List of early color feature films - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of early color feature length films from 1903-1935, when the Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

three-strip process ("Process 4") was introduced. On the list below, all movies prior to The Show of Shows
The Show of Shows (film)
The Show of Shows is a lavish all talking Vitaphone musical revue film which cost $850,000 to make. The Show of Shows was Warner Bros. fifth color movie, the first four were The Desert Song , On With the Show , Gold Diggers of Broadway and Paris . This movie featured most of the contemporary...

(1929) are silent films. About 36 percent of the movies on this list are thought to be lost film

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

s, with no prints surviving, or with only partial prints surviving. (This does not include movies that now exist only in black-and-white prints.)

The earliest attempts to produced color films involved hand-painting the negative or tinting

Film tinting

Film tinting is the process of adding color to black-and-white film, usually by means of soaking the film in dye and staining the film emulsion...

it with dye. Stencil

Stencil

A stencil is a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, or metal, with letters or a design cut from it, used to produce the letters or design on an underlying surface by applying pigment through the cut-out holes in the material. The key advantage of a stencil is that it can be reused to...

-based techniques such as Pathéchrome and the Handschiegl color process

Handschiegl Color Process

The Handschiegl color process produced motion picture film prints with color artificially added to selected areas of the image. Aniline dyes were applied to a black-and-white print using gelatin imbibition matrices.-History of the process:...

were an extension of this. Several dyes were rolled over the negative, each with an appropriate stencil underneath to restrict the dye to the desired parts of the print. Since transparent dye preserved the varying brightness of the black and white image, the result could look rather naturalistic, but in fact the choice of what colors to use and where was made by a person. Kinemacolor

Kinemacolor

Kinemacolor was the first successful color motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith of Brighton, England in 1906. He was influenced by the work of William Norman Lascelles Davidson. It was launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of...

was the first process to capture natural color on film stock.

Technicolor

Beginning in 1932, Technicolor introduced a new color process -- "Process 4", with one negative for each primary color and a "matrix" to improve contrast. This became the standard for the major Hollywood studios.

First cartoon (or film of any kind) in the new process: Flowers and Trees
Flowers and Trees
Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932...

(Walt Disney/United Artists, July 1932)
First live-action monochrome features with one Technicolor sequence: The Cat and the Fiddle (MGM, February 1934), The House of Rothschild (20th Century Pictures/United Artists, April 1934), Kid Millions
Kid Millions
Kid Millions is an American film directed by Roy Del Ruth, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and starring Eddie Cantor.-Plot:The story features Eddie, a kid from Brooklyn, New York,...

(Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists, December 1934)
First live-action short films in the new process: Service With a Smile (Warners, 28 July 1934), Good Morning, Eve! (Warners, 5 August 1934), La Cucaracha
La Cucaracha (1934 film)
La Cucaracha is a 1934 short musical film directed by Lloyd Corrigan. It was designed by Pioneer Pictures to display the new full-color Technicolor Process No. 4 , which had been used since 1932 mainly in Walt Disney cartoons. Jock Whitney and his cousin C. V. Whitney, the owners of Pioneer, were...

(RKO, 31 August 1934)
First live-action feature film in the new process: Becky Sharp (Pioneer Pictures/RKO, 1935)

Constance Bennett

-Early life:She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison , a wealthy performer of English and Spanish ancestry...

and her husband Henri de la Falaise

Henri de la Falaise

Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, born James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise , was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometimes actor and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.His actual surname was Le...

produced two feature-length documentaries Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935) in Bali

Bali

Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...

, and Kliou the Killer Tiger (1936) in Indochina

Indochina

The Indochinese peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly southwest of China, and east of India. The name has its origins in the French, Indochine, as a combination of the names of "China" and "India", and was adopted when French colonizers in Vietnam began expanding their territory...

, both in the two-color Technicolor process. However, only Legong survives in color.

