KENTUCKY DERBY IN COLOUR.
For the first time in the history of the motion picture the Kentucky Derby will be seen on the screen in full natural colour when "Kentucky," the 20th Century-Fox technicolour production featuring Loretta Young, Richard Greene, and Walter Brennan, is released. In the many years that newsreel companies have been filming the running of the Derby, no shots have been made in anything but black and white. "With the aid of race officials and stable owners, the director was given every facility. "Kentucky," a. romance of the blue grass country, is said to have captured the tradition of that State. Loretta Young and Richard Greene are seen as the two young lovers who are born to the traditional enmity between their families which wihch has carried on ever since the Civil War days
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 20
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137KENTUCKY DERBY IN COLOUR. Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 20
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