She's been dead for more than half a century now and this looks like it was shot yesterday. Some actors surpass their era and their medium and she's definetly one of them. What a presence, what a charisma!
You can tell all that from a silent film of a lady feeding a fish to a pelican. . You are well ahead of your time. Frankly, I thought the pelican gave a stronger performance as did the piano player.
@@HiTechOilCo They said it just fine. "Actor" is a gender-neutral term. In this context, he used the word "actors" to refer to both men and women performers.
This apparently is about all that survives of this film. A great loss to cinema that so many of her silent films were not preserved. No actress was ever cuter or more expressive.
One can only hope. Even today some of these lost films are being found and sometimes in surprisingly good condition. What's appalling is that the studios themselves chose not to archive them, presuming them not works of art but just something whose money-making potential had been exhausted and therefore now garbage to be thrown out.
Sad that so many of the films of the silent era are lost. They were usually destroyed by the studios themselves just a few years after they were made. Once a film was no longer considered to be a revenue generator, it was not kept around. It was like a department store getting rid of last year's clothing inventory so they can focus on selling this year's fashions. Many of the films that did survive made it only because the people in charge of destroying them secretly kept them instead.
While you are absolutely correct about a large number of 'missing' films, it also needs to be mentioned that before 1950 all motion pictures were made on nitrate stock which was extremely flammable to the degree that it can literally burn underwater and, if the films hadn't been transferred, often would degenerate into a gooey mess over time! Yet, despite the odds of deliberate destruction and volatile stock, there HAVE been films from that era that somehow survived and have been rediscovered in recent years still intact- and maybe somewhere there's more footage of this early color movie that could be found and restored!
actually there was two two main reasons to destroy old acetate film, storage is expensive, and fim studios are money makers. Theres another big issue, acetate is self destroying and worst, is highly flamable, which made those storage facilities dangerous.
This reinforces how wonderful she was in her natural acting she didn’t overdo it she acted very naturally which was so different from many of her counterparts of that era
I agree. Clara Bow's acting was remarkably natural and realistic. She stood out from her contemporaries. In an interview that can be seen on You Tube, Louise Brooks spoke highly of Clara Bow and I think she did also in the autobiographical book "Lulu in Hollywood".
Oh, she's gorgeous- color or not. I love her so dearly- and I thank you numerously for sharing this smidget of a film. It could have even been 5 seconds of her lovely smile and I would be happy.
I think she did maybe 57 films (I know that most were, by today's standards considered "independent"), and ended up in a quiet little small suburban house in CA. She was a spark, a comet, a flash of gold to so many. A women that many men wanted, and so many women wanted to be! Love her.
In my opinion, when the talking and singing parts of "The Jazz Singer" was filmed in July 1927, everything worth filming should have been filmed in color and sound.
Red and green Technicolor. Looks like the 2-strip cemented process, which practically meant one-light (rather than timed shot-by-shot) prints. It was inferior, but had it's pleasing aspects. Clara Bow looks good.
There is a similarity between Betty Boop & Clara Bow. Animator Grim Natwick design Bimbo the dog's love interest based on singer Helen Kane. Some of Betty Boop's Looks is based on actress on Clara Bow .
@@davidbrandel4128 really? I hope you're not interested in ancient or medieval literature of any kind, if the loss of a few reels of film from the beginning of the last century make you sick.
@@tinanoniwalsh4343 99% of ancient poetry, philosophy, history, plays, myths, etc... is lost forever. you are talking about a few drunks and exotic dancers making faces and waving their arms in front of a camera. I'm sorry, I can't explain the difference, it's too much. get your own brain.
@@TheConorsmithusa haha.you should watch the movement of the lips very well and watch silent film more often...then you get better at it hope this helps
Yes, mine is You want a fish, huh? Try it? No? you don’t want? Okay. Yeah, you want it. (I am not getting this part, need to ask my friends.) Catch! Go on! haha!
Remember that in 1928 this would likely have been shot on 2 colour Technicolor, using red and cyan-green colour filters. If you look at the top left of the frame you can see both colours coming slightly out of alignment. The colour will not be terribly accurate, although compared to black and white it would have been considered 'pleasing'.
