 | Discovering Cinema
Buy new: $29.99 An excellent introduction to the development of color cinema (and also of the development of sound cinema).
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 | Treasures From American Film Archives - Encore Edition
Buy new: $69.95 / Used from: $48.00 "The Toll of the Sea" (1922), the first feature shot in two-color Technicolor, is among the treasures in this elaborate collection. Anna May Wong stars.
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 | The Phantom of the Opera - The Ultimate Edition (1925 Original Version and 1929 Restored Version)
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $12.97 Lon Chaney's finest hour. The Bal Masque sequence is in two-color Technicolor, and the remainder of the film uses tinting, toning and hand coloring.
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 | Ben-Hur (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $13.99 This four-disc box set includes the 1925 silent with Ramon Novarro. It holds up quite well compared to the 1959 version. Many scenes are in Technicolor.
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 | The Black Pirate
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $17.99 Douglas Fairbanks stars in this swashbuckling adventure. The color photography has the look of book illustrations that have come to life. The film also features the very beautiful Billie Dove.
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 | The King of Kings - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $23.54 Cecil B. DeMille's elaborate biopic of the life of Christ contains some Technicolor scenes. I'll take this over Mel Gibson's "The Thrashin' of the Christ" any day.
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 | The Broadway Melody (Special Edition)
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $4.73 The second film (and first talkie) to win the Best Picture Oscar. A somewhat odd choice to offer here because the film's Technicolor scenes survive only in black and white.
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 | Dixiana/La Cucaracha
Buy used from: $28.39 2 films: 1) A charming early musical with a 2-color Technicolor Mardis Gras finale featuring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's fabulous tap dancing. 2) The first live-action short in 3-strip Technicolor.
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 | Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies
Buy used from: $47.35 Need some cartoons to go along with the features? These Disney delights, of which most are in color, include "The Three Little Pigs", "The Cookie Carnival", and "The Old Mill".
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 | House of Wax
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.37 "The Mystery of the Wax Museum" (1933) is one of two-color Technicolor's last hurrahs. Fay Wray is menaced by Lionel Atwill. This film is presented on a double bill with its remake, "House of Wax".
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 | Max Fleischer's Color Classics: Somewhere in Dreamland
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $16.19 These color cartoons are from Disney's number-one rival in the field of animation. "Dancing on the Moon" and "The Old Dutch Mill" are two of my favorites.
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 | Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey Mouse in Living Color
Buy used from: $48.00 More cartoons from Disney. Included are some of Mickey's best: "The Band Concert", "Clock Cleaners", and "Alpine Climbers".
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 | The Garden of Allah
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.00 Into the era of three-strip Technicolor features! Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer in a doomed love affair set in the Algerian Desert. Silly story, but gorgeous Technicolor photography.
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 | A Star Is Born
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.99 "Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine." Janet Gaynor and Fredric March star in this first version of the classic Hollywood tale.
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 | Nothing Sacred
Buy used from: $3.62 Zany and lovely Carole Lombard teams with Fredric March in this highly enjoyable scewball comedy. The Lumavision release includes some silent shorts with Lombard.
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 | St. Martin's Lane/Wings of the Morning
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $17.29 Double bill: The first (b & w) features a pre-"Gone With the Wind" Vivian Leigh; the second is the first British film shot entirely in Technicolor. It stars Henry Fonda and Annabella.
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 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney Special Platinum Edition)
Buy used from: $8.19 Disney's first animated feature is still delightful. Film critic Leonard Maltin is right: "Only a real-life Grumpy could fail to love it."
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 | The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $11.74 My all-time favorite film features Errol Flynn at his swashbuckling best. EVERYTHING in this movie is top-notch. The bonus disc contains a documentary about the history of Technicolor.
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![The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513CSOAGuWL._SL75_.jpg) | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) [HD DVD]
Buy used from: $13.93 ... you can also get it in HD!
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 | Drums Along the Mohawk
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $4.92 John Ford's beautiful production of colonial America. Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda star, but it's Edna Mae Oliver who steals the show.
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 | Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $10.85 Kenny Baker stars in this pleasant adaptation of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
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 | The Wizard of Oz (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $17.63 Perhaps the best-loved movie of all time. What can I say about it that hasn't already been said? Get this deluxe three-disc set with all the extra goodies.
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 | The Four Feathers
Buy used from: $39.93 A superb adventure film from producer Alexander Korda. John Clements stars as a man who is branded a coward but proves otherwise. Stunningly photographed on location in Sudan and Egypt.
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 | The Women (Keepcase)
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $6.64 Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford head the all-female cast of this film. Note that only the fashion show sequence is in Technicolor.
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 | The Errol Flynn Signature Collection, Vol. 1 (Captain Blood / The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex / The Sea Hawk / They Died with Their Boots On / Dodge City / The Adventures of Errol Flynn)
Buy new: $45.49 / Used from: $22.49 The screen's greatest swashbuckler in five of his classic films, including the Technicolor gems "Dodge City" and "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex". ("The Sea Hawk" has a sepia sequence.)
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 | Gone with the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition) 1939
Buy used from: $23.46 As with "The Wizard of Oz", I ask: What can I say about this film that hasn't already been said? David O. Selznick's epic stars Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
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 | The Aviator (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $0.01 BONUS FILM: The photography in Martin Scorsese's biopic of Howard Hughes emulates both two- and three-strip Technicolor. Thanks, Marty!
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