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Just curious to the historical cinema context...

posted 15 years ago by BreeInAZ
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Just finished watching this little dated gem on TCM. Was this the first feature film to have both sound and color? The year of its release was 1930, so I am very curious if any film or celluloid historian knows the answer or if there was one other feature that predates this. I know of no other.

Ted in Gilbert, AZ

[–] wmorrow59 15 years ago

Several months before this film was released Wheeler & Woolsey appeared in Rio Rita (1929) with Bebe Daniels, also a talkie with color sequences. But there were a number of other musicals released that year that featured color sequences, including The Hollywood Revue of 1929. There was also an all-color short called The Toy Shop that was released at Christmas in 1928.