Very pleasing, you wouldn't understand that they dressed just like what people saw leaving the theatre, the scenes are all average life at the time with added dramatics or story. This is what they saw leaving the theatre outside. The movies are just the same as real life with added dramatics and story. People saw color so it wasn't insane to watch a black and white movie without any color. This is still color, cyan green and red filtering was not fake color, it is correctly representing every shade though with a focal point of green cycan and omni red.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Two colour Technicolor was not true colour. Kalmus, Comstock and the others at Technicolor knew it was a milestone on the way to the real thing. However it was some sort of colour and that made it stand out against the regular black and white offerings of the time. Its imperfections had to be carefully managed with wardrobe, set and makeup testing. Some colours would deviate so much from the original that they could not be used. The first 3 colour Technicolor films were Disney cartoons shot with rostrum cameras modified to she RGB sequential triplets. The first 3 colour Technicolor feature film was "Becky Sharp" (1935), ruclips.net/video/B0rY25U-zMU/видео.html If you are interested in the history of Technicolor, you might check out the magnificent "The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935", by Bruce Barnes, James Layton, David Pierce et. al., published by George Eastman House (2015), ISBN 978-0935398281. Amazon.ca has a used copy for $CAD 439.
Clara Bow was a sensation, but like so many actors/actresses of the silent era, she became a 'has been' of a rapidly changing times, sound, the depression, the motion picture studios changes, n so on......her personal life was also unfortunate.....it's very sad what happened to so many of the silent screen stars once sound arrived along with the depression....all very bad timing.......
Technicolor Type II, 2-color generally did a pretty bad job rendering the sky any sort of blue color and turquoise is usually what one ended up with. However, there was a way to trick the eye into thinking it was seeing the sort of blue we see in this clip. I cannot remember the details, so my apologies. This is a wonderful clip.
Interesting. Shot in 2-strip Technicolor (3-strip would first be used 4 years later in 1932). Too bad, Clara Bow is definitely forgotten today,. She had a natural acting ability.
Thank you ever so much for providing the name of that song! I've loved that melody since I was a little kid (now 58). Never knew it's name until you so kindly provided it!
Bill Burns my pleasure. I know how frustrating it is when people post videos but don’t credit the music. For years I tried to find out what this tune was. ruclips.net/video/Da_6P7LNdjA/видео.html
1928 was basically the Year of Clara Bow, when she was the hottest-ticket star on the screen, so it’s especially sad that all of her films from that year are lost.
Clara bow was a early jazz age star 1920-1925 more so than a late 1920s sensation. Her hair is also reminsicent of the 1922-1924 time period, whereas another silent actress would have a bob cut most certainly. Beautiful star but more early 1920s than late 1920s.
Clarabow was a legend of the silent screen+an icon like Mary pickford lillian guish exetra,they fought for rights to produce and direct films + they won ,thanks to them there are female producers continuing there legacy,📹🎬🐦💙👏👏🌟🌟📹🎬
@@bobwallace9814 I had a wool swimsuit in the 60s. When it got wet it stretched and was very heavy. It was given to my mother to give to me. Only wore it once.
Shot in process 3 "two strip" technicolor. Notice the green fringing at the left of the frame and red at the right. The ability to render blue was somewhat improved over process 1 and 2. Compare the color here to The Toll of the Seas (1922). But the red-green systems could never fully render the darker blues or violets, and could not give neutral whites and true blacks. Replaced by full color technicolor in 1931.
She really didn't deserve all the abuse and hate 😢 It must have been so awful for her to segregate herself from her family right up to her tragic death. Them poor kids and Poor carla 😞
Lololol too funny, was just thinking abt Ms Parker earlier today and now I find ur comment 😂 And it sounds like Ms Parker may have actually liked Clara, based on the mildness of the comment.
*I remember them saying in one of the documentaries about her, that they initially rejected her because she was too short and too fat. Wft? She was as cute as a button, and very far from fat. No wonder women have bad views about their bodies. We women are like varied types of chocolate: different but just as sweet. I myself am only 5'1 with an hourglass figure. I have NO intention of being skinny and looking like a boy at my height. If someone doesn't like the way I look, they can point their eyeballs elsewhere lol*
She's just left her earth body. I am sure such a dear person is with Jesus. She suffered a painful life and was, like in this film short, an innocent soul. Compare her to the plastic young women of today.
