the trail of the lonesome pine film location

The trail of the lonesome pine film location series#

In place of the vivid reds and scarlets, the brilliant purples and dazzling greens and yellows of 'Becky,' it employs sober browns and blacks and deep greens.

It accepts the spectrum as a complementary attribute of the picture, not its raison d'être. Paradoxically, it improves the case for color by lessening its importance.

The trail of the lonesome pine film location series#

It sought to imprison the rainbow in a series of carefully planned canvases that were radiantly startling, visually magnificent, attuned carefully to the mood of the picture and to the changing tempo of its action.The new picture attempts none of this. 'Becky Sharp' employed color as a stylistic accentuation of dramatic effect. It means that we can doubt no longer the inevitability of the color film or scoff at those who believe that black-and-white photography is tottering on the brink of that limbo of forgotten things which already has swallowed the silent picture.Chromatically, 'Trail of the Lonesome Pine' is far less impressive than its pioneer in the field. It means that color need not shackle the cinema, but may give it fuller expression. Color has traveled far since first it exploded on the screen last June in 'Becky Sharp.' Demonstrating increased mastery of the new element, Walter Wanger's producing unit proves in 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,' which opened yesterday at the Paramount, that Technicolor is not restricted to a studio's stages, but can record quite handsomely the rich, natural coloring of the outside world and whatever dramatic action may be encountered in it.The significance of this achievement is not to be minimized.