Fritz Feld, best remembered for his long string of mouth-popping second bananas gets top billing as the self-important film director, Mr. Nitvich, in this Warner Brothers Technicolor short subject.
Like other Warner Brothers Technicolor shorts of the 1930s, it's a hodge-podge with a lot of mugging, a couple of songs and Charley Foy and Tom Kennedy as second and third bananas. It's also pleasant to note the silly, bright colors. It seems that no one was listening to Natalie Kalmus, the ex-wife of the founder of Technicolor. She was color consultants on a lot of films and was well known for wearing ridiculously colored hats and urging the use of subdued, naturalistic colors. By the middle of the next decade, she would be shipped off to Great Britain, where her advice would be ignored by Pressburger and Powell.
Like other Warner Brothers Technicolor shorts of the 1930s, it's a hodge-podge with a lot of mugging, a couple of songs and Charley Foy and Tom Kennedy as second and third bananas. It's also pleasant to note the silly, bright colors. It seems that no one was listening to Natalie Kalmus, the ex-wife of the founder of Technicolor. She was color consultants on a lot of films and was well known for wearing ridiculously colored hats and urging the use of subdued, naturalistic colors. By the middle of the next decade, she would be shipped off to Great Britain, where her advice would be ignored by Pressburger and Powell.
