I remember watching these movies on late night television as a young teenager, probably 13. Of course on a black and white tv. Back in the days when stations went off the air around 1a or 2a. The good old days before 40% of the country went insane. I still remember the amazement I felt seeing a color tv for the first time.
@@robbrown4621 In the early 60s Bonanza was one of the very first shows in color. Friends of my parents invited our family to come watch one Sunday when they bought a new color tv. At the time, just before true color, the top third of the screen was a blue tint, the middle yellowish, and the bottom third was green. By the mid 60s many shows were going to color. My father finally gave in and bought one. We joked because Hogab's Heros just switched from B&W to color as that was his favorite show.
Our first color set was a huge cabinet console deal with a turntable and built in speakers. It only lasted about a week, but I saw Bonanza in color for the first time before the tube blew. I was six, so this was 1959.
Hollywood Party: 3:47 I listened to the rum lyrics three times to be sure of what I heard. OMG. To this day, I never heard anything like that. A big Thanks and Subscribed.
Most of this was two-strip Technicolor; experimental three-strip was used in cartoons and some short subjects. It was quite expensive. The girls look pretty good.
Sorry, but everyone 'wasn't' in great shape. (Did you not notice the overweight men in these clips?) The dancers were fit BECAUSE they were dancers. Dance is exercise
1:20>Normas Shearer, John Gilbert, Lionel Barrymore. 3:15> Good movie w/the wise cracking Glenda Farrell and Fay Wray a year before King Kong. Actually filmed in color.
It was amazing what they could do using only red and green. The films with the technicolor inserts had to have the inserts spliced into each reel they sent to the theaters. This was very expensive. So cheaper theaters usually had only a b/w prints of the film and that's the way they were shown on TV. It wouldn't be until the digital age that most of these films could be seen the way they were originally filmed.
You rarely see 2 color Technicolor. I don't know how these were sourced but I wonder if any of the surviving footage has ever been properly restored to reproduce the actual colours they used back then. Still, in 1929 any colour at all was probably considered amazing. Thanks for compiling these!
@@michiganjfrog Personally I Think Betty Boop Looks Beautiful as a Redhead and a Brunette. And by the way Betty Boop is My All Time Favorite Actress , Cartoon icon & Female Celebrity. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
I may be the only one who cares, but the music accompanying the dance in The Devil's Cabaret is called "Come Hot It Up With Me" and is uncredited. Pity. it's a hot number!
A lot of those Betty Boop and early Fleischer cartoons were banned from tv as late as the 1980s and for all I know, still aren't available. Though I would guess that many are available somewhere on the internet and on dvd .
Fantastic job as always. Are all of these early three strip color films (no colorizing)? That was very expensive to film. Interesting choice of films to shoot in it.
Thanks! There is no colorization. They were all filmed in 2-strip color. Dr. X, Whoopee!, King of Jazz, and Mystery of the Wax Museum were features done entirely in 2-strip. The Hollywood Revue of 1929, Hollywood Party, Dixiana and Glorifying the American Girl had some sequences in color.
Hollywood was shooting a lot of films in Technicolor process three (what we think of as Technicolor is process 4 (The Wizard of Oz, GWTW). A movie magazine declared in about 1928 that by 1939 all films would be in color. But that was before the stock market crashed.
Very few would even make the link. They see their grandmother as just some old or elderly woman. Seems younger people don't understand that their grandmothers were young once and probably got up to things they have never thought of.
150 Million Americans with Estimated 500 million guns and 12 trillion rounds of ammunition. USA Gov is the Largest Arms Dealer in the World yet they want to take our civilian guns away
Some of the source material isn't too awful. It appears most of this came from ancient one-light 16mm prints. 2-color was limited, but, even then, Technicolor wouldn't have timed people to have green skin.
Of course, as I am sure you know, Franklin Pangbourn and Sidney Toler in the beginning are of special note. Franklin, a gay man playing a fey character, had a long career before open homosexuality was acceptable; and Sidney Toler played Charlie Chan at a time any real Asian actor could not have (tho' he played it with respect).
What's gone today is the titillation that excites someone's imagination. In some, if not most, of today's film you see the whole enchilada. So to speak. One doesn't need an imagination.
Thank you, but I have since found out that in regards to Hollywood movies it... was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929 and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines in 1934
Although it was made in 1933, Ecstasy was a Czech film that wasn’t distributed in the U. S. until after Code enforcement. In 1935, the film was imported to the U.S. but was seized by U.S. Customs agents. It’s a film that had a long, fascinating history of censorship in the U.S. and elsewhere.
