Marx Brothers in Color

The film is not Technicolor, but Multicolor, developed from Prizmacolor, a Bi-pak two film in an ordinary camera system, responsive to red and blue only, with an illusion of green in outdoor shots. It was cheaper than Technicolor to shot, but more expensive to print, and multicolor had to have Technicooer fo the printing for them till they developed a direct negative positive version. This became Cinecolor used in B movies till after the war, when Ektacolor replaced both makers.

I agree! It puts more focus on the Marx Brothers than it does on their environment.

thank you for sharing, this is great!

The Marx Brothers were probably perfectionists when it came to their movies.

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 remember seeing a colour film of a festival in Munich Germany before the war. It was a private film club I think. What colour systen would they have been using?

wild. so did they make any in coulr?

Groucho actually lampshaded about filming movies in color in "the Big Store". It was in black and white and Groucho pointed out that a woman's dress was actually red but that Technicolor was SO expensive.

Yes it was very expensive. You'd imagine Bette Davis' film about a scarlet woman, Jezebel (1938), would have been filmed in colour, bit alas no.