Title	Year	Process	Length of color	Studio	Preservation Status
La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ Vie et Passion du Christ Vie et Passion du Christ is a 44-minute French silent film that was produced and released in 1903. As such, it is one of the earliest feature-length narrative films....	France, 1903	Pathéchrome		Pathé Frères Pathé Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...	Extant. Also known as The Passion Play and Vie et Passion du Christ
With Our King and Queen Through India With Our King and Queen Through India With Our King and Queen Through India is a British documentary. The film is silent and made in the Kinemacolor additive color process....	UK, 1912	Kinemacolor Kinemacolor Kinemacolor was the first successful color motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith of Brighton, England in 1906. He was influenced by the work of William Norman Lascelles Davidson. It was launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of... (first natural color process)		National Kinemacolor Ltd.	Two hours exist, of what may have been a six-hour documentary of the Delhi Durbar Delhi Durbar The Delhi Durbar , meaning "Court of Delhi", was a mass assembly at Coronation Park, Delhi, India, to mark the coronation of a King and Queen of the United Kingdom. Also known as the Imperial Durbar, it was held three times, in 1877, 1903, and 1911, at the height of the British Empire. The 1911... , filmed on 12 December 1911 and released on 2 February 1912.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1914 film) The World, the Flesh and the Devil was a British silent drama film, and was the world's first dramatic feature film to be photographed in color...	UK, 1914	Kinemacolor		National Kinemacolor Ltd.	Lost film Lost film A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons... . The first narrative feature in natural color.
Little Lord Fauntleroy Little Lord Fauntleroy Little Lord Fauntleroy is the first children's novel written by English playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in the St. Nicholas Magazine between November 1885 and October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's in 1886...	UK, 1914	Kinemacolor		National Kinemacolor Ltd.	Lost film.
Joan the Woman Joan the Woman Joan the Woman is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar as Joan of Arc.It was the first film to use the Handschiegl Color Process for certain scenes...	1916	Handschiegl Color Process Handschiegl Color Process The Handschiegl color process produced motion picture film prints with color artificially added to selected areas of the image. Aniline dyes were applied to a black-and-white print using gelatin imbibition matrices.-History of the process:... inserts		Famous Players-Lasky Famous Players-Lasky Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company created on July 19, 1916 from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company -- originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays -- and Jesse L...	Survives complete with color sequences. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille Cecil B. DeMille Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies... . (Color was billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process")
The Gulf Between	1917	Technicolor Technicolor Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952... feature		Technicolor Corporation	Lost film Lost film A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons... (a few frames of the film exist, showing star Grace Darmond Grace Darmond Grace Darmond was an American actress from the early 20th century.-Early life:Grace Darmond was born Grace Glionna in Toronto on November 20, 1893. Her parents were James Glionna, a U.S.-born musician who had lived in Canada since 1877, and Alice Glionna, an Ontario native.-Career:Darmond was... )
The Devil-Stone The Devil-Stone The Devil-Stone is a 1917 romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film had sequences filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process ....	1917	Handschiegl Color Process inserts		Famous Players-Lasky	Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Only two reels survive in AFI American Film Institute The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act... collection at Library of Congress Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and... .
Cupid Angling Cupid Angling Cupid Angling is a silent film, the fifth feature film photographed in color.The film was produced by Leon F. Douglass's National Color Film Company in the Lake Lagunitas area of Marin County, California, and was made in the Douglass Natural Color process, the only feature film made in this process...	1918	Natural Color Leon Douglass Leon Forrest Douglass was an American inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company who registered approximately fifty patents, mostly for film and sound recording techniques.-Life and professional career:...		Douglass Natural Color Film Inc.	Lost film. Only feature film made in this process.
The Glorious Adventure The Glorious Adventure The Glorious Adventure was an American silent film which was one of the last made in the Kinemacolor process.-Production background:...	1918	Kinemacolor		Goldwyn Pictures Goldwyn Pictures Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Samuel Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn using an amalgamation of both last names to create the name...	Directed by Hobart Henley Hobart Henley Hobart Henley was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter.... . Status unknown.
Treasure Island Treasure Island (1920 film) Treasure Island is a 1920 silent film adaptation of the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, directed by Maurice Tourneur, and released by Paramount Pictures...	1920	Hand coloring (?Handschiegl)		Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...	Directed by Maurice Tourneur Maurice Tourneur Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the... . Lost film.
Roman Candles (Yankee Doodle Jr.)	1920	Handschiegl Color Process inserts		Cineart	Lost film
Bali the Unknown	1921	Prizma Prizma The Prizma Color system was a technique of color motion picture photography, invented in 1913 by William Van Doren Kelley and Charles Raleigh. Initially, it was a two-color additive color system, similar to its predecessor, Kinemacolor... feature		Prizma Inc.	Five-reel documentary opened 27 February 1921 at Capitol Theatre Capitol Theatre (New York City) The Capitol Theatre was a movie palace located at 1645 Broadway, just north of Times Square in New York City, across from the Winter Garden Theatre. Designed by Thomas W. Lamb, the Capitol seated 4000 and opened October 24, 1919. It was one of the first of the large lavish movie theaters that... in NYC
The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers (1921 film) __notoc__The Three Musketeers is an American silent film based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was directed by Fred Niblo and starred Douglas Fairbanks as d'Artagnan. The film originally had scenes filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process...	1921	Handschiegl Color Process inserts		United Artists United Artists United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....	Film survives in black-and-white only.
