Follow Thru / Becky Sharp

November 1, 2015 - 7:00 pm

Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with Universal Pictures with funding provided by the AFI/NEA Preservation Grants Program, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Mary Pickford Foundation.

Follow Thru (1930)

If you've ever wondered what a Broadway musical of the 1920s looked like in its original production, this is the film to see. Follow Thru assembles all of the songs (including "Button Up Your Overcoat") and much of the original cast of its source play about love among golf enthusiasts. Bathed in the warmth of two-color Technicolor, the picture is a unique and delightful time capsule.

35mm, color, 93 min. Production: Paramount Publix Corp. Distribution: Paramount Publix Corp. Producer: Laurence Schwab, Frank Mandel. Director: Laurence Schwab, Lloyd Corrigan. Based on the musical play by Lew Brown, B. G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson, Laurence Schwab. Screenwriter: Laurence Schwab, Lloyd Corrigan. Cinematographer: Henry Gerrard, Charles P. Boyle. Editor: Alyson Shaffer. With: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Zelma O'Neal, Jack Haley, Eugene Pallette.

Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with National Telefilm Associates, Inc., Fondazione Scuola Nazionale di Cinema—Cineteca Nazionale (Rome), and the British Film Institute with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Becky Sharp (1935)

The first feature photographed entirely in three-strip Technicolor, Becky Sharp represented a technological landmark in film history, and later, a greatly heralded restoration by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Chronicling the rise and fall of social-climbing Becky (Oscar-nominated Miriam Hopkins) in 19th-century Europe, the film took full advantage of expressive color, imbuing ballrooms and bedrooms (and glorious close-ups) with new life.

35mm, color, 85 min. Production: Pioneer Pictures, Inc. Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Producer: Kenneth Macgowan. Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Based on the novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Screenwriter: Francis Edwards Faragoh. Cinematographer: Ray Rennahan. Production Design: Robert Edmond Jones. Editor: Archie F. Marshek. Composer: Roy Webb. With: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Alison Skipworth.

Preceded by

Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Vitaphone Project.

Roy Smeck, "The Wizard of the String" in "His Pastimes" (1926)

Vitaphone #302

This Vitaphone short presents popular solo tunes on Hawaiian guitar and ukulele.

35mm, b/w, 8 min. Production: Vitaphone Corporation. Distribution: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. With: Roy Smeck.

Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Vitaphone Project.

The Ingenues: "The Band Beautiful" (1928)

Vitaphone #2573

An all-female band presents a rousing jazz medley, on the Vitaphone.

35mm, b/w, 9 min. Production: Vitaphone Corporation. Distribution: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. With: The Ingenues.

Part of:

Archive Treasures: 50th Anniversary Celebration

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