According to an article on the Venice Film Festival in 2019, which screened the restoration of Ecstasy, no elements of the original release were preserved. For their 4K restoration, the Czech Film Archive used other versions and Czech elements from subsequent releases. Contributing to the restoration were the British and Danish Film Institutes, Cinematheque16, Austria’s Film Archive, Gaumont and others. This is likely the closest version to the original release available.
The Hayes code started in 1930 and wasn't really enforced until 1934. Colorizing film actually loses a lot of the definition you see in the original film. This was hardly the more scandalous films that were out there. There are also many films that have been lost due to age and destruction.
@@starwindhawking8997 These clips are not colorized. The films were shot in 2-strip Technicolor. Most have not been restored and the colors have faded. Some, however, like Mystery of the Wax Museum and King of Jazz have been restored and look great. But, again, they are 2-strip and not 3-strip Technicolor. Two-strip didn’t show colors like blue and yellow.
One thing these clips prove is that great legs never go out of style!
All that scrumptous cream cheese -- hehehe
I remember watching these movies on late night television as a young teenager, probably 13. Of course on a black and white tv. Back in the days when stations went off the air around 1a or 2a. The good old days before 40% of the country went insane. I still remember the amazement I felt seeing a color tv for the first time.
I agree with you. First color show on TV I saw was at a friend's house when they bought a color TV. That show as Batman! :)
@@robbrown4621 In the early 60s Bonanza was one of the very first shows in color. Friends of my parents invited our family to come watch one Sunday when they bought a new color tv. At the time, just before true color, the top third of the screen was a blue tint, the middle yellowish, and the bottom third was green. By the mid 60s many shows were going to color. My father finally gave in and bought one. We joked because Hogab's Heros just switched from B&W to color as that was his favorite show.
@@robbrown4621 As soon as the neighbourhood learned we had a colour tv, they used to drift down, the most requested viewing being I Dream of Genie....
@@TomasFunes-rt8rd Yes, that looked great in color, especially the inside of her bottle. :)
Our first color set was a huge cabinet console deal with a turntable and built in speakers. It only lasted about a week, but I saw Bonanza in color for the first time before the tube blew. I was six, so this was 1959.
My favorite Betty Boop cartoon: Poor Cinderella! Love it and all the rest of the clips! Thank you for uploading and sharing!!
Excellent. Wit, dancing talent, singing talent -- pre-code Hollywood is the best.
Completely charming. Thank You.
The research you put into these is astonishing!
Thanks. I try my best.
@@michiganjfrog They stand the test of time ;)
Crazy to think those movies are the best part of 100 years old now
Amazing that many of these are almost 100 years old and I watched them on classic TV in the 50s and 60s as a kid.
Today's films are more intense than these.
@@55pilot … Good detective work.
"Clutch my pearls...I'm getting the vapors!!!"
Hollywood Party: 3:47 I listened to the rum lyrics three times to be sure of what I heard. OMG. To this day, I never heard anything like that. A big Thanks and Subscribed.
I still can't make out exactly what she said
The last scene was the best . . . "happily ever after".
Love the cocktail shaking at 2:52!
Thanks Kevin.Some great clips of a lost Hollywood art form, mores the pity.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Most of this was two-strip Technicolor; experimental three-strip was used in cartoons and some short subjects. It was quite expensive. The girls look pretty good.
God, I Love this channel...
Thank you!
Loved it Great clip. Aren't the Costuming is so great as well.
These dancers had to be in great shape.
They had great shapes 😂
Almost everyone was in great shape back then. Obesity usually had a medical reason.
Now junk food and laziness are the reasons.
Sorry, but everyone 'wasn't' in great shape. (Did you not notice the overweight men in these clips?) The dancers were fit BECAUSE they were dancers. Dance is exercise
Genuine American art form.
1:20>Normas Shearer, John Gilbert, Lionel Barrymore. 3:15> Good movie w/the wise cracking Glenda Farrell and Fay Wray a year before King Kong. Actually filmed in color.
All of the films in this video were filmed in color. Most, if not all, in 2-strip Technicolor.
@@michiganjfrog wow never knew that
It was amazing what they could do using only red and green. The films with the technicolor inserts had to have the inserts spliced into each reel they sent to the theaters. This was very expensive. So cheaper theaters usually had only a b/w prints of the film and that's the way they were shown on TV. It wouldn't be until the digital age that most of these films could be seen the way they were originally filmed.
i want to watch EVERY Movie you show us
Nice. Besides a lot of female flesh we get both Franklin Pangborn and Robert Woolsey.