The Toll of the Sea The Toll of the Sea The Toll of the Sea is an American drama film, directed by Chester M. Franklin, produced by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, released by Metro Pictures, and featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role....	1922	Technicolor feature	3190 ft.	Technicolor/Metro Pictures Metro Pictures Metro Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in late 1915 by Richard A. Rowland . Louis B. Mayer who worked for Metro Pictures Corporation early on. It is not to be confused with MGM which is a much later franchise concerning itself, Goldwyn and Louis B....	Last two reels are lost. Available on DVD.
A Blind Bargain A Blind Bargain A Blind Bargain is a silent horror film starring Lon Chaney and Raymond McKee, released through Goldwyn Pictures. The movie was directed by Wallace Worsley and is based on Barry Pain's 1897 novel, The Octave of Claudius...	1922	Handschiegl Color Process inserts	188 ft.	Goldwyn Pictures	Lost film.
The Glorious Adventure The Glorious Adventure (1922 film) The Glorious Adventure is a US/UK feature film directed by J. Stuart Blackton, written by Felix Orman.-Production background:The film was made entirely in Prizmacolor, and starred Lady Diana Manners, Gerald Lawrence, Cecil Humphreys, and Victor McLaglen, and was released by United Artists.Neither...	US/UK, 1922	Prizma feature		United Artists	Directed by J. Stuart Blackton J. Stuart Blackton James Stuart Blackton , usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an Anglo-American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation... . Extant at the British Film Institute British Film Institute The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London... .
Flames of Passion Flames of Passion Flames of Passion was a British silent film drama directed by Graham Cutts, starred Mae Marsh and C. Aubrey Smith, and is now considered a lost film....	UK, 1922	Prizma insert		Astra Film	Directed by Graham Cutts Graham Cutts Graham Cutts was a British film director who was one of the leading British directors in the 1920s. His fellow director A. V. Bramble believed that Gainsborough Pictures had been built on the back of his work. His daughter was actress Patricia Cutts... . Lost film.
Foolish Wives Foolish Wives Foolish Wives is an American drama silent film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. Although uncredited, Irving Thalberg, aged 22, was in charge of production and would go on to become one of the most famous studio heads of all time at...	1922	Hand coloring inserts		Universal Pictures Universal Pictures -1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...	Hand coloring by Gustav Brock Gustav Brock Gustav Frederick Brock was a portrait painter, portrait miniature artist, and an expert on the hand coloring of motion pictures. He was the son of the Danish painter Gustav Brock .... .
Red Lights	1923	Handschiegl Color inserts		Goldwyn Pictures	Extant in black-and-white only.
The Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments (1923 film) The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American epic silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Theodore Roberts as Moses, Charles de Rochefort as Pharaoh Ramesses, Estelle Taylor as Miriam the sister of Moses, and James Neill as Aaron, the brother of Moses...	1923	Technicolor inserts, Handschiegl Color Process		Paramount Pictures	Survives complete. Is on DVD.
Vanity Fair Vanity Fair (1923 film) Vanity Fair is a silent feature film directed by Hugo Ballin and released by Samuel Goldwyn.-Production background:The film included one sequence filmed in color by Prizmacolor. This silent film was a version of the novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray...	1923	Prizma insert		Goldwyn Pictures	Directed by Hugo Ballin Hugo Ballin Hugo Ballin was born in New York City and studied at the Art Students League of New York. When the Wisconsin State Capital was built in the early 20th Century, Ballin created 26 murals for its interior... . Lost film.
The Virgin Queen The Virgin Queen (1923 film) The Virgin Queen is a British silent historical film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Diana Manners, Carlyle Blackwell and Walter Tennyson.-Production background:...	UK, 1923	Prizma insert		J. Stuart Blackton Productions	Directed by J. Stuart Blackton. Status unknown.
I Pagliacci	UK, 1923	Prizma insert		Napoleon Films	Starring Lillian Hall-Davis Lillian Hall-Davis Lillian Hall-Davis was a British actress during the silent era.The daughter of a London taxi driver, her films included a part-color version of I Pagliacci , The Passionate Adventure , Quo Vadis , Blighty , The Ring and The Farmer's Wife , the latter two both directed by Alfred Hitchcock... . Status unknown.
The Uninvited Guest The Uninvited Guest (1924 film) The Uninvited Guest was a drama film directed by Ralph Ince, and starring Maurice "Lefty" Flynn, Jean Tolley, Mary MacLaren, William Bailey, and Louis Wolheim...	1924	Technicolor insert		Metro Pictures	Preservation status unknown.
Cytherea Cytherea (1924 film) Cytherea is an American drama film which featured two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.-Production background:...	1924	Technicolor insert	230 ft.	Technicolor/Goldwyn Pictures	Lost film.
Wanderer of the Wasteland	1924	Technicolor feature	3854 ft.	Paramount	Lost film. Individual color frames survive.
Venus of the South Seas Venus of the South Seas Venus of the South Seas is a feature film starring swimmer Annette Kellerman and one of the last films made in the Prizmacolor process....	1924	Prizma Insert		Lee-Bradford Corp.	Extant. Restored by the Library of Congress Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and... in 2004. Final reel is in Prizma.
Heritage of the Desert Heritage of the Desert (1924 film) __notoc__Heritage of the Desert is a Western film based on the novel by Zane Grey, and starring Bebe Daniels, Ernest Torrence, and Noah Beery....	1924	Technicolor insert	34 ft.	Paramount	Starring Bebe Daniels Bebe Daniels Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent movie era as a child actress, became a star in musicals like 42nd Street, and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain... . Unknown status.
The Dance of the Moods	UK, 1924	Friese-Greene Natural Colour Claude Friese-Greene Claude Friese-Greene , British-born cinema technician, filmmaker, and cinematographer, most famous for his 1926 collection of films entitled The Open Road....		Friese-Greene Productions	Unknown if a feature or short film.
Moonbeam Magic	UK, 1924	Prizma feature		Spectrum Films	Produced by Claude Friese-Greene Claude Friese-Greene Claude Friese-Greene , British-born cinema technician, filmmaker, and cinematographer, most famous for his 1926 collection of films entitled The Open Road.... . Directed by Felix Orman. Last UK feature in Prizma. Status unknown, possibly at BFI British Film Institute The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London... .
The Open Road	UK, 1924	Biocolor		Friese-Greene Productions	A print was restored and shown on the BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... in 2006.
The Thief of Bagdad The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film) The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks. Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Bagdad...	1924	Hand coloring or tinting		Douglas Fairbanks Productions/United Artists	released on DVD by Kino International Kino International Kino International is a film and video distributor, founded by Bill Pence in 1977. Donald Krim bought Kino just months after its founding and served as president of the company until his death from cancer in 2011. Kino, based in New York City, specializes in art house films, such as low-budget...
