THREE-COLOUR PRODUCTION

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 July 1935, Page 8

THREE-COLOUR PRODUCTION

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 tec-h----nieol.our studios, and laboratories.

Dr. Kalmus is. in negotiation with Sir Adrian BaiUie, M.-P. for Linlith-

gow, Marcel Heilman, the Continental film director, and Douglas Fairbanks, jun-r., 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 ;tinited f 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 history as “The Singing Fool,” which made all producers* of silent films turn to talking pictures.