What a production number!!! What is so astounding about all of these old musical numbers is that the sets were actually built and all of the action was filmed, no Industrial Light and Magic here. Trees popping through the floor, fire and smoke, think of the prop crew having to make all of this. And the girls who had no navigate all of this smoke and fire att he end. Just amazing.
The colour shots are missing, they were shot separately to the B/W surviving prints, they were Multicolor process taken over by Cinecolor, but printed by Technicolor under contract. The colour numbers were shot twice, the usual practice, and the colour negs existed only till about 1940, cinema copies existed till the mid 1950's then disappeared.from the archives.
Did you see the lavish Janet Gaynor retrospective at MoMA several years ago? I think they ran every extant piece of film with Gaynor & it was like being in heaven. It was my amazed introduction to her electrifying troika of great masterpieces, "Sunrise," "Seventh Heaven," & "Street Angel," all movies I've seen screened at MoMA or elsewhere several times since & never miss if I can help it. Saw "Sunrise" twice at MoMA a couple of weeks ago & no better film exists. It stands beside "Citizen Kane."
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Saw a magnificently restored print of this at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this past Saturday. There was no color but the print was extremely good and this sequence got a huge round of applause afterward, extremely rare for an interlude within a movie at MoMA. The scene at 5:09 with the writhing dancers beckoning the bananas to inflate astonished even the ultra-jaded 2010 MoMA audience. As pre-Code as it gets. The whole movie is great, especially the phenomenal Janet Gaynor.
tcm claimed that they showed the restored version of this film at thier first popular classic film festival in hollywood which means that his sequence should be back in its cine color look but they could of been lying the print might have been remastered but this sequence not restored so this would be over bally hooing a reprint
B.G. "Buddy" DeSylva by this time was very involved in film production thru Fox. This is a technically very advanced film, for 1929, w/a lot of great technical tricks that were used to cover cumbersome camera and microphone placement , compare this to Paramount's "The Cocoanuts" released in 1929, and Animal Crackcers released in 1930. Not even close technically. The Orchestra is George Olson's Orchestra which was also involved in "Happy Days" (1930) and Follow Thru, also in 1930.
This clip has the richest musical arrangement I've yet heard on a 1929 clip (reminiscent of Paul Whiteman, but more muscular). It appears that by this time they were using playback rather than having the orchestra on the set recorded live--much better sound. Also, note how the Frank Richardson interlude was cleverly designed to, at least partially, conceal an awkward costume change (furry coats to bathing suits). The choreography was really energetic & sexy, too.
Love that DeSylva, Brown (words), and Henderson (music)! I heard that Gershwin's mother told her son, "George, why can't you write songs like that Ray Henderson?" Ha, ha, but Ma, Georgie wrote some good ones, too.
THANK YOU! This is one of my favorite numbers from early musicals! Love Marjorie White and even brassy Frank Richardson, too. Can you imagine how this must have looked in 'Multicolor?! I hope they find that footage someday.
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Incredible stuff. Just brilliant.
swanstep 3 weeks ago
What a production number!!! What is so astounding about all of these old musical numbers is that the sets were actually built and all of the action was filmed, no Industrial Light and Magic here. Trees popping through the floor, fire and smoke, think of the prop crew having to make all of this. And the girls who had no navigate all of this smoke and fire att he end. Just amazing.
MrKEGreene 1 month ago
Venus in Fur
kbaj0 2 months ago
I love Sharon Lynn!
foxtrotgin 9 months ago
The colour shots are missing, they were shot separately to the B/W surviving prints, they were Multicolor process taken over by Cinecolor, but printed by Technicolor under contract. The colour numbers were shot twice, the usual practice, and the colour negs existed only till about 1940, cinema copies existed till the mid 1950's then disappeared.from the archives.
Wonderful number.
swallin19 1 year ago
Did you see the lavish Janet Gaynor retrospective at MoMA several years ago? I think they ran every extant piece of film with Gaynor & it was like being in heaven. It was my amazed introduction to her electrifying troika of great masterpieces, "Sunrise," "Seventh Heaven," & "Street Angel," all movies I've seen screened at MoMA or elsewhere several times since & never miss if I can help it. Saw "Sunrise" twice at MoMA a couple of weeks ago & no better film exists. It stands beside "Citizen Kane."
Onlymusical 1 year ago
You need to change your YourTube name to CARTIER because of the multitude of incomparable quality gems which you make accessible to all (even the unworthy).
5tpxyyrk 1 year ago
The film came on TCM (a nice treat) tonight but there was no color. I guess the color sequences are lost?
Kinoakim 1 year ago
Very enjoyable,THANKS
Bigband78 1 year ago
Saw a magnificently restored print of this at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this past Saturday. There was no color but the print was extremely good and this sequence got a huge round of applause afterward, extremely rare for an interlude within a movie at MoMA. The scene at 5:09 with the writhing dancers beckoning the bananas to inflate astonished even the ultra-jaded 2010 MoMA audience. As pre-Code as it gets. The whole movie is great, especially the phenomenal Janet Gaynor.
Onlymusical 1 year ago
@Onlymusical I was at this screening as well, and loved every creaky second of it! I was absolutely charmed by the entire production.
tjbnyc76 1 year ago
tcm claimed that they showed the restored version of this film at thier first popular classic film festival in hollywood which means that his sequence should be back in its cine color look but they could of been lying the print might have been remastered but this sequence not restored so this would be over bally hooing a reprint
mikemcgee 1 year ago
thanks for posting i haven't seen this for years. always wanted to see it again its kinda racy for 1929. thnks again
cushtichavi 1 year ago
this rivals only the Tutti Frutti Hat number with Carmen Miranda in The Gang's All Here as the most bizarre ever put on film!
djmbm100 1 year ago
Global warming doesn't seem quite so scarey after all, now does it?
braintree2 2 years ago
B.G. "Buddy" DeSylva by this time was very involved in film production thru Fox. This is a technically very advanced film, for 1929, w/a lot of great technical tricks that were used to cover cumbersome camera and microphone placement , compare this to Paramount's "The Cocoanuts" released in 1929, and Animal Crackcers released in 1930. Not even close technically. The Orchestra is George Olson's Orchestra which was also involved in "Happy Days" (1930) and Follow Thru, also in 1930.
78timothy 2 years ago
"Wiggle and Wobble and Warm Up The Hut" --
words to live by.
WayneTuber 2 years ago 7
This clip has the richest musical arrangement I've yet heard on a 1929 clip (reminiscent of Paul Whiteman, but more muscular). It appears that by this time they were using playback rather than having the orchestra on the set recorded live--much better sound. Also, note how the Frank Richardson interlude was cleverly designed to, at least partially, conceal an awkward costume change (furry coats to bathing suits). The choreography was really energetic & sexy, too.
OldMovieDude 2 years ago
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OldMovieDude 2 years ago
Love that DeSylva, Brown (words), and Henderson (music)! I heard that Gershwin's mother told her son, "George, why can't you write songs like that Ray Henderson?" Ha, ha, but Ma, Georgie wrote some good ones, too.
23brookside 3 years ago
THANK YOU! This is one of my favorite numbers from early musicals! Love Marjorie White and even brassy Frank Richardson, too. Can you imagine how this must have looked in 'Multicolor?! I hope they find that footage someday.
songplugger 3 years ago
Multicolor? This was done in Multicolor!?
Fantastic! Let's hope a copy is found!
jameszerukjr 3 years ago
Oh yes! The whole charity party was shot in Multicolor.
stjn00 3 years ago
That's the kind of global warming many of us in the frigid northeastern USA would like to see right about now!
bostonblakie 3 years ago 2