Ben-Hur Ben-Hur (1925 film) Ben-Hur is a 1925 silent film directed by Fred Niblo. It was a blockbuster hit for newly merged Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the second film based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace...	1925	Technicolor inserts	1029 ft.	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...	Extant. On DVD.
Cyrano de Bergerac	Italy/France, 1925	Pathéchrome feature	9501 ft.	Unione Cinematografica Italiana	Starring Pierre Magnier Pierre Magnier Pierre Magnier was a French actor who began on the stage in the 1890s and became a prominent silent film actor in France. He was the second actor to portray Cyrano de Bergerac in any film in 1925. He continued acting until the 1950s... . Extant.
The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film) The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title directed by Rupert Julian. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force...	1925	Technicolor inserts, Kelley Color /Handschiegl Color	497 ft.	Universal Pictures	One color segment survives. On DVD.
The Merry Widow The Merry Widow (1925 film) The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent MGM romantic drama film and black comedy directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. The film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert and Roy D'Arcy. Joan Crawford and Clark Gable had uncredited roles in the film....	1925	Technicolor insert	136 ft.	MGM	Film survives, but two-minute color sequence is lost.
Stage Struck Stage Struck (1925 film) Stage Struck is a silent comedy film starring Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor, and Ford Sterling. The film was directed by Allan Dwan, and released by Paramount Pictures with sequences filmed in the early two-color Technicolor. The film, including its Technicolor sequences was...	1925	Technicolor inserts		Paramount	Extant with color sequences. Restored by George Eastman House George Eastman House The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and... . Starring Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the... .
Pretty Ladies Pretty Ladies Pretty Ladies is a silent comedy-drama film starring ZaSu Pitts and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a fictional recreation of the famed Ziegfeld Follies. Directed by Monta Bell, the film was written by Alice D.G...	1925	Technicolor insert	597 ft.	MGM	Extant only in black-and-white.
His Supreme Moment His Supreme Moment His Supreme Moment is a silent feature film with sequences filmed in Technicolor, starring Blanche Sweet and Ronald Colman, directed by George Fitzmaurice, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn...	1925	Technicolor insert	517 ft.	First National Pictures	Lost film.
The Big Parade The Big Parade The Big Parade is a 1925 silent film. It tells the story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.The film was...	1925	Applied color by Technicolor	154 ft.	MGM	Feature and color exists.
So This Is Marriage? So This Is Marriage? So This Is Marriage? is a drama film directed by Hobart Henley. The film was originally released with sequences filmed in Technicolor.-Cast:* Conrad Nagel as Peter Marsh* Eleanor Boardman as Beth Marsh* Lew Cody as Daniel Rankin...	1925	Technicolor insert	729 ft.	MGM	Unknown
Seven Chances Seven Chances Seven Chances is a 1925 American comedy silent film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, based on a play written by Roi Cooper Megrue, produced in 1916 by David Belasco. Additional casts members include T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer, and others. The film also stars Jean Arthur, a...	1925	Technicolor insert	275 ft.	MGM	Extant with color. On DVD.
The King on Main Street The King on Main Street (1925 film) __notoc__The King on Main Street is a silent film romantic comedy directed by Monta Bell, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Adolphe Menjou and Bessie Love. Carlotta Monterey, later wife of Eugene O'Neill from 1929 to 1953, has a small role as Mrs...	1925	Technicolor insert	105 ft.	Paramount	Survives complete.
Fig Leaves Fig Leaves Fig Leaves is a 1926 silent comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, released by Fox Film Corporation, and starring George O'Brien. The film had one sequence, a fashion show, filmed in Technicolor...	1926	Technicolor insert	969 ft.	Fox Film Corporation	Extant only in black-and-white.
Beverly of Graustark Beverly of Graustark __notoc__Beverly of Graustark is a silent film directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno and Creighton Hale. The film's screenplay was written by Agnes Christine Johnston based on the novel by George Barr McCutcheon, and set on the fictional land of Graustark. The movie...	1926	Technicolor insert	354 ft.	MGM	Extant.
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii	Italy, 1926	Pathéchrome feature	12083 ft.	Società Italiana Grandi Films	Extant. US Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Irene Irene (1926 film) Irene is a silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore, and partially shot in Technicolor. It was directed by Alfred E. Green and was based on the play Irene O'Dare written by James Montgomery. As reported in the book and documentary film The Celluloid Closet, actor George K...	1926	Technicolor insert	972 ft.	First National Pictures	Survives complete with color sequence.
The Flaming Forest The Flaming Forest __notoc__The Flaming Forest is a film directed by Reginald Barker, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and starring Antonio Moreno and Renée Adorée....	1926	Technicolor insert	203 ft.	MGM	Extant at Library of Congress.
The American Venus The American Venus The American Venus is an American feature film directed by Frank Tuttle, and starring Esther Ralston, Ford Sterling, Edna May Oliver, Lawrence Gray, Fay Lanphier, Louise Brooks, Kenneth MacKenna, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and released by Paramount Pictures. Brooks appears, in her first credited...	1926	Technicolor insert	1574 ft.	Paramount	Lost film. Two trailers, and brief clip of color insert, survive at the Library of Congress Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and... .
The Black Pirate The Black Pirate The Black Pirate is a 1926 silent adventure film shot entirely in two-strip Technicolor about an adventurer and a "company" of pirates. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, and Billie Dove.-Plot:...	1926	Technicolor feature	8124 ft.	United Artists	Original version survives in 2 strip Technicolor at the BFI. A color restoration is from outtakes. On DVD.
The Fire Brigade The Fire Brigade __notoc__The Fire Brigade, also called Fire! is a silent film directed by William Nigh.Film historian Kevin Brownlow used scenes from this film's climax to open his 13-hour documentary Hollywood...	1926	Applied color sequence	692 ft.	MGM	Extant.
The Joy Girl The Joy Girl The Joy Girl is an American silent comedy film starring Olive Borden, and based on the novel of the same name by May Edginton.-Plot:...	1926	Technicolor insert	285 ft.	Fox	A copy may survive in the Museum of Modern Art Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world... film archive.
The King of Kings	1927	Technicolor inserts		DeMille Productions/Pathé Exchange Pathé Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...	Survives complete. Is on DVD.
