A Brilliant Colour Film

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 8

A Brilliant Colour Film

NEW PROCESS ON THE SCREEN The application of colour to serceu photography has lagged a long why behind the . many improvements that have marked the amazing advance of the world’s most popular form of entertainment. An enormous amount of time, energy and money have been expended in scientific research, but the secret has for years eluded tho skill and patience of investigators. That we are on the evo of a great advance in .this most fascinating addition to the film’s appeal is evident in the superb colour study now showing at the State Theatre. This first release in New Zealand of the Whitney technicolour process is a short picture entitled “La Cucaracha,” depicting one of Mexico’s national dances in a setting of tho most lavish dressing, and obviously designed to test the resources of the new process to the very limit. Tho whole chromatic scale is exploited in an eneavour to secure the most brilliant effects and the result is a vivid and arresting masterpiece, demonstrating most convincingly the immense value of colour in emphasising the illusion of reality. Most, if not all, of the faults of tho earlier colour processes have been eliminated, and every subtle tone and semitone is faithfully reproduced. The only fault of this iittle gem of' colour photography is its brevity—or its seeming brevity—for it depicts a brilliant dancer in so delightful a setting that the audience longs for more. If the Whitney process can be economically applied to big pictures then the end of the monoChromo film is in sight. Tho production is from the 8.K.0.-Radio studio.