THREE-COLOUR FILM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

THREE-COLOUR FILM.

AN GLO-U.S. PLANS AFOOT. "BECKY SHARP" VENTURE. A film in colour is to be produced in London this summer from the novel, "The Nuptials of Corbal," by Raphael Sabatini, famous writer of historical novels. This will be the first film to be produced in London by the new threecolour process perfected by technicolour under the direction of Dr. Herbert _T. Kalmus, who is in Britain making arrangements for the building of technicolour studios and laboratories.

Dr. Kalmus is in negotiation with Sir Adrian Baillie, M.P. for Linlithgow, Marcel Hellman, the Continental film director, and Douglas Fairbanks, jun., who recently declined offers to return to Hollywood so that he might remain indefinitely in London.

In the last year the quality of film colour has greatly improved, and in the United States, John Hay Whitney and Cornelius Vanderbilt have just completed the full-length drama, "Becky Sharp," with Miriam Hopkins and Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the cast. Owing to a series of misfortunes, "Becky Sharp" has cost £200.000. Nevertheless, Hollywood feels that it may be as critical a picture in film histony as "The Sinprinor Fool," which made all producers of silent films turn to talking pictures.