Winners of the Wilderness Winners of the Wilderness Winners of the Wilderness is a MGM silent film, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Tim McCoy and Joan Crawford. In this costume drama, set during the French-Indian War, Rene Contrecouer , the daughter of a French general falls for a soldier of fortune...	1927	Technicolor feature		MGM	16mm print exists. Starring Joan Crawford Joan Crawford Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre.... .
Annie Laurie	1927	Technicolor insert	204 ft.	MGM	Extant with color at the Library of Congress.
The Wizard	1927	Hand coloring		Fox	Lost film.
Napoléon	France, 1927	Keller-Dorian process Keller-dorian cinematography Keller-Dorian cinematography was French technique from the 1920s for filming movies in color. It used a lenticular process to separate red, green and blue colors and record them on a single frame of black-and-white film... sequences		Abel Gance Abel Gance Abel Gance was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse , La Roue , and the monumental Napoléon .-Early life:... /Gaumont Gaumont Film Company Gaumont Film Company is a French film production company founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont . Gaumont is the oldest continously operating film company in the world....	Extant. Keller-Dorian process proved to be impractical.
La Femme et le Pantin	France, 1928	Keller-Dorian process			Status unknown. Directed by Jacques de Baroncelli Jacques de Baroncelli Jacques de Baroncelli was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s....
None But the Brave None But the Brave (1928 film) None But the Brave is a feature film released by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Albert Ray and starring Charles Morton, Sally Phipps, J. Farrell MacDonald, and Sharon Lynn. One or two sequences were filmed in color, possibly Multicolor or Technicolor's System 2. It is not known whether this...	1928	Technicolor insert	549 ft.	Fox	Unknown
The Wedding March	1928	Technicolor insert, hand coloring.	294 ft.	Paramount	Extant. Directed by Erich von Stroheim Erich von Stroheim Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.-Background:...
Red Hair Red Hair (1928 film) Red Hair is a 1928 silent film starring Clara Bow and Lane Chandler, directed by Clarence G. Badger, based on a novel by Elinor Glyn, and released by Paramount Pictures....	1928	Technicolor insert	57 ft.	Paramount	Lost film. Color tests survive at UCLA Film and Television Archive UCLA Film and Television Archive The UCLA Film and Television Archive is an internationally renowned visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles. It holds more than 220,000 film and television titles and 27 million feet of... .
Casanova	Germany, 1928	Pathéchrome insert		Ciné-Alliance/Pathé	Extant. Based on operetta by Ralph Benatzky Ralph Benatzky Ralph Benatzky , Moravia, Austrian Empire – 16 October 1957), born in Moravské Budějovice as Rudolf Josef František Benatzki, was an Austrian composer of Czech origin... .
The Viking The Viking (1928 film) The Viking was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack, and the first film made in Technicolor's Process 3.-Production background:...	1928	Technicolor feature	8398 ft.	MGM	Extant. The first Technicolor feature with sound.
The Water Hole The Water Hole The Water Hole is a Western film starring Jack Holt, Nancy Carroll, and John Boles, based on a novel by Zane Grey, and released by Paramount Pictures.The film had sequences filmed in Technicolor, and was filmed in Death Valley, California....	1928	Technicolor inserts	332 ft.	Paramount	Status unknown.
Court-Martial Court Martial (1928 film) __notoc__Court Martial is a silent film directed by George B. Seitz, starring Jack Holt, Betty Compson as Belle Starr, and Frank Austin as Abraham Lincoln, and released by Columbia Pictures....	1928	Technicolor insert	473 ft.	Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...	Status unknown.
Harmony Heaven	UK, 1929	Pathéchrome inserts		British International Pictures	Extant at British Film Institute British Film Institute The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London... .
Redskin Redskin (film) Redskin is a feature film with a synchronized score and sound effects, filmed partially in Technicolor. Color film was used for the scenes taking place on the Indians' land, while black and white was used only in the scenes set in the white man's world. Roughly two-thirds of the film is in...	1929	Technicolor inserts	4463 ft.	Paramount	Survives complete.
The Show of Shows	1929	Technicolor feature	9987 ft.	Warner Brothers	Only survives in black-and-white except "Chinese Fantasy" scene with Myrna Loy Myrna Loy Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles... and Nick Lucas Nick Lucas Nick Lucas born Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese was an American singer and pioneer jazz guitarist, remembered as "the grandfather of the jazz guitar", whose peak of popularity lasted from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s.-Career:In 1922, at the age of 25, he gained renown with his hit renditions... .
Pointed Heels Pointed Heels __notoc__Pointed Heels is an early sound musical film from Paramount Pictures starring William Powell, Helen Kane, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, and Fay Wray. This movie was originally filmed in color sequences by Technicolor, but today those color sequences only survive in black-and-white...	1929	Technicolor inserts	270 ft.	Paramount	Extant complete at UCLA. Broadcast master is in black-and-white.
On With the Show On with the Show (1929 film) On with the Show! is a 1929 American musical film released by Warner Bros. The film is noted as the first ever all-talking all-color feature length movie, and the second color movie released by Warner Bros.; the first was a partly color, black-and-white musical, The Desert Song . -Plot:With unpaid...	1929	Technicolor	9592 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant in black-and-white. 20-second color clip also exists in private collection. The first all-talking color feature.
Paris Paris (1929 film) Paris is a black-and-white musical comedy film with Technicolor sequences: four of ten reels were originally photographed in Technicolor. Paris was the fourth color movie released by Warner Bros.; the first three were The Desert Song, On With the Show and Gold Diggers of Broadway, all released in...	1929	Technicolor inserts	3645 ft.	Warner Brothers	Picture lost. Soundtrack extant.
Gold Diggers of Broadway	1929	Technicolor feature	9122 ft.	Warner Brothers	Only two out of ten reels of this movie survive. Soundtrack extant.
Sally	1929	Technicolor feature	9280 ft.	First National-Warner Brothers	Extant only in black-and-white. Two-minute color sequence also extant.
Glorifying the American Girl Glorifying the American Girl Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film is basically a Follies production, with cameo appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan and Eddie Cantor.The script for the film was...	1929	Technicolor insert	897 ft.	Paramount	Extant complete. On DVD.
The Broadway Melody The Broadway Melody The Broadway Melody is a 1929 American musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930...	1929	Technicolor insert	307 ft.	MGM	Extant in black-and-white only. On DVD.
The Desert Song The Desert Song (1929 film) The Desert Song is a musical operetta film photographed partly in two-color Technicolor. This was the first movie released by Warner Bros. to be in color. Although some of the songs from the show have been omitted, the film is otherwise virtually a duplicate of the stage production...	1929	Technicolor insert	306 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant in black-and-white only.