Her facial expressions are very "modern" as odd as that sounds. I feel like I'm watching what a 20 something year old woman would act like today, not in the 1920s, when I watch her
She's been dead for more than half a century now and this looks like it was shot yesterday. Some actors surpass their era and their medium and she's definetly one of them. What a presence, what a charisma!
*Actress.
Absurd comment.
*Actor.
You can tell all that from a silent film of a lady feeding a fish to a pelican. . You are well ahead of your time. Frankly, I thought the pelican gave a stronger performance as did the piano player.
@@HiTechOilCo They said it just fine. "Actor" is a gender-neutral term. In this context, he used the word "actors" to refer to both men and women performers.
This apparently is about all that survives of this film. A great loss to cinema that so many of her silent films were not preserved. No actress was ever cuter or more expressive.
William Perry: If there is ever a time machine made... It'd be my first priority to get them films...
all the stuff is stashed in some basement waiting to be discovered.....
carol tenge: And hopefully in good condition.
bxktdv: Oh no you don't! She needs no kisses or hugs.
One can only hope. Even today some of these lost films are being found and sometimes in surprisingly good condition. What's appalling is that the studios themselves chose not to archive them, presuming them not works of art but just something whose money-making potential had been exhausted and therefore now garbage to be thrown out.
Sad that so many of the films of the silent era are lost. They were usually destroyed by the studios themselves just a few years after they were made. Once a film was no longer considered to be a revenue generator, it was not kept around. It was like a department store getting rid of last year's clothing inventory so they can focus on selling this year's fashions. Many of the films that did survive made it only because the people in charge of destroying them secretly kept them instead.
While you are absolutely correct about a large number of 'missing' films, it also needs to be mentioned that before 1950 all motion pictures were made on nitrate stock which was extremely flammable to the degree that it can literally burn underwater and, if the films hadn't been transferred, often would degenerate into a gooey mess over time!
Yet, despite the odds of deliberate destruction and volatile stock, there HAVE been films from that era that somehow survived and have been rediscovered in recent years still intact- and maybe somewhere there's more footage of this early color movie that could be found and restored!
actually there was two two main reasons to destroy old acetate film, storage is expensive, and fim studios are money makers. Theres another big issue, acetate is self destroying and worst, is highly flamable, which made those storage facilities dangerous.
This reinforces how wonderful she was in her natural acting she didn’t overdo it she acted very naturally which was so different from many of her counterparts of that era
I agree. Clara Bow's acting was remarkably natural and realistic. She stood out from her contemporaries. In an interview that can be seen on You Tube, Louise Brooks spoke highly of Clara Bow and I think she did also in the autobiographical book "Lulu in Hollywood".
@@andrewbrendan1579 so many overact even today so its relieving
Even with the primitive color process, Clara just looks gorgeous! She really had charisma!
Clara became a muse of mine when I was just a teenager. I was entranced by her and her lovely “sad” down turned eye shape allowed me to love my own 💖
I wonder if Betty Boop was based on her. Certainly a resemblance there.
@@PungiFungino Betty Boop was based on a real biracial woman. But I totally see the resemblance.
@@timhensley3695actually, betty boop WAS based on clara bow, and helen kane.
@@Gacyy yeah, the more I'm on the net the more misinformation I consume. Probably better to just read a book. My bad.
Wow, what a cutie Clara was! Such a beautiful young lady. Thank Heaven that, at least, we do have this short bit of two-strip technicolor film of her.
BCashion1962 thank you for knowing what type of Technicolor this is😉
Cute indeed! Absolutely adorable and captivating! 😁
@@UNOwen1 ;-)
She was adorable. It's easy to see why she was such a sensation.
Oh, she's gorgeous- color or not. I love her so dearly- and I thank you numerously for sharing this smidget of a film. It could have even been 5 seconds of her lovely smile and I would be happy.
She was one of a kind even nearly a century later.
She was indeed very beautiful.
