Dick Powell 1932 In Color! 

Love Dick Powell. Pity he died so young as he was so talented and was able to transition from young singer to full fledged actor, director, producer, Toby Wing was the epitome of a show girl beautiful and talented.

The 30's blew away the 40's in style and beauty and they did it in black and white! It's cute seeing the girls in color, but in black and white they look heavenly ...what am I saying, they look heavenly in color too! Gotta love that Harry Warren for all of that catchy music too.

Wow! Wasn't Toby Wing a beautiful girl. No wonder she was so popular in films of the era, even though her roles were small. Very memorable lady. I heard she married (lastingly and happily) and retired in Florida.

thank you so much for uploading several colored versions of Busby Berkeley scenes!!!

What a wonderful offer! My birthday is August 9th so a few months yet but that would indeed be a fantastic birthday present! I absolutely love your channel BTW.

Wow! Incredible to see that number in color! I know that many early musicals had 2-strip technicolor sequences but I thought 42nd Street was pure B and W. Or was this color version kept within the studio? Any other numbers from the movie filmed in color? God, I'd love to see the final 42nd Street number in color! Many thanks for this!

It was the cost that kept colour down after the initial rush in the late 20's, the Wall Street crash etc left studios floundering and colour was dropped till '35 for general use, and still restricted to big films. Berkeley loved colour, but was forced to B/W by costs. Interestingly the colourised versions are probably as good as the real thing or better! Early computer colour was awful, but it has improved.

Can someone please fix the audio? There's a very strong bass-like noise/buzzing that begins about 20 seconds into this clip. Sounds almost like a loose ground wire.

Marvellous ! Merci !

Ted Turner authorized color versions of the classic films in the TCM library to be made from the original black and white negatives of each film. And that is what he first broadcast, including 42nd Street. Not the version you see here. Those images were much more clean. What you see here is a copy of a copy, and that is why everything seems so blurred. Still, the original finished product left a lot to be desired. As a result, Turner was blasted by many in the industry, accused of misrepresentation of the director's original intent and worse, desecration. The heat got so bad, Turner pulled all of the colorized prints of old classics and none of them have been seen in more than 20 years. But, all this talk of the magic and wonder of black and white leaves me cold. What "magic?" What "wonder?" The world was not black and white. Color abounded everywhere, then as now. What is lost is the vitality, the energy of life; the vividness. Turner had the right idea, but at the time the available technology did not match his ambitions. That tech is available now and is becoming even more precise with each passing day. Yes, the original black and white is impressive, especially when you can see a pristine print. But, in color the overall motion picture is very likely to be far more impressive, particularly to 21st century eyes. And if color wasn't a preference, even back then, why were all the posters outside the theaters showing this movie drawn in color? Why did all of the popular magazines of the era feature hand drawn color portraits of all the top movie stars? If Busby Berkeley had been able to use color in 1933 he would have; just look what he did in the 1940s in the Esther Williams films and some of the other musicals he directed. Black and white may be perfect for some genres - film noir, certainly - but a musical? I'll take a colorized version of 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933 or Broadway Melody of 1940 any day of the week.

THEY WERE WEARING PINK?!?

But we can't see his beautiful blue eyes😍

I'm sorry, but nothing beat the Black and White.

This is just a colorized clip from 42nd Street.

42nd Street??

This is from the 80s Colorized version of 42ND STREET, not real color!

Reading the comparison a bit wrong I think, the best colourisation beats early 2 strip quality in many cases, and could be use to restore older 2 strip in bad shape or missing, as with B/W only surviving. Colourisation does no harm to originals, thank goodness, bit it can be a stinking mess when badly done.

Interesting but I like my Berkley in Black and White.

Colorized

Phooey! This is Turner Colorization. Rare, indeed! Feh!

Horrific artificial coloring on the original black and white film. Clear loss of quality of the original film. It does not contribute anything, on the contrary, it annoys and disturbs the visualization of the scene.

Much MUCH better in black & white. . That's the whole point of them wearing black & white too. All monochrome. . And what's with the zooming in @ 3.24 ??

DREADFUL! A beautiful Warner Bros number DESTROYED by vile colourization, and a shoddy soundtrack. These numbers were DESIGNED to be and Black and White.