Sunny Side Up	1929	Multicolor Multicolor Multicolor is a subtractive natural color process for motion pictures. Multicolor, introduced to the motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma Color process, and was the forerunner of Cinecolor.... inserts		Fox	Extant in black-and-white only.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is a 1929 part Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer American musical-comedy film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format. Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some...	1929	Technicolor inserts	1360 ft.	MGM	Extant
Broadway Broadway (1929 film) Broadway is a 1929 film directed by Pál Fejös from the play of the same name by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E...	1929	Technicolor insert	198 ft.	Universal	Survives in a talking version and a silent version made for theaters without sound equipment. The talking version is missing the final reel, the color sequence, which does survive in the silent version.
Married in Hollywood Married in Hollywood Married in Hollywood is an American musical film. The only known footage to survive is a 12-minute fragment from the final reel in Multicolor at UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film is also known as Maritati ad Hollywood in Italy and Pantremmenoi sto Hollywood in Greece...	1929	Multicolor insert		Fox	Only final reel in Multicolor survives at UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Red Hot Rhythm	1929	Multicolor insert		Pathé Exchange	Only one number in color, the title song, survives.
This Thing Called Love This Thing Called Love This Thing Called Love is a US romantic comedy film starring Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Ruth Taylor, Roscoe Karns, Zazu Pitts, and Jean Harlow. Harlow appears in a cameo role, as she was not yet famous....	1929	Multicolor insert		Pathé Exchange	Lost film except for color sequence.
The Dance of Life The Dance of Life The Dance of Life is the first of three film adaptations of the popular Broadway play Burlesque, the others being Swing High, Swing Low and When My Baby Smiles at Me . The Dance of Life was made with Technicolor sequences, directed by John Cromwell and A...	1929	Technicolor insert	779 ft.	Paramount	Survives in black and White. Part of the Technicolor sequence survives at the Library of Congress.
Footlights and Fools Footlights and Fools Footlights and Fools is a sound film billed by Warner Brothers as an all-talking musical film, released in Vitaphone with Technicolor sequences.-Production background:...	1929	Technicolor inserts	1183 ft.	First National-Warner Brothers	Lost film.
His First Command	1929	Multicolor inserts		Pathé Exchange	No information on color sequences, however not a lost film.
It's a Great Life	1929	Technicolor insert	1391 ft.	MGM	Extant. On DVD.
The Mysterious Island The Mysterious Island (1929 film) The Mysterious Island is an MGM film directed by Lucien Hubbard, a film adaptation of Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse , published in 1874...	1929	Technicolor inserts	7234 ft.	MGM	First reel (with some color) extant at UCLA. Remaining footage extant in black and white only.
Rio Rita Rio Rita (1929 film) Rio Rita is a 1929 RKO Pictures musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. The film is based on the 1927 stage musical produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, which originally united Wheeler and Woolsey as a team and made them famous...	1929	Technicolor insert	2680 ft.	RKO Radio Pictures	Survives in a cut re-release copy with all color sequences.
The Rogue Song	1929	Technnicolor feature	9565 ft.	MGM	Lost film. One reel with a ballet sequence, one reel with Lawrence Tibbett Lawrence Tibbett Lawrence Mervil Tibbett was a great American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone, he sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera company more than 600 times from 1923 to 1950... singing, one fragment of Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema... in color, and the trailer exist.
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 was a black-and-white and color American musical film released by Fox Film Corporation.-Preservation status:...	1929	Multicolor inserts		Fox	Lost film.
The Great Gabbo The Great Gabbo The Great Gabbo is an American early sound film musical drama film directed by James Cruze, based on a story by Ben Hecht and starring Erich von Stroheim and Betty Compson....	1929	Multicolor insert		Sono Art-World Wide Pictures Sono Art-World Wide Pictures Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company that existed from 1927 to 1933. Among their feature films was The Great Gabbo starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze for James Cruze Productions, Inc...	Survives complete except for color musical number "The Ga-Ga Bird". On DVD.
Smiling Irish Eyes Smiling Irish Eyes Smiling Irish Eyes , known as Hymyilevät silmät in Finland, is a sound American musical film with Technicolor sequences.The film is now considered a lost film, however the Vitaphone discs still exist.-Plot:...	1929	Technicolor inserts		First National Pictures	Lost film. Soundtrack discs survive at UCLA.
The Life of the Party The Life of the Party (1930 film) The Life of the Party is a 1930 American musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. The musical numbers of this film were cut out before general release in the United States because the public had grown tired of musicals by late 1930. Only one song was left in the picture...	1930	Technicolor feature	7202 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant only in black-and-white.
Hold Everything Hold Everything (1930 film) Hold Everything is a 1930 early all-talking film. It was the first musical comedy film to be released that was photographed entirely in early two-color Technicolor. It was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical of the same name that had served as a vehicle for Bert Lahr and...	1930	Technicolor feature	7280 ft.	Warner Brothers	Lost film. Soundtrack extant.
The Vagabond King The Vagabond King (1930 film) The Vagabond King is a 1930 American musical operetta film photographed entirely in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film was based on the 1925 operetta of the same name, which was based on the 1901 play If I Were King by Justin Huntly McCarthy. The play told the story of a renegade French...	1930	Technicolor feature	9413 ft.	Paramount	Only complete copy restored by UCLA
Paramount on Parade Paramount on Parade Paramount on Parade is a all-star revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed by several directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V. Lee, A. Edward Sutherland, Victor Heerman, Lothar Mendes, Otto Brower, Edwin H...	1930	Technicolor inserts	2517 ft.	Paramount	Film and all color sequences survive, however sound to some color sequences is missing. Restored by UCLA Film and Television Archive UCLA Film and Television Archive The UCLA Film and Television Archive is an internationally renowned visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles. It holds more than 220,000 film and television titles and 27 million feet of...
Under a Texas Moon	1930	Technicolor feature	7501 ft.	Warner Brothers	Survives in a complete color copy.
