Comparison of two Technicolor dye-transfer prints of La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan).
Dye-transfer safety print from 1971.
Credit: George Eastman Museum, Moving Image Collection.
Dye-transfer nitrate print.
Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film.
Photographs by Barbara Flueckiger.
Contemporary Reception:
Basten, Fred E. (1980): Glorious Technicolor. The Movies’ Magic Rainbow. South Brunswick: Barnes, on pp. 50–52. View Quote
Hall, Mordaunt (1934): The Screen. Ann Harding, Brian Aherne and Paul Lukas in a Film of Charles Morgan’s Novel The Fountain. In: The New York Times, 31 August 1934, p. 14. View Quote
Full text on The New York Times website. View Link
Mastin, Mildred (1935): Will Your Favorite Star Survive Color? In: Photoplay, XLVII,2, Jan., pp. 26–27 and pp. 104–105, on p. 27 and p. 104. View Quote
Tobey, Robert (1935): Cinemacaroni. La Cucaracha. In: International Photographer, 7,1, Feb., p. 26. View Quote
Selected Analyses:
Higgins, Scott (2000): Demonstrating Three-Colour Technicolor. Early Three-Colour Aesthetics and Design. In: Film History, 12,4, pp. 358–383, on pp. 364–371. View Quote
Higgins, Scott (2007): Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow. Color Design in the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Press, on pp. 32–39. 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. 191. View Quote
Street, Sarah (2012): Colour Films in Britain. The Negotiation of Innovation 1900–55. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, on p. 185. View Quote
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan), dye-transfer safety print from 1971. Credit: George Eastman House Moving Image Collection. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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La Cucaracha (USA 1934, Lloyd Corrigan). Dye-transfer nitrate print. Credit: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.