reality to the fairyland locales...
...relative perspective may be superimposed, one over the other, imparting an illusion of depth in the finished print. Above these backgrounds the animation cels are grouped. In this process an average 750-foot Disney short takes two weeks to be photographed. After that it is taken to the Technicolor plant for processing, and made ready for final re lease...
...distinguished his work in British films (Rhodes, A Woman Alone). Pug-faced, whimsical Barry Fitzgerald, Hollywood recruit from Ireland's Abbey Players, mugs too, but mugging, reckless shadow boxing and a cinemaddiction to strong drink are the Fitzgerald stock in trade. Ebb Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer). "As long as you wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel Barrymore to the football squad in Navy...