A Star Is Born (USA 1937, William A. Wellman).
Credit: BFI National Archive.
Photographs of the Technicolor dye-transfer nitrate print from 1937 by Michelle Beutler, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
Contemporary Reception:
Alt, Dirk (2011): “Der Farbfilm marschiert!” Frühe Farbfilmverfahren und NS-Propaganda 1933-1945. München: Belleville, on p. 147. (in German) View Quote
Anonymous (1937): The Shadow Stage. A Review of the New Pictures. A Star Is Born. In: Photoplay, LI,7, Jul., p. 60. View Quote
Bailey, Kent (1937): A Star Is Born Again. In: Photoplay, LI,7, Jul., p. 96. View Quote
Kapetansky, Seymour (1937): Boos and Bouquets. In: Photoplay, LI,7, Jul., p. 4 and p. 90, on p. 90. View Quote
Nugent, Frank S. (1937): Caught in the Showers. The April Cinema Gets a Wetting-Down And Even Harlow and Taylor Shrink. In: The New York Times, 25 April 1937, p. 3. View Quote
Olimsky, Fritz (1937): Farbfilme in Venedig. Deutschland-Film ein grosser Fortschritt. In: Neue Leipziger Zeitung, Aug., n.p. (in German) View Quote
(This text was published in Neue Leipziger Zeitung, an official newspaper of the NSDAP, which supported nazi politics and ideology.)
Waterbury, Ruth (1937): Close Ups and Long Shots. In: Photoplay, LI,7, Jul., pp. 9–10, on p. 9. View Quote
Selected Analyses:
Higgins, Scott (1999): Technology and Aesthetics. Technicolor Cinematography and Design in the Late 1930s. In: Film History, 11,1, pp. 55-76, on pp. 67-76. View Quote
Higgins, Scott (2007): Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow. Color Design in the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Press, on pp. 91–92 View Quote, on pp. 109–113 View Quote, on. pp. 115–124 View Quote and on pp. 197–198. View Quote
Holden, Lansing C. (1937): COLOR! The New Language of the Screen. In: Cinema Arts, 1,2, July 1937, p. 64. View Quote
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