Whoopee! Whoopee! (film) Whoopee is a 1930 "All-Talking All-Color" musical comedy film photographed in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film closely followed the stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1928.-Production:...	1930	Technicolor feature	8681 ft.	United Artists	Survives in a complete color copy.
Elstree Calling Elstree Calling Elstree Calling is a film directed by Andre Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray, and Alfred Hitchcock at Elstree Studios. The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film revue and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which had been produced...	UK, 1930	Pathéchrome Inserts		British International Pictures	Extant at the British Film Institute. Co-directed by Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood... .
Hell's Angels Hell's Angels (film) Hell's Angels is a 1930 American war film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, and James Hall. The film, which was produced by Hughes and written by Harry Behn and Howard Estabrook, centers on the combat pilots of World War I...	1930	Multicolor insert	866 ft.	United Artists	Color sequence and film survive complete. Scene filmed in Multicolor, printed by Technicolor
King of Jazz King of Jazz King of Jazz is a 1930 motion picture starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The film's title was taken from Whiteman's controversial, self-conferred appellation...	1930	Technicolor feature	9320 ft.	Universal	Extant.
Chasing Rainbows Chasing Rainbows Chasing Rainbows is a 1930 American romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, starring Bessie Love and Charles King, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.- Film preservation :...	1930	Technicolor insert	1249 ft.	MGM	Color sequences are lost.
Good News Good News (films) Good News is the title of two American MGM musical films based on the 1927 stage production of the same name.The first, released in 1930, was directed by Nick Grinde. The cast included Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards and Penny Singleton. The film was shot in black-and-white, although the finale was in...	1930	Multicolor insert		MGM	Color is lost.
Show Girl in Hollywood Show Girl in Hollywood __notoc__Show Girl In Hollywood is a musical comedy/drama film with Technicolor sequences, starring Alice White. It was adapted from the novel Hollywood Girl by J. P. McEvoy.The film only survives in black and white...	1930	Technicolor insert	832 ft.	First National-Warner Brothers	Extant only in black-and-white.
Kismet Kismet (1930 film) Kismet was a 1930 costume drama photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope. The film was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.-Production:Warner Bros....	1930	N/A		First National-Warner Brothers	Lost film.
Bride of the Regiment	1930	Technicolor feature	7418 ft.	First National-Warner Brothers	Picture lost. Soundtrack extant.
Puttin' on the Ritz Puttin' on the Ritz (film) Puttin' on the Ritz is a musical film, directed by Edward Sloman and starred Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, and James Gleason. The screenplay was written by James Gleason and William K. Wells, based on a story by John W...	1930	Technicolor Insert	953 ft.	United Artists	Extant only in black-and-white.
Mammy Mammy (1930 film) Mammy is a musical drama film with Technicolor sequences, released by Warner Brothers. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, Say It With Songs ....	1930	Technicolor Inserts	1497 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant. The first Al Jolson Al Jolson Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer".... film with color.
Call of the Flesh Call of the Flesh Call of the Flesh is an American musical film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, and Renée Adorée...	1930	Technicolor insert	721 ft.	MGM	Extant only in black-and-white.
Bright Lights	1930	Technicolor feature	6416 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant only in black-and-white.
Children of Pleasure Children of Pleasure Children of Pleasure is a 1930 American MGM musical comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont originally released with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from Crane Wilbur's stage success of 1929 The Song Writer.-Plot:...	1930	Technicolor insert	~700 ft.	MGM	Survives complete in black-and-white. Color sequences extant in sections.
General Crack General Crack General Crack is an all-talking historical costume drama film with Technicolor sequences which was produced by Warner Bros. in 1929 and released early in 1930...	1930	Technicolor insert	532 ft.	Warner Brothers	Survives in a silent copy with no color sequences made for theaters without sound equipment.
Melody Man	1930	Technicolor insert	826 ft.	Columbia Pictures	Extant only in black-and-white.
Follow Thru Follow Thru Follow Thru is a 1930 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be produced by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on the popular 1929 Broadway play of the same name by Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab. The play ran from January...	1930	Technicolor feature	8383 ft.	Paramount	Extant.
New Movietone Follies of 1930 New Movietone Follies of 1930 New Movietone Follies of 1930 is a 1930 American musical film released by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Benjamin Stoloff. The film stars El Brendel and Marjorie White who also costarred in Fox's Just Imagine in 1930....	1930	Multicolor inserts		Fox	Extant -- only copy at UCLA
The Florodora Girl	1930	Technicolor insert	608 ft.	MGM	Extant.
Mamba Mamba (film) Mamba was released by Tiffany Pictures. It was shot entirely in Technicolor and stars Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes, Josef Swickard, Claude Fleming, William Stanton and William von Brincken...	1930	Technicolor feature	6998 ft.	Tiffany Pictures Tiffany Pictures Tiffany Pictures was a Hollywood motion picture studio in operation from 1921 until 1932.-History:...	Extant.
Sweet Kitty Bellairs	1930	Technicolor feature	5846 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant only in black-and-white.
Son of the Gods Son of the Gods Son of the Gods is a black-and-white romantic drama film with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Rex Beach...	1930	Technicolor insert	442 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant only in black-and-white.
Song of the Flame	1930	Technicolor feature	6501 ft.	Warner Brothers	Lost film. Soundtrack extant.
Song of the West	1930	Technicolor feature	7189 ft.	Warner Brothers	Lost film. Vitaphone discs extant.
Viennese Nights Viennese Nights (film) Viennese Nights is a musical operetta film photographed entirely in Technicolor and released by Warner Brothers. The movie was filmed in March and April 1930, before anyone realized the extent of the economic hardships that would arrive with Great Depression, which began in the autumn of that year...	1930	Technicolor feature	9191 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant, preserved at UCLA.
Golden Dawn Golden Dawn (film) Golden Dawn is a musical operetta released by Warner Brothers and photographed entirely in Technicolor. The film is based on the semi-hit stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach.-Songs:...	1930	Technicolor feature	7546 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant in black-and-white only.
