Scenes from "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (1929) Lost color musical!

This 1929 musical, shot in an early Technicolor process, is a mostly lost film. Only incomplete copies of the final two reels, plus the complete Vitaphone soundtrack, still exist. What does remain gives us a tantalizing glimpse at what was surely an extraordinary example of early sound cinema!

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Film & Animation

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• gold
• diggers
• of
• broadway
• technicolor
• talkie
• 1929
• sound
• silent
• lost
• film
• vitaphone

[585michael]

thanks for this!!!!!

[ClarasBeau]

Fascinating... It is better to have just this, rather than nothing. But what an incredible old valentine to the era this is! (If you look closely at this clip, you can see, just before the screen goes blank, that Winnie Lightner is getting ready to be hoisted up (on men's shoulders?) to deliver her final line, which is the culmination of a running gag in the film... This movie made Lightner a superstar at the time, only to see her fame sadly fade in but a few years..). Thanks for posting this!

[3investigators]

This is truly remarkable. Beyond compare. Can't wait to see the full film when it is found. Thank you for sharing this.

[GeoStrum3]

I wish they would someday recreate on the live stage this type of entertainment, but I guess it would be too expensive.

[victorbrunswick]

What I wouldn't to give see live a REAL musical like this and not the rock n' rollderized pale imitations that sadly pass for musical theatre today.

[eightiespopboy]

Love this! Thanks for posting! It'd be great if this full film could be found.