What a beautiful smile she had.
I am curious as to how one would thank someone “numerously”. 🤔
I think she did maybe 57 films (I know that most were, by today's standards considered "independent"), and ended up in a quiet little small suburban house in CA. She was a spark, a comet, a flash of gold to so many. A women that many men wanted, and so many women wanted to be! Love her.
This rare, silent color film shows that, even though nearly 100 years have passed,
those days were not as different as we may have thought!
In my opinion, when the talking and singing parts of "The Jazz Singer" was filmed in July 1927, everything worth filming should have been filmed in color and sound.
Beautiful Woman with Dreams Eyes and Faces expressions, I love it, She's simply and true. Awesome and Amazing. Great Artist! 🙂 RIP Clara Bow
Clara Bow looked like a doll! ❤
Wow! The quality is impeccable considering its 1928. We can't even get a clear picture of Big Foot in 2021!
It's difficult to get a clear picture of something that doesn't exist.
Gosh, Clara was as cute as a button! Her eyes and smile and a seemingly gorgeous complexion. A good little actress, too! 😍
I knew somebody who knew her. He spoke glowingly of her generosity, kindness and love of life.
So beautiful. Sad many of her films never survived.
When the film cuts from Clara's enticements to the pelican, I enjoyed my first hearty laugh of the day!
Red and green Technicolor. Looks like the 2-strip cemented process, which practically meant one-light (rather than timed shot-by-shot) prints. It was inferior, but had it's pleasing aspects. Clara Bow looks good.
She was a nice looking woman of her time. Sweet Carla bow rip ❤
She was in part responsible for inspiring the character Betty Boop!
She's a nice looking women of anytime.
This clip is such a treasure, to be able to see her incredible hair in color. I’m forever smitten with ms bow.
She was the inspiration for the cartoon character Betty Boop.... what a cutie she was.
There is a similarity between Betty Boop & Clara Bow. Animator Grim Natwick design Bimbo the dog's love interest based on singer Helen Kane. Some of Betty Boop's Looks is based on actress on Clara Bow .
Thanks for showing surviving color footage of the IT Girl, Clara Bow. This is a gem.
Reminds me so much of Marilyn Monroe that mega watt smile
@@auletjohnast03638 Incel alert.
It's a shame it was lost. It feels like a very witty comedy.
It just makes me sick to think of all the films we lost.
Yes...😑☹😢
@@davidbrandel4128 really? I hope you're not interested in ancient or medieval literature of any kind, if the loss of a few reels of film from the beginning of the last century make you sick.
@@winstonsmith937 95% of all films from the 30s and earlier are now completely missing. He has a perfect reason.
@@tinanoniwalsh4343 99% of ancient poetry, philosophy, history, plays, myths, etc... is lost forever. you are talking about a few drunks and exotic dancers making faces and waving their arms in front of a camera. I'm sorry, I can't explain the difference, it's too much. get your own brain.
She's adorable
I just learned of her though knowing her face and I’m so in love. She was amazing !!
I'm just discovering her now and I'm captivated. She is so cute and I love her energy and spirit 😁👍
Wow what a beauty Clara was. So sad to think that she's gone for such a long time now.
0:18 "Do you want a fish? Huh? It's good." 0:30 "No? You don't want it? Oh, yes. Come on, come on." Anyone else got lip readings? lol.
Thx for that. I was wondering what she said. I'm a shit lip reader
@@TheConorsmithusa haha.you should watch the movement of the lips very well and watch silent film more often...then you get better at it hope this helps
Yes, mine is
You want a fish, huh? Try it? No? you don’t want? Okay. Yeah, you want it.
(I am not getting this part, need to ask my friends.)
Catch! Go on!
haha!
Remember that in 1928 this would likely have been shot on 2 colour Technicolor, using red and cyan-green colour filters. If you look at the top left of the frame you can see both colours coming slightly out of alignment. The colour will not be terribly accurate, although compared to black and white it would have been considered 'pleasing'.