Peacock Alley Peacock Alley (1930 film) Peacock Alley is a black-and-white talkie which originally had one color sequence, and is remake of the 1921 silent film of the same name. Like the 1921 version, Mae Murray starred in the leading female role, but little else other than the title was retained from the previous version...	1930	Technicolor insert	651 ft.	Tiffany	Extant; color sequence is at the Library of Congress.
No, No, Nanette	1930	Technicolor Sequences	3895 ft.	First National-Warner Brothers	Lost film.
The Lottery Bride The Lottery Bride The Lottery Bride is a movie musical starring Jeanette MacDonald, John Garrick, Zasu Pitts, and Joe E. Brown. The film was produced by Arthur Hammerstein, based on the musical by Rudolf Friml, and released by United Artists....	1930	Technicolor insert	358 ft.	United Artists	Color sequence survives at the George Eastman House. On DVD.
Lord Byron of Broadway Lord Byron of Broadway Lord Byron of Broadway , also known as What Price Melody?, is an American musical drama film, directed by Harry Beaumont and William Nigh...	1930	Technicolor insert	878 ft.	MGM	Extant.
Leathernecking	1930	Technicolor insert	1474 ft.	RKO	Lost film.
Hit the Deck Hit the Deck (1930 film) Hit the Deck is a 1930 musical film directed by Luther Reed, starred Jack Oakie, and featured Technicolor sequences. It was based on the musical Hit the Deck. It was one of the most expensive productions of RKO Radio Pictures up to that time, and one of the most expensive productions of 1930. This...	1930	Technicolor insert	3772 ft.	RKO	Lost film.
Dixiana	1930	Technicolor insert	2006 ft.	RKO	Extant.
The Cuckoos The Cuckoos The Cuckoos is a musical comedy film, released by RKO Radio Pictures and partially filmed in two-strip Technicolor. It features the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.-Plot:...	1930	Technicolor insert	833 ft.	RKO	Extant.
Delicious	1931	Multicolor inserts		Fox	Extant only in black-and-white.
Woman Hungry Woman Hungry (film) Woman Hungry is a 1931 musical western film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the play The Great Divide which was written by William Vaughn Moody...	1931	Technicolor feature	6119 ft.	Warner Brothers	Lost film.
Manhattan Parade Manhattan Parade (film) Manhattan Parade is a 1931 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was originally intended to be released, in the United States, early in 1931, but was shelved due to public apathy towards musicals. Despite waiting a number of months, the public proved obstinate and the Warner...	1931	Technicolor feature	6692 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant only in black-and-white.
Fifty Million Frenchmen Fifty Million Frenchmen (film) __notoc__Fifty Million Frenchmen is a 1931 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on Cole Porter's 1929 Broadway musical. It was originally intended to be released, in the United States, late in 1930, but was shelved due to public apathy towards musicals. Despite...	1931	Technicolor feature	6480 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant only in black-and-white.
Kiss Me Again Kiss Me Again (1931 film) Kiss Me Again is a musical operetta film filmed entirely in Technicolor. It was originally released in the United States as Toast of the Legion late in 1930, but was quickly withdrawn when Warner Bros. realized that the public had grown weary of musicals. The Warner Bros...	1931	Technicolor feature		Warner Brothers	Extant only in black-and-white.
The Runaround The Runaround (1931 film) The Runaround is a comedy-drama film that was photographed entirely in Technicolor. The film is important as the first to be filmed in a new Technicolor process which removed grain and resulted in a much improved color....	1931	Technicolor feature	5714 ft.	RKO	Extant only in black-and-white, except for color first reel at Museum of Modern Art.
Fanny Foley Herself Fanny Foley Herself Fanny Foley Herself is an American comedy-drama film that was shot entirely in Technicolor. The film was the second feature to be filmed using a new Technicolor process which removed grain and resulted in a much improved color...	1931	Technicolor feature	6699 ft.	RKO	Lost film.
Doctor X Doctor X (film) Doctor X is a First National/Warner Bros. horror and mystery film based on the play of the same name. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Lee Tracy, Fay Wray, and Lionel Atwill....	1932	Technicolor feature	7048 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant. On DVD.
The Death Kiss The Death Kiss The Death Kiss is a mystery film starring David Manners as a crusading studio writer, Adrienne Ames as an actress, Bela Lugosi as a studio manager, and Edward Van Sloan as a film director. The comedy thriller features three leading players from the previous year's Dracula , and was the first film...	1932	Hand colored inserts		Sono Art-World Wide Pictures	Extant. Hand color by Gustav Brock Gustav Brock Gustav Frederick Brock was a portrait painter, portrait miniature artist, and an expert on the hand coloring of motion pictures. He was the son of the Danish painter Gustav Brock .... .
Mystery of the Wax Museum	1933	Technicolor feature	7184 ft.	Warner Brothers	Extant. On DVD.
Radio Parade of 1935 Radio Parade of 1935 Radio Parade of 1935 , released in the USA as Radio Follies, is a British comedy film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Will Hay, Clifford Mollison and Helen Chandler.-Plot:...	UK, 1934	Dufaycolor Dufaycolor Dufaycolor is an early French and British additive color photographic film process for motion pictures and stills photography. It was based on a four-color screen photographic process invented in 1908 by Frenchman Louis Dufay... inserts		British International Pictures	Two sequences were filmed in Dufaycolor. Extant.
Adventure Girl Joan Lowell Helen Joan Lowell was a movie actress of the silent film era from Berkeley, California. Lowell published a sensational autobiography, Cradle of the Deep in 1929, which turned out to be a pure fabrication....	1934	Hand colored inserts		Van Beuren Studios Van Beuren Studios Van Beuren Studios was an American animation studio that produced theatrical cartoons from 1928 to 1936.Producer Amedee J. van Beuren first became involved in the animation industry in 1920, when he formed a partnership with Paul Terry and formed the "Aesop's Fables Studio" for the production of...	Extant. Hand color by Gustav Brock Gustav Brock Gustav Frederick Brock was a portrait painter, portrait miniature artist, and an expert on the hand coloring of motion pictures. He was the son of the Danish painter Gustav Brock .... .
Legong: Dance of the Virgins	1935	Technicolor feature	5054 ft.	DuWorld Pictures (US)/Paramount (Int'l)	Produced by Constance Bennett Constance Bennett -Early life:She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison , a wealthy performer of English and Spanish ancestry... and Henri de la Falaise Henri de la Falaise Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, born James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise , was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometimes actor and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.His actual surname was Le... . Feature-length documentary filmed entirely in Technicolor. Restored in 1999 by UCLA Film and Television Archive. On DVD.
Kliou the Killer (Kliou the Killer Tiger)	1935	Technicolor feature	4917 ft.	Bennett Pictures Constance Bennett -Early life:She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison , a wealthy performer of English and Spanish ancestry... /DuWorld Pictures (US)	Final two-color Technicolor feature. Extant only in black and white. On DVD.

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