Becky Sharp (1935)
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Becky Sharp (USA 1935, Rouben Mamoulian), 1945 dye transfer nitrate print from the National Film Archive, Prague.
Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Photographs of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
Contemporary Reception:
Alt, Dirk (2011): “Der Farbfilm marschiert!” Frühe Farbfilmverfahren und NS-Propaganda 1933-1945. München: Belleville, on p. 105. (in German) View Quote
Anonymous (1934): Becky Sharp. In: Variety, 31 December 1934. View Quote
Anonymous (1935): Color on the Screen. In: The New York Times, Jun., p. 14. View Quote
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Anonymous (1935): Becky Sharp And a Leading Lady. In: The New York Times, Apr., p. 4. View Quote
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Anonymous (1935): The Shadow Stage. A Review of the New Pictures. Becky Sharp. In: Photoplay, 48,4, p. 66. View Quote
Anonymous (1935): N. Y. Press Comment on Becky Sharp. First All-Color Feature Film. In: International Projectionist, 8,6, Jun., p. 16. View Link
Anonymous (1936): Color Motion Pictures At The Crossroads. In: International Projectionist, 10,1, pp. 21–22. View Quote
Anonymous (1936): Color Motion Pictures. In: International Projectionist, 11,1, Jul., p. 19. View Link
Dougherty, Kathryn (1935): Close-Ups and Long-Shots. In: Photoplay, XLVIII,3, Aug., pp. 21–22, on p. 21. View Quote
Grant, Jack (1935): Will Becky Sharp Revolutionize Hollywood? In: Photoplay, 48,3, pp. 24-25 and pp. 100-101.) View Quote
Hale, Karl (1935): Learn About Shooting Color from Becky Sharp. In: American Cinematographer, July 1935, p. 312. View Quote
Higgins, Scott (2000): Demonstrating Three-Colour Technicolor. Early Three-Colour Aesthetics and Design. In: Film History, 12,4, Color Film, 2000, pp. 358-383, on pp. 378–379. View Quote
Higgins, Scott (2007): Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow. Color Design in the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Press, on pp. 71–72. View Quote
Kuhn, Irene (1937): Rainbow ‘Round the Screen’. In: Cinema Arts, 1,1, June 1937, pp. 28–32, on pp. 28–29. View Quote
Sennwald, Andre (1935): The Screen. The Radio City Music Hall Presents Becky Sharp, the First Full-Length Three-Color Photoplay. In: The New York Times, 14 June 1935, p. 27. View Quote
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Sennwald, Andre (1935): The Future of Color. After Becky Sharp It Will Play an Increasingly Large Part in Films. In: The New York Times, 23 June 1935, p. 3. View Quote
Tobey, Robert (1935): Cinemacaroni. Becky Sharp. In: International Photographer, 7,7, Aug., p. 32. View Quote
Waterbury, Ruth (1936): Close Ups and Long Shots. In: Photoplay, 49,4, pp. 11-12. View Quote
Production Reports:
Mamoulian, Rouben (1935): Colour and Emotion. In: Cinema Quarterly, 3,4, Summer 1935, pp. 225–226. View Quote
Restoration:
Afra, Kia (2015): Becky Sharp, Technicolor, and the Historiography of Film Style. In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 32,2, pp. 99–123, on pp. 102–103. View Quote
Gitt, Robert; Dayton, Richard (1984): Restoring Becky Sharp. In: American Cinematographer, 65,10, pp. 99–106. View Quote
Slide, Anthony (1985): The Return of Becky Sharp. In: Films in Review, 36, Mar., pp. 148–153. View Quote
Selected Analyses:
Afra, Kia (2015): Becky Sharp, Technicolor, and the Historiography of Film Style. In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 32,2, pp. 99–123, on pp. 99–101 View Quote, on pp. 104–108 View Quote, on p. 114 View Quote and on pp. 116–117. View Quote
Basten, Fred E. (1980): Glorious Technicolor. The Movies’ Magic Rainbow. South Brunswick: Barnes, on pp. 54–58. View Quote
Behlmer, Rudy (1964): Technicolor. In: Films in Review, 15,6, pp. 333–351, on p. 346. View Quote
Bourget, Jean-Loup (1995): Esthétiques du Technicolor. In: Jacques Aumont (ed.): La couleur au cinéma. Mailand: Mazzotta, pp. 110–119, on p. 112 View Quote, on p. 113 View Quote and on p. 116. (in French) View Quote
Grob, Norbert (1991): Farbe im Auge, Ausdruck im Kopf. Hein Heckroths Farbdramaturgien für Powell & Pressburger. In: Katharina Spielhaupter (ed.): Hein Heckroth. Frankfurt/M.: Filmmuseum, pp. 57–78, on pp. 62–64. (in German) View Quote
Herring, Robert (1935): Technicolossal. In: Life and Letters Today, 13, Sep., pp. 194–196, on pp. 194–195. View Quote
Higgins, Scott (2000): Demonstrating Three-Colour Technicolor: “Early Three-Colour Aesthetics and Design”. In: Film History, Vol. 12, No. 4, Color Film (2000), pp. 358-383, on p. 376. View Quote
Higgins, Scott (2007): Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow. Color Design in the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Press, on pp. 49-71.View Quote
Jacobs, Lewis (1970): The Mobility of Color. In: Lewis Jacobs (ed.): The Movies as Medium. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 189–196, on p. 192. View Quote
Keating, Patrick (2010): Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir. Columbia University Press: New York, on p. 217. View Quote
Mamoulian, Rouben (1935): Some Problems in Directing Color Pictures. In: Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, 25,2, pp. 148–153. Download PDF
Mamoulian, Rouben (1960): Color and Light in Films. The Esthetics of Colour. In: Film Culture, 21, pp. 68–79, on pp. 74–75. View Quote
Montesanti, Fausto (1954): Lineamenti di una storia del film a colori. In: Giuseppe Sala (ed.): Bianco e Nero. Il colore nel cinema. Rassegna mensile di studi cinematografici, XV,2-4, pp. 11–51, on pp. 33–35. (in Italian) View Quote
Slide, Anthony (1985): The Return of Becky Sharp. In: Films in Review, 36, Mar., pp. 148–153, on pp. 150–151. View Quote
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ShowHide detailsBecky Sharp (USA 1935, Rouben Mamoulian). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger. -
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ShowHide detailsBecky Sharp (USA 1935, Rouben Mamoulian). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger. -
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ShowHide detailsBecky Sharp (USA 1935, Rouben Mamoulian). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger. -
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ShowHide detailsBecky Sharp (USA 1935, Rouben Mamoulian). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger. -
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ShowHide detailsBecky Sharp (USA 1935, Rouben Mamoulian). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger. -
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ShowHide detailsBecky Sharp (USA 1935, Rouben Mamoulian). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger. -
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ShowHide detailsBecky Sharp (USA 1935, Rouben Mamoulian). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Photograph of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
