That New Step (1929)

[jayescott]

She was Marge "Babe" Cane, and she was her younger sister

[ziggycat999]

Helen Kane was a classic. Everyone wanted to rip off her act including this one. When it came time to lawsuits.......Betty Boop won.

[ScriptWorker]

Great fun, super!

[codyki]

I believe that only a certain few of the musical numbers were in Multicolor, and I'm pretty sure that no color prints or negatives of those now exist, or at least none that have been found. The Kino DVD is fully black and white, with excellent picture quality and well worth having. But it would be quite a find if copies of the color sequences should turn up somewhere, someday!

[swallin19]

Colour was mentioned and yes, the film was in Multicolor, a Bi-Pack 2 colour system that was cheaper to use than Technicolor, but visually less sharp in the colour sequences as the light had to go through two layers of film. "Sunny side up" was in Multicolor as well.

It was developed into Cinecolor, used in budget westerns etc., well into the 1950's.

[otzi08]

is she related to helen kane? she sure sounds like her,

[Corrie121]

This would have been pretty spectacular in colour, but even in black and white it if superb.

Thank you for sharing.

[7557harry]

This is absolutely the BEST!

The clarity of that horn in the begining is great.

Wild set. Great music!

[muscleco]

And who says they never did drugs in 1929? Reminds me of a sequence in the Avengers TV series. Which girl is Mrs Peel??.

[78timothy]

From the Greytones in this Film, and the brightness of the film (Hot Lights and lots of em) this tells me that this sequence may have originally been in color. Researching a bit I found that original portions of this film were photographed in a process called "Multicolor"

Any Color sequences exist in US prints? Because of heavy European distribution, American color sequences may not exist, but

The possibility of european prints w/color sequences that have not been disturbed.

[Euterperocks]

Thank you very much, I wanted to see this again.

[manga12]

O got to love the outlandish artdeco sets spinning, though the fire curtain was neat, I love old art deco the last really elaborate style in the world, real treasures that seem to becomeing lost to time and renovation.

[HarborGuy]

Beautiful "deco" fire curtain........

[monky999]

Great! But she's not fanny brice no matter how hard they tried to make her, her.

[castilloda]

I love that recording

[NILBOGisBACK]

Whatever Happened to Baby Kane?

[sn34k2]

She's dead.

[Somerset45]

she worked for Mack Sennett studios in the 30s-made about 65 movies up until 1951 and died in 1992 at 83.

Sennett Studios is where actors like Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton learned their trade.

[super8monstersmovies]

Baby Kane!

THE GREAT GABBO was, and still is, an early cult film musical, and of the the best!

[bigcity233]

YES - One of the best!

[Somerset45]

The performer's name was Baby Kane. Was she the younger sister of the real Betty Boop-Helen Kane?

[nedsparks]

She's got "It."

[mic33george]

fantastic!thanks for this

[ThorSpirit]

Awesome