The Toll of the Sea (1922) 1/5

Directed by Chester M. Franklin

Anna May Wong - Lotus Flower
Kenneth Harlan - Allen Carver

Loosely based on Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly.

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Entertainment

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• silent
• film
• move
• madame
• butterfly
• puccini
• opera
• anna
• may
• wong

[diapes714]

this is the first color movie ever right?

[silentfilmdemocracy]

It's the first feature film produced using Technicolor, but there were other colouring processes used before then. Thomas Edison and Georges Méliès were hand tinting their films as far back as the late 19th century.

[blutey]

Thanks for posting. Wanted to see this film for a while!

[silentfilmdemocracy]

You're very welcome.

[1928javier]

Anna May Wong in a wonderful film, she is a gorgeous actress from the silent era, and deserves to be known by contemporary audiences.

[eroPsych]

I thought this movie was beautiful..but sad. The effects and the smooth running background music made it seem like you were peering into a music box. It was rather enchanting. Like moving art.

[valaurwen]

@diapes714

Jehovah's Witnesses (Bible Students) had the first color film drama I believe.

[SatchmoSings]

This film does have some flaws, the chief on being the total lack of tracking shots due to the hugeness of the technicolor camera; this makes this film less cinemagraphic and more static and stagey.

Other than that, it's actually a very well done film.

[SatchmoSings]

I thought the last 20 minutes of this film were lost?

[sakikatana]

Quite amazing. Not only one of the first color films, but we also get a look at Anna May Wong, the first ever Chinese American movie star. Pretty awesome, I have to say.

[bmiltonb]

This film is a window into the past. It reminds me of looking into one of those sugar Easter Eggs with the little colored diorama inside. Quaint, poignant, and all the more so for the performance of a 17-year-old Anna May Wong. What an accomplished silent film star, and at such a young age! I only wish she could know how her work and reputation have survived her. Thank goodness this movie was rescued from oblivion.

[paltaka2002]

１９２２年当時、すでにカラーで撮影された劇映画が

あったということが驚きです。

UCLAのフィルム・ライブラリーには、この「恋の睡蓮」の

さらに保存状態の良いフィルムが保管されていると聞いています。­

[TheRoseYao]

Just what I expected of such a great actress, I already love this movie!

[serjitup2]

no i think those films made in the frst ten years of the 1900s were the first, not this 22 years later. A visit to the seaside came ou in 1908 using kinemacolor,and for you retards who think it couldnt be done or was handpainted they filmed in it kinemacolor, i will post a long list of films shot in kinemacolor.

[KawhackitaRag]

@ClinicalAttacked they made experiemental sound films earlier than that, although very few survive (the ones I know about are Edison shorts with the sound simultaneously recorded on cylinder, I think)

[KawhackitaRag]

TERRIFIC! Don't you wish that all movies from this point onward had been in color? I do. Well, at least most of them. I think black-and-white should have been reserved for special effects and certain moods only, but, oh well. I suppose the process was very difficult, time-consuming, and expensive and that is why it took several revisions to catch on. I still don't understand why most movies up until the 1960s or so are in black-and-white, and most from that point on in color.