La Cucaracha (short film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | La Cucaracha |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1934 |
| length | 21 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lloyd Corrigan |
| script | Lloyd Corrigan Carly Wharton John Twist Jack Wagner |
| production |
Kenneth Macgowan for Pioneer Pictures Corporation |
| camera | Ray Rennahan |
| cut | Archie Marshek |
| occupation | |
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La Cucaracha is an American musical short film by Lloyd Corrigan from 1934. It is considered to be the first feature film in film history to be realized entirely using the Technicolor 3-color system .
action
Singer Chaquita and dancer Pancho are lovers. Both work in the small Café Contante in El Oso. One day, theater owner Señor Martinez from Mexico City comes to the town because he has heard of Pancho's dance skills and wants to hire him. Chaquita wants to prevent her lover from leaving and tries to annoy Señor Martinez so much that he leaves before Pancho can dance for him. Chaquita's plan goes wrong and Pancho reacts indignantly. He refuses to take Chaquita with him to Mexico City in the event of an engagement, since she is just a Cucaracha who has crept into his life. Chaquita now angrily joins the song La Cucaracha and later interrupts Pancho's dance in front of Señor Martinez with the title. Pancho furiously threatens to kill Chaquita backstage, but the forced joint appearance of Chaquita and Pancho convinced Señor Martinez so much that he hires both of them to his theater.
production
In May 1933, Jock Whitney and his cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney founded the production company Pioneer Pictures, which had the production of color films as a goal. The first short film produced by Pioneer Films was La Cucaracha , which was the first feature film to use Technicolor's 3-color system. Walt Disney had previously tested the 3-color system in the cartoon Of Flowers and Trees .
Due to the complex coloring, the short film cost around 50,000 dollars, more than four times the normal short films of the time. La Cucaracha was released in theaters on August 30, 1935 with John Cromwell's The Fountain . He couldn't bring in the film costs at the box office.
criticism
Critics called the film a "breathtaking display of the three-color Technicolor system".
Awards
La Cucaracha received an Oscar in 1935 in the category " Best Short Film - Comedy ".
Web links
- La Cucaracha on YouTube (English)
- La Cucaracha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See imdb.com
- ^ Gert Koshofer: Color: the colors of the film . Spiess, 1988, p. 63.
- ^ John Reid: Films Famous, Fanciful, Frolicsome & Fantastic . Lulu.com , 2006, pp. 86-87.
- ^ "A stunning illustration of the three-color process" Cf. Susan Ohmer: George Gallup in Hollywood . Columbia University Press, 2006, p. 87.