The Lady of Victories

The Lady of Victories is a 1928 MGM silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

The Lady of Victories
Directed byR. William Neill
Written byRussell Hickson
Produced byHerbert T. Kalmus
StarringAgnes Ayres
George Irving
Otto Matieson
CinematographyGeorge Cave
Edited byAubrey Scotto
Production
companies
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
January 21, 1928
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent, English Intertitles
Budget$23,169.28[1]

Production

The film began production at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood on November 21, 1927, and wrapped on November 26.[2][3] It was the first of the "Great Events" shorts to credit Andre Chotin art director.[4] The production featured some of experimental nighttime exterior scenes, a risky artistic and technical undertaking at the time, because of the amount of light needed for proper exposure on Technicolor's film stock.[5]

Release

The film accompanied the Charlie Chaplin silent feature The Circus (1928 film) in many theaters during its initial release.[6]

Preservation Status

The Lady of Victories has been partially preserved, with 1,000 foot fragments preserved by EYE Film Institute, the George Eastman House, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[7]

References
  1. Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 329.
  2. Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.
  3. Layton and Pierce 329
  4. Slide 38
  5. Layton and Pierce 189
  6. Layton and Pierce 192
  7. Layton and Pierce 329
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.