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THE SHORT SUBJECT 301
These early products also included comedies such as The Treasurer's Report, in which Robert Benchley appeared, and others featuring Clark and McCullough. In the production of comedies with sound, producers are getting away from slapstick. Many of their creations are sketches, or one-act playlets, of a type that occasionally has been seen in vaudeville. With the advantages that are acquired through the medium of the screen, such comedies, when well produced, are decidedly entertaining to motion picture audiences.
To Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer goes the credit for producing the first sound picture with natural colour. The title was Gus Edwards' Color-Tone Revue, and the film was first shown at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles. The sound was recorded by means of Movietone, and the colour was photographed by the Technicolor method. The successful standard attained gave indication of the possibilities in the use of colour photography combined with sound; so that great progress may be expected in this connection, too. With the wider use of colour photography the entertaining value of such short subjects will be enhanced, and performers and artists will appear with practically total realism, as they do in the flesh.
In introducing its first talking photoplay Interference, the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation produced a short subject with Eddie Cantor, in which the star spoke a monologue in comedy vein, referring to the picture Interference. The result was a pleasing unit of the programme and indicated future possibilities of the blending of a short subject with the feature.
The Christie Film Company sounded a new note indicating the possibilities of sound with comedy production in their first offerings When Caesar Ran a Newspaper and The Melancholy Dame. They have since produced a number of these, the first of which was A Bird in the Hand, featur