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Filmed at Paramount's Astoria studio in 1929, and directed by Millard Webb, Glorifying the American Girl tries to mimic a Ziegfeld Production, by gathering talent for some early Talkie musical numbers and comedy bits, and generally succeeds.
Paramount was able to add a couple of two-color Technicolor sequences to boot.
This all comes together nicely courtesy of The UCLA Archive's preservation work, although I would have preferred to see a bit of the left side of the screen cropped before finalizing a video master, as Mr. Soundtrack (you remember him) occasionally makes his presence known.
The quality is extremely pleasing, especially considered that the source element for the major black & white portion of the film, no longer survives.
The two-color appears nicely captured to Eastman Color dupe, and allows an excellent idea of what the original would have looked like.
A problem free Blu-ray from Kino.
Hats off to UCLA for their continuing work toward saving our motion picture heritage.
Only oddity here, is that I'm unable to come up with the rationale behind two of the added extras - the three-strip Technicolor short La Cucharacha, which looks very nice, and reasonably accurate to the original.
The other is a tour of early Hollywood, which is nice, but how does it relate to a film made in Queens, NY?
Image - 3.5
Audio - 4
Pass / Fail - Pass
Recommended
RAH
Paramount was able to add a couple of two-color Technicolor sequences to boot.
This all comes together nicely courtesy of The UCLA Archive's preservation work, although I would have preferred to see a bit of the left side of the screen cropped before finalizing a video master, as Mr. Soundtrack (you remember him) occasionally makes his presence known.
The quality is extremely pleasing, especially considered that the source element for the major black & white portion of the film, no longer survives.
The two-color appears nicely captured to Eastman Color dupe, and allows an excellent idea of what the original would have looked like.
A problem free Blu-ray from Kino.
Hats off to UCLA for their continuing work toward saving our motion picture heritage.
Only oddity here, is that I'm unable to come up with the rationale behind two of the added extras - the three-strip Technicolor short La Cucharacha, which looks very nice, and reasonably accurate to the original.
The other is a tour of early Hollywood, which is nice, but how does it relate to a film made in Queens, NY?
Image - 3.5
Audio - 4
Pass / Fail - Pass
Recommended
RAH
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