Vintage Movie Resources
Rouben Mamoulian — What Do You Think of Color? (1935) 🇺🇸
Movie director Rouben Mamoulian, director of Becky Sharp, the first major picture using Technicolor’s new color process, writes about the use of colours in movies.
Leo McCarey — He Directs for Laughs — and Gets ‘Em (1935) 🇺🇸
Leo McCarey, the rollicking, young Irishman who directed “Ruggles of Red Gap,” is described by Charles Laughton as “not only a great director, but the greatest comic mind now living.”
Four Directors Tell What’s Wrong with the Movies (1933) 🇺🇸
Why aren’t there more movie hits ? That’s what Hollywood is asking. And Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Borzage, Cecil B. DeMille and Mervyn Le Roy — all makers of hits — are here to tell why. Listen in and hear some frank talk!
Irving Pichel — Rebel! (1932) 🇺🇸
Irving Pichel, actor, director and author, turns his back on success in one profession to win in another.
They’re Capra-Crazy (1941) 🇺🇸
To Hollywood, Frank Capra represents the ultimate in directorial achievement, and there isn’t a player out there who wouldn’t be happy to work under his guiding genius.
Ernst Lubitsch — First Wit of the Films! (1935) 🇺🇸
Ernst Lubitsch is more colorful than the stars he directs! Vintage ads by Genevieve Tobin and Cary Grant (“Cheramy — It's the perfume I never can forget.”)
Interview with Movie Director William A. Wellman (1936) 🇬🇧
Movie director William A. Wellman muses about what makes an actor a movie star