Talk:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (film)

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Contents 1 Previous versions 2 Technicolor 3 Silent Film 4 Images 5 Copyright?

[edit] Previous versions

This article is primarily about the musical starring Marilyn Monroe, so the inclusion of all the previous versions of this film seemed out of place. Ideally each of these previous versions should have its own entry. Until then I have created a subsection so that the article flows better. CClio333 19:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Technicolor

This movie examplifies the use of the Technicolor process in the 20s and the 30s, especially in the cabaret scene with marilyn dressed in pink, but is it wikiworth ? Can anyone provide more info about color effects in this movie ?

Thanks. King mike 05:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Silent Film

"The silent movie was released in 1928, starring Ruth Taylor, Alice White, Ford Sterling, Holmes Herbert and Mack Swain, and Loos also wrote the subtitles."

Was the film subtitled, or intertitled, like most silent films? --68.41.122.213 19:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

It looks like the copyright to this film was never renewed, so it'd be good to decorate the article with some images, as appropriate. ShadowHalo 18:57, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright?

This film is listed (in the article) as being in the public domain, but I can't find any evidence that it is. It appears that the *soundtrack* may be. Does anyone have a reliable source for the claim that the movie is? 69.108.204.228 (talk) 03:30, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I (same author as above, IP may vary) spent an hour or so looking into the copyright status, and found sites like imdb listing it as copyright 1953 by 20th Century Fox. I checked Amazon, and could find no DVD or VHS tape of it, new or used, which was not made by Fox.

What seems to have happened is that the soundtrack from the Broadway play, released by Columbia Records, went into the public domain, and someone garbled that. The only page which I could find that claimed the movie was PD and cited any authority, cited us. They also cited imdb, which contradicts us. http://www.publicdomainmotionpictures.com/content/view/111/26/

With that in mind, I'm yanking the public domain category tag. If anyone can find any sort of authority for the statement, I'd be delighted to be reverted. I'd love to download a copy, if I thought I could do so legally. 69.110.235.152 (talk) 07:05, 12 March 2008 (UTC)