Service With A Smile (1934) Pt 1/3 SURPRISE ENDING

Absolutely dazzling and delicious, this eye-popping 1934 Technicolor musical short made at Warner Bros is a must-see for any person and friends who love this vintage era of music and film. As with GOOD MORNING EVE made at the same time, this features Leon Errol and his corny vaudeville jokes wrapped around one singular idea, and - yippee! - is filmed in full spectrum Technicolor. What a treat. I insist you also read all the other comments on this site for SERVICE WITH A SMILE because they will say all the wonderful things I could repeat. I am not sure what disc from WB this features on but it is a treat beyond expectation. It makes you realize how sensational the Technicolor of the time was and also how hilarious was the WB style of chorus girl comedy. With snappy songs, snazzy deco design and delicious color, SERVICE WITH A SMILE is set in a roadside car service station run by girls and with facilities as risqué as the pre-code days would allow. Whoever said it is a vintage car lovers delight is also correct. I thank whoever has preserved and reissued this short; SERVICE WITH A SMILE is quite perfect. For technical buffs, it is a treat to see the overlapping color lines where some of the negative has shrunk, thus inadvertently allowing us 75 years later to get a glimpse of the technique used. (source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025768/ )

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Warner
• Bros
• Turner
• Classic
• Movies
• Technicolor
• Comedy

[ReidWelch]

Oh, Oh Oh! WONDERFUL YOU.

IT's a perfect transfer. I do not think it could look better on YT.

PEOPLE: I am fifty six years old in May. I I recall seeing the last original prints of ORIGINAL Technicolor Process, color/colour. It was so dazzling, and so SUNLIGHT brilliant, that only original prints and process-projection equipment can possibly DUPLICATE the original, 100% potential of -more-vivid-than-dull-daylight­, real life. More later. Enough for now, and how! Thank you , DISCHARMINGMAN!

[discharmingman]

@ReidWelch

It's my pleasure and privilege Mr ReidWelch.

[Lampshade51]

The color is very good. Glad it survived. A treat.

[KrazyKartoonKid]

@swallin19 TCM in the UK is terrible. They hardly show any CLASSIC movies. Only films from previous years like 2000, 2007 and so on.

[swallin19]

Magnificent, I have waited more than 40 years to see this short Warners Vitaphone, never shown by TCM in the UK. Great copy quality it is wonderful to see these 1930 shorts, which Warners put a lot of effort into due to the cost of the Technicolor, which was just about the period they did the prints at their best. Also good to see Leon Errol with better material than usual, he never really got good scripts in Hollywood, but so popular on Broadway.