I've seen very little pre-1934 stuff, so I'm mostly ignorant of what filmmakers got away with before the Code. Sounds entertaining, though.
When you think about it, though, as silly as it was, that stuff of the dancers on the plane wings was pretty high-tech special effects for the time.
True. Too bad it was so tangential to the plot--and so ridiculous--though. :)
(I also noticed that the director used every single possible transition from frame to frame in this film--whirling around, wipes, boxes, pinholes widening, etc. etc. I guess they had just invented most of them and he was determined to use each and every one of them as many times as possible. Hee!)
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Date: 2009-12-02 06:01 pm (UTC)When you think about it, though, as silly as it was, that stuff of the dancers on the plane wings was pretty high-tech special effects for the time.
True. Too bad it was so tangential to the plot--and so ridiculous--though. :)
(I also noticed that the director used every single possible transition from frame to frame in this film--whirling around, wipes, boxes, pinholes widening, etc. etc. I guess they had just invented most of them and he was determined to use each and every one of them as many times as possible. Hee!)