Fantastic Thank You
Glad you liked the video. Thanks.
You rarely see 2 color Technicolor. I don't know how these were sourced but I wonder if any of the surviving footage has ever been properly restored to reproduce the actual colours they used back then. Still, in 1929 any colour at all was probably considered amazing.
Thanks for compiling these!
@tim segulin: The King of Jazz has been restored.
That last clip was pretty good!
Betty Boop,"Poor Cinderella," was her only color film I heard.
It's the first and only one from the Fleischer studio and the only time she has red hair.
@@michiganjfrog
Personally I Think Betty Boop Looks Beautiful as a Redhead and a Brunette. And by the way Betty Boop is My All Time Favorite Actress , Cartoon icon & Female Celebrity.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
Great!! So sad the movies were not in color they were so colorful
All of these clips are from pre-Code films and shorts that featured 2-strip Technicolor.
@@michiganjfrog 03:57 Is that George Burns?
That’s Robert Woolsey from the comedy team Wheeler and Woolsey.
Awesome video!!!
Gives new meaning to 'two-strip Technicolor'.
That was fun, and funny!
Glad you liked the video.
And that's why they're called the 'good old days'! 😃👍👍
Buenas películas en color
Great and in color !!!
Thank you!
Thanks for posting! ❤
What fantastic looking women.
Legs to die for, wonderful,
Thanks
Did I see Fatty Arbuckle? Great fun these clips.
I may be the only one who cares, but the music accompanying the dance in The Devil's Cabaret is called "Come Hot It Up With Me" and is uncredited. Pity. it's a hot number!
Beautiful sets!
Very nice video.
Thank you.
Franklin Pangborn played an excellent role in W. C. Fields'..."The Bank Dick"
Not roll, you mean role.
At 3:41 Betty Boop is so CUTE & VOLUPTUOUS at the same time.
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖
She did tarnished innocence long before Norma Jean Whatzername.
A lot of those Betty Boop and early Fleischer cartoons were banned from tv as late as the 1980s and for all I know, still aren't available. Though I would guess that many are available somewhere on the internet and on dvd .
2:02 That's the cleanest print of King of Jazz that I've yet seen. It must have been digitally enhanced.
It was restored by Universal and released on blu-ray by Criterion.
~ 2:05 Chicago hasn’t changed. Lol.
Fantastic job as always. Are all of these early three strip color films (no colorizing)? That was very expensive to film. Interesting choice of films to shoot in it.
Thanks! There is no colorization. They were all filmed in 2-strip color. Dr. X, Whoopee!, King of Jazz, and Mystery of the Wax Museum were features done entirely in 2-strip. The Hollywood Revue of 1929, Hollywood Party, Dixiana and Glorifying the American Girl had some sequences in color.
@@michiganjfrog Thanks for posting these. I hadn't seen most of them.
Hollywood was shooting a lot of films in Technicolor process three (what we think of as Technicolor is process 4 (The Wizard of Oz, GWTW). A movie magazine declared in about 1928 that by 1939 all films would be in color. But that was before the stock market crashed.
It's apparent that post-code UA-cam can't deal with pre-code Hollywood. You could watch these clips with Grandma.
Tommy Tune stole the choreography for the "King of Jazz" clip (1:54) for "The Will Rogers Follies."
Great veto ! I’m glad you have Joan blondell in your profile-she was a bit sexy! 👍👍👍👍❤️❤️
Hey, some of them dames ain't bad!
Oh yeah.
all those beautiful ladies sadly no longer with us 🙁
Scandalous!
From back when movies were actually fun.
I love that old color!
There was a Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movie with naked swimming.
I bet they wore flash colored suits!
well known that some pubic hair was flashed
just think how many people seeing this the first time say, "GRANDMA?! WTF!!😏"
Probably Great-Grandmas by now
Very few would even make the link. They see their grandmother as just some old or elderly woman. Seems younger people don't understand that their grandmothers were young once and probably got up to things they have never thought of.
Pretty tame.
That was whatever is better than awesome!
Loved that.
Those folks would faint or have heart attacks watching TV alone these days, LOL!!!
Your the best
Made my day, thank you.
American standards allow guns but not breasts. ?!?!?
Think of the children. Give your baby a gun, not a breast.
