Marx Brothers in Colour (1930)

According to www.marx-brothers.org, this footage was shot in 1930 at Astoria Studios in (probably) 2-colour Multicolor, a precursor to Cinecolor. The fellow in the housecoat who is the centre of the scene is Adolph (Harpo) Marx. The scene is from the entrance of the Professor in the film version of Animal Crackers.

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[20sn30sFTW]

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

[karoloandria]

some one shuld color one of the marx brothers movies,

like that new recolorized movies of the 3 stooges

[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.

[catholicpriest1]

The description say's "2 strip multicolor".

[castletriglav]

Nope. Read the description.

Multicolor.

[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