Service With A Smile (WB-Vitaphone, 1934)

Here's another early live-action three-strip Technicolor short, with Leon Errol starring in a 1934 Warner Brothers-Vitaphone comedy, "Service With A Smile."



Screenplay and dialog by Eddie Moran and A. Dorian Otvos.



This short was directed by Roy Mack.

Steffi In Technicolor

Released theatrically by RKO Radio Pictures in 1934, here are Steffi Duna, Don Alvarado, and Paul Porcasi in the Academy Award-winning short subject "La Cucaracha."  This was the first live-action short subject to be filmed in three-strip Technicolor.



Made by Pioneer Pictures,  with screen play by Jack Twist and Jack Wagner (based upon the story by Lloyd Corrigan and Carly Wharton), this short was photographed by Ray Rennahan, designed in color by Robert Edmond Jones, produced by Kenneth MacGowan,  and directed by Lloyd Corrigan.



Enjoy!

How Bout Some Animation History?

This is believed to have been the first animation segment done in Technicolor (this looks like the two-strip variety). This is a segment from the 1930 Universal feature "The King of Jazz," which starred Paul Whiteman and his orchestra.



The animation was supervised by director-animators Walter Lantz and Bill Nolan.