Very pleasing, you wouldn't understand that they dressed just like what people saw leaving the theatre, the scenes are all average life at the time with added dramatics or story. This is what they saw leaving the theatre outside. The movies are just the same as real life with added dramatics and story. People saw color so it wasn't insane to watch a black and white movie without any color. This is still color, cyan green and red filtering was not fake color, it is correctly representing every shade though with a focal point of green cycan and omni red.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar
Two colour Technicolor was not true colour.
Kalmus, Comstock and the others at Technicolor knew it was a milestone on the way to the real thing. However it was some sort of colour and that made it stand out against the regular black and white offerings of the time. Its imperfections had to be carefully managed with wardrobe, set and makeup testing. Some colours would deviate so much from the original that they could not be used.
The first 3 colour Technicolor films were Disney cartoons shot with rostrum cameras modified to she RGB sequential triplets.
The first 3 colour Technicolor feature film was "Becky Sharp" (1935), ruclips.net/video/B0rY25U-zMU/видео.html
If you are interested in the history of Technicolor, you might check out the magnificent "The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935", by Bruce Barnes, James Layton, David Pierce et. al., published by George Eastman House (2015), ISBN 978-0935398281. Amazon.ca has a used copy for $CAD 439.
That a beautiful smile. Can't wait to meet her on the other side. God bless America 🇺🇸
Surviving color footage of the super talented and always lovely Clara Bow? Yes, I'm seriously impressed and thank you for the share.
Thank you.😊
Clara bow is so cute, I love her red hair.
Beautiful. Not only the color but also Clara Bow.
Women of that Era are 100 times more attractive to me than women today.
Reminds me a bit of Bernadette Peters. Lovely lady had a sad story may she RIP
She was definitely a peak in cinema.
So beautiful!! She was such a gorgeous redhead!❤️❤️❤️
Many of Clara's silents are lost but a good many of her sound films exist but sadly have never been releaed commercially or been aired on TCM.
Is she the cutest thing ever or what?! 😍 I'm so falling for Clara the more I discover her!
I love Clara...what a doll!
Love and respect to the great clara jimi❤❤❤❤❤
a real beauty of her time. so effortlessly too.
Clara Bow was a sensation, but like so many actors/actresses of the silent era, she became a 'has been' of a rapidly changing times, sound, the depression, the motion picture studios changes, n so on......her personal life was also unfortunate.....it's very sad what happened to so many of the silent screen stars once sound arrived along with the depression....all very bad timing.......
This is the 2-colour process Technicolor. Ms Bow (and that hair) look terrific.
I have her guest appearance on the radio show Truth or Consequences. What a talent.
Wow, what a treasure! This was so cute, as was Clara!😍 Thankyou!😊
Technicolor Type II, 2-color generally did a pretty bad job rendering the sky any sort of blue color and turquoise is usually what one ended up with. However, there was a way to trick the eye into thinking it was seeing the sort of blue we see in this clip. I cannot remember the details, so my apologies. This is a wonderful clip.
One of the most gorgeous ladies in Hollywood ever. The "It"' girl x 100.
This is remarkable. The woman that was the screenwriter of the Red Hair movie lived to be 111.
What... really?? Cool!
It's only two-strip Technicolor, but it's more than enough. She had "it", and a whole lot more.
Interesting. Shot in 2-strip Technicolor (3-strip would first be used 4 years later in 1932). Too bad, Clara Bow is definitely forgotten today,. She had a natural acting ability.
How i love her
This is a real "gem" and I thank you for sharing!
She was adorable. So much charisma.
Thank you ever so much for providing the name of that song! I've loved that melody since I was a little kid (now 58). Never knew it's name until you so kindly provided it!
Bill Burns my pleasure. I know how frustrating it is when people post videos but don’t credit the music. For years I tried to find out what this tune was.
ruclips.net/video/Da_6P7LNdjA/видео.html
she was so luminous.
1928 was basically the Year of Clara Bow, when she was the hottest-ticket star on the screen, so it’s especially sad that all of her films from that year are lost.
Clara bow was a early jazz age star 1920-1925 more so than a late 1920s sensation. Her hair is also reminsicent of the 1922-1924 time period, whereas another silent actress would have a bob cut most certainly. Beautiful star but more early 1920s than late 1920s.
