The Garden of Allah (USA 1936, Richard Boleslawski). Color consultant [Designed in Color by] Lansing C. Holden. Cinematography by W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson. Oscar [honorary award] for the color cinematography.
Credit: Images courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Photographs of the dye-transfer safety print by Barbara Flueckiger.
Contemporary Reception:
Aller, Herbert (1936): The Garden of Allah in the Magic Vestures of Technicolor. In: The International Photographer, 8,11, Dec., p. 26. View Quote
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Anonymous (1936): Film Reviews. Garden of Allah. In: Variety, 124,11, Nov., p. 14. View Quote
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Anonymous (1936): The Garden of Allah with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer. In: Harrison’s Reports, XVIII,48, Nov., p. 191. View Quote
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Anonymous (1937): The Shadow Stage. Garden of Allah. In: Photoplay, LI,1, Jan., p. 107. View Quote
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Evans, Delight (1937): Reviews of the Best Pictures by Delight Evans. The Garden of Allah. In: Screenland, XXXIV,3, Jan., p. 52. View Quote
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J.T.M (1936): The Music Hall’s Garden of Allah Is Technicolor Triumphant, Tarzan Escapes at the Capitol, Two Films Open Here Today. In: The New York Times, Nov., p. 27. View Quote
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Kuhn, Irene (1937): Rainbow ‘Round the Screen’. In: Cinema Arts, 1,1, June 1937, pp. 28–32, on pp. 28–29. View Quote
Lusk, Norbert (1937): Thumbnail Reviews. The Garden of Allah. In: Picture Play Magazine, XLV,6, Feb., pp. 58–59, on p. 58. View Quote
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Selected Analyses:
Higgins, Scott (2007): Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow. Color Design in the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Press, on p. 135. View Quote
Keating, Patrick (2010): Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir. Columbia University Press: New York, on p. 214 View Quote and on p. 216. View Quote
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The Garden of Allah (USA 1936, Richard Boleslawski), faded Eastmancolor print. Credit: Images courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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The Garden of Allah (USA 1936, Richard Boleslawski). Credit: National Science and Media Museum Bradford (Kodak Film Samples Collection). HDR Photograph of the Technicolor No. IV dye-transfer safety prints by Josephine Diecke, SNSF project Film Colors. Technologies, Cultures, Institutions and Joëlle Kost, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.