"Sixty Glorious Years," which is announced for early showing at the Cathay Theatre, can claim with justification to be the first full length historical film to be made in colour.
The film also proves—as perhaps no other has done—the necessity for colour in certain subjects and as such is as much a milestone in screen history as was the introduction of sound in "The Singing Fool" To a subject which has been kept close to real events—and in their real settings—colour adds just that finishing touch of actuality. "Old timers" may still remember the first topical. picture to be shot in colour—"The Delhi Durbar," which was made by the new obsolete Kinemacolour process.
It is colour, for instance, that gives the thrilling sense of intimacy one feels on seeing the beautiful grounds of Balmoral, with the Castle and the Highland hills in the background in their natural hues, or a domestic scene between the Queen and the Prince Consort, played in a completely accurate production of the draw ing room at Windsor Castle.
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