Marx Brothers in Colour (1930)

[BeMyBigHero]

Are we sure it wouldn't be Technicolor 3?

[NScole6407]

It's kind of a good thing to know that for the only color footage of the Marx brothers we see what Harpo really looked like, y'know?

[cfortunato58]

This is incredibly cool. The Marx Brothers actually all looked alike out of makeup. I thought that was Zeppo until he handed Margaret Dumont the horn. Then I realized it was Harpo without makeup.

[karoloandria]

some one shuld color one of the marx brothers movies,

like that new recolorized movies of the 3 stooges

[20sn30sFTW]

Room Service was colourised once. but i don't know where you can find a copy.

[swallin19]

It is Multicolor, which used two films in a bi-pak to shot red and blue shades only in an ordinary camera. It was printed at first by Technicolor, but was developed into Cinecolor where the negs were printed onto further special Multicolor stock on a single strip. It was easier to shot than Technicolor, as the camera had no prisms or filters, but was not as cheap to print as Technicolor. As Cinecolor, with it's own prints it remained in use till the 1950's for B feature films etc.

[cushtichavi]

This is great. So wonderful to see them in colour. Wish there was more. Harpo looked really different without his wig. Thanks for. posting

[The76Twins]

Thank you!! This was fantastic! You see still photos of Harpo out of make up and wig but never really see it on film like this. How wonderful. Groucho looks annoyed- Chico looks great as usual.

[catholicpriest1]

Three strip Technicolor (three films running through the camera to record the red, green and blue spectrums of light)wasn't available until 1932 so this must have been the primitive two strip Technicolor process (only the red and green spectrums of light). I do see blue in the scene however.

[castletriglav]

Nope. Read the description.

Multicolor.

[catholicpriest1]

The description say's "2 strip multicolor".

[Kinemacolour]

I wonder if they planned to film the whole thing in color? That would have been interesting.

[Yadret]

Too bad there isn't sound

[laura20022004]

Chico looks kinda cute tho/ i wish harpo wig was his real hair

[laura20022004]

he looks cute with that wig

[Ethergirl]

How cool is that! I wonder why they didn't make more color films earlier. Thanks for posting!

[GenyaArikado]

more expensive ? more work ? But look at the film Oz, the movie starts black and white but goes in color after 15 minutes. The effects are kinda interesting too.

[georgebettinger]

Any idea what this was made for.

Was it a color test for Animal Crackers

or a Home Movie (not sure if home movies had

color yet) or perhaps it was for Harry Ruby.

There was a famous story about him not receiving a birthday present of a robe

during the making of the stage version of Animal Crackers.

[ragemanchoo82]

I think I've seen a similar film for still photography. It used two colors, I think red and blue. I think those are the two colors we see here, too. I saw one photo of a bridge dating from around 1905 that used a similar process but crisper. With the hues and tones, it looked like a regular 1940s color photograph, which was sort of eerie. :D

[ALSmithey]

I agree! This clip seems so out of place to me.

[LiquidGardener]

Wonderful!

[buslady]

oh cool! Harpo out of costume! great!!

[Andr4s]

i wish groucho was my best friend

[Venling]

Mighty Zarquan! Where did you find that! By housecoat, you mean what most Americans would call a robe.

[ALSmithey]

Robe, yes...

How do I know that you are not an informer for der Kommissar? If I told you, would you name names? I could not glean much from your channel, Venling...if that is your true moniker.

[simbiotic]

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