On Apr 5, 2005 12:51 AM, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Untrue ... quickly coming to mind is the 1938 production of Robin Hood, > which was proceeded by any number of color films. Few were lavish > musicals. The first Technicolor movie was The Gulf Between, made in 1917, > followed a few years later by The Toll of the sea starring Anna Mae Wong, > and soon thereafter by a Zane Gray western, Wanderer of the Wasteland. In > 1926 Douglas Fairbanks had a big ht (for Fairbanks), The Black Pirate, and > in 1928, using Technicolor's process 3, came The Viking. In 1930 Warner > brothers produced 15 movies using the Technicolor process, and let's not > forget the mid-thirties production, also by Warner Brothers, of The > Mystery of The Wax Museum, and, of course, the first color animated cartoon > made by Disney in, I believe, 1932 (Becky Sharp also was released about > that time), soon followed by the animated Three Little Pigs. And let's not > forget the famous Technicolor version of Fantasia in 1940. > > As far as I can recall, there were very few musicals, lavish or otherwise, > produced before 1940. The short film, La Cucaracha comes to mind as one, > and perhaps the Dancing Pirate was another. Oh, of course there was The > Wizard of Oz (in what, 1939)? > > Color has been around a long, long time (ninety years or so), although the > early years of color movies were shot on B&W film through color filters, > not thee type of color stock we've become familiar with. >
Relax, Shel. I was just joking around. The MGM musicals in the 40's and 50's were in large part filmed in colour. Many other films were still made in black and white, well into the 50's. I was speaking in very broad generalities, just to make a joke. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
