On with the Show

Alan Crosland, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1929. Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, and Joe E. Brown in the leads. Filmed in two-color Technicolor, the film became the first all-talking, all-color feature-length film, and the second color film released by Warner Bros.; the first was the partly color musical The Desert Song (1929). On January 1, 2025, the film's copyright expired, resulting in the film entering the public domain. US 1929/30 title; renewal not checked title-by-title. About 104 minutes; Wikimedia Commons print.