Very engaging and cute, no wonder they said she had it. Behind that smile was a hurt lost little girl poor thing.
Clarabow was a legend of the silent screen+an icon like Mary pickford lillian guish exetra,they fought for rights to produce and direct films + they won ,thanks to them there are female producers continuing there legacy,📹🎬🐦💙👏👏🌟🌟📹🎬
Fought
@@gemoftheocean thanks 👍,god bless,stay safe,💙🐦🌈👋
That pelican is now immortal.
Thank you
How cute! Thank you for sharing this. It's precious.
How lovely!. Thanks for posting this.
Wonderful short film, Clara Bow is a delight ☺
What a microscopic swimsuit! Indecent! Gorgeous! Lovely!
What most don't know is those suits were unconstructed cotton or wool blend. Another words when they got wet, they were a wet t-shirt.
@@bobwallace9814 I had a wool swimsuit in the 60s. When it got wet it stretched and was very heavy. It was given to my mother to give to me. Only wore it once.
Dude stop staring at her naked ankles!! Perv.
How cute she was, what a loss that so many films were allowed to ruin.
Shot in process 3 "two strip" technicolor. Notice the green fringing at the left of the frame and red at the right. The ability to render blue was somewhat improved over process 1 and 2. Compare the color here to The Toll of the Seas (1922). But the red-green systems could never fully render the darker blues or violets, and could not give neutral whites and true blacks. Replaced by full color technicolor in 1931.
Very interesting. Thank you.
There have been thousands of reels, decomposing in storage, since the get-go, so sad.....Laurel & Hardy, had some gems disappear......
That was incredibly cute. I love the silent films.
She really didn't deserve all the abuse and hate 😢
It must have been so awful for her to segregate herself from her family right up to her tragic death. Them poor kids and Poor carla 😞
Oh, Clara!
James Dana I.have.Clara,s.autograph.
I'm without words...just amazingly beautiful ❤😊
Beautiful lady; very attractive. What a shame that the thing that defines her life to so many people barely exists anymore.
Amazing!
So beautiful and cute.
She was a cutie. And her hair looks very modern.
THATS THE EXACT SAME COLOUR AS MY HAIR, LIKE THE SAME SHADE AND EVERYTHING ^___^
She was very pretty and talented but had a lot of sadness in her life
Simply wonderful!
She is perfectly cute!
This is a great movie.
"It? Hell, she had THOSE." -- Dorothy Parker, on Clara Bow.
Lololol too funny, was just thinking abt Ms Parker earlier today and now I find ur comment 😂 And it sounds like Ms Parker may have actually liked Clara, based on the mildness of the comment.
@@Kate-f1n haha, yep, Clara Bow definitely dodged a bullet.
*I remember them saying in one of the documentaries about her, that they initially rejected her because she was too short and too fat. Wft? She was as cute as a button, and very far from fat. No wonder women have bad views about their bodies. We women are like varied types of chocolate: different but just as sweet. I myself am only 5'1 with an hourglass figure. I have NO intention of being skinny and looking like a boy at my height. If someone doesn't like the way I look, they can point their eyeballs elsewhere lol*
Gorgeous. If only I had a time machine…..
Wow Clara in colour , Amazing
That's one very old pelican!
Poor lady. She would be considered beautiful even today.
When I watch Clara bow my heart break half forever cause she die long time ago I wish if she born now. 😍😍😍😍 Clara bow
She's just left her earth body. I am sure such a dear person is with Jesus. She suffered a painful life and was, like in this film short, an innocent soul. Compare her to the plastic young women of today.
Beautiful woman.
I love Clara Bow, thank you very much.x
Clara’s conquest were legendary. You can see why. Cute and adorable redheads win a man’s you know.
Her facial expressions are very "modern" as odd as that sounds. I feel like I'm watching what a 20 something year old woman would act like today, not in the 1920s, when I watch her
That's why she still has appeal today.
Clara Bow was a BADASS! Read her story for yourself.
Very nice. Thank you!👍
She's the BEST..!!!!
She was something special.
I didn't know there was color film in the 20's
Look up Edward Raymond Turner and his colour process.
With the help of modern tech, the films he made in about 1902 look amazingly good.