Yes! Land of the "free"!
150 Million Americans with Estimated 500 million guns and 12 trillion rounds of ammunition.
USA Gov is the Largest Arms Dealer in the World yet they want to take our civilian guns away
When women were real, none of the additions/implants no tattoos no piercings, just real natural beauty.
Bloody HazeCode stopped all this for 30 years or more.
such debauchery. I clutch my pearls
Fainting couches and smelling salts, all around!
Heavens to Murgatroid!
Some of the source material isn't too awful. It appears most of this came from ancient one-light 16mm prints. 2-color was limited, but, even then, Technicolor wouldn't have timed people to have green skin.
Of course, as I am sure you know, Franklin Pangbourn and Sidney Toler in the beginning are of special note. Franklin, a gay man playing a fey character, had a long career before open homosexuality was acceptable; and Sidney Toler played Charlie Chan at a time any real Asian actor could not have (tho' he played it with respect).
Those wouldn't even get a second look by censors today. I don't know what the big deal is.
What's gone today is the titillation that excites someone's imagination. In some, if not most, of today's film you see the whole enchilada. So to speak. One doesn't need an imagination.
That was enough to even justify a code?
In the days when they made GREAT movies.
1:54 nice legs
I had to remind myself that these women were from my late grandmother's generation.
They made them better back then!
In color? I must have went color blind the instant I started watching this.
You mean I must have GONE colorblind ( colorblind is one word).
I was never into porn, but the precode sexual videos made me look at the "greatest generation" a bit differently.
You mean to tell me great-grandma was a slapper?? The devil you say!
Oh the humanity!
Amazing, thought sex was invented during the sixties.
Wall to wall carpet was popular then, unlike bare hardwood floors now.
what does "Pre-code" mean?
Before computer programming was invented.
Thank you, but I have since found out that in regards to Hollywood movies it... was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929 and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines in 1934
yes but that is not what it is referring to in this video
3:24 What'd she say? The manners of who?
Yes people were having sex back then how do you think we got here.
note the colorful phrase at about 3:20. :p
I thought this was about how and why the codes managed to control film content.
Silly me!
At around 3:20, the "manners" of a _what?_
There's about another .. half dozen or more that are in Color..,.😊 Just my opinion
I wasn’t aware that hollow-wood actually HAD a code…for ANYTHING.
Or, sure. Why do you think that all of those married couples with children into 1960's TV slept in twin beds?
No Community Guidelines?! God Bless Them!
.....all the women wore the "Bieber" hairstyle
Shake it granny
Yeah... and Elvis was condemned for shakin' his hips.
No tattoos. Real women.
No belly-buttons either.
Amen🙏
OH! How naughty!
I wonder if any of these pre-code films had full-frontal nudity?
Hedy Lamarr in "Ectasy". There's another one, but I can't remember who was in it. A European actress, IIRC.
Although it was made in 1933, Ecstasy was a Czech film that wasn’t distributed in the U. S. until after Code enforcement. In 1935, the film was imported to the U.S. but was seized by U.S. Customs agents. It’s a film that had a long, fascinating history of censorship in the U.S. and elsewhere.
@@michiganjfrog Thanks for the info. :-) I wish the uncut version had turned up somewhere.
@@Bargle5 I'm sure that uncensored copies do exist.
According to an article on the Venice Film Festival in 2019, which screened the restoration of Ecstasy, no elements of the original release were preserved. For their 4K restoration, the Czech Film Archive used other versions and Czech elements from subsequent releases. Contributing to the restoration were the British and Danish Film Institutes, Cinematheque16, Austria’s Film Archive, Gaumont and others. This is likely the closest version to the original release available.
Think of all the great films that could have been made were not for the code.
Think of all the great films that were made anyway.
Pretty tame
1:22. Lionel Barrymore before his accident.
Many women lost jobs because the code as usually happens.
The Hayes code started in 1930 and wasn't really enforced until 1934. Colorizing film actually loses a lot of the definition you see in the original film. This was hardly the more scandalous films that were out there. There are also many films that have been lost due to age and destruction.
@@starwindhawking8997 These clips are not colorized. The films were shot in 2-strip Technicolor. Most have not been restored and the colors have faded. Some, however, like Mystery of the Wax Museum and King of Jazz have been restored and look great. But, again, they are 2-strip and not 3-strip Technicolor. Two-strip didn’t show colors like blue and yellow.
I say, how risqué.
Looks extremely tame, to me! Where's all the supposed nudity?