Editing Becky Sharp (film) (section)

==Production==

[[File:Becky Sharp (1935) 8.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|[[Rouben Mamoulian]], [[Miriam Hopkins]], visitor [[Michael Balcon]], and [[Kenneth Macgowan]] on the set of ''Becky Sharp'' (1935)]]

[[John Hay Whitney|John Hay "Jock" Whitney]] and [[Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney]] formed [[Pioneer Pictures]] specifically to produce color films, and signed a contract to release Pioneer films through [[RKO Radio Pictures]].<ref>Milne, 1969 p. 91, p. 165-166: Filmography</ref>

Original director [[Lowell Sherman]] began filming on December 3, 1934. The early Technicolor systems required massive lighting, which generated high temperatures on the set. Moving between the hot interior and cool winter temperatures outdoors, Sherman contracted pneumonia and died in late December. Rouben Mamoulian was immediately enlisted to take over as director.<ref>Jensen 2024 p. 114-115</ref><ref>Milne, 1969 p. 165-166: Filmography. Lowell died on December 28, 1934</ref> Sherman’s footage was retained, and Mamoulian shaped his subsequent Technicolor scenes based on the original script.<ref>Jensen, 2024 p. 116-117</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Variety|title=Lowell Sherman's Last|date=January 1, 1935|page=2|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety117-1935-01#page/n1/mode/2up/search/%22Lowell+Sherman%22}}</ref><ref name=AFI>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3647 |title=Becky Sharp: Detail View |publisher=American Film Institute |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403034620/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3647 |archive-date=April 3, 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=September 2, 2016 |df=mdy }}</ref>

===Color development===
''Becky Sharp'' was the first feature film to use the [[three-strip Technicolor]] process, which created a separate film register for each of the three primary colors, for the entirety of the film.<ref>Technicolor's earlier processes did not include a blue register, just green and red.</ref><ref>Danks, 2007: “...the first three-strip Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp…”</ref><ref>Milne, 1969 p. 91: “...the first feature in the new three-color Technicolor process.”</ref>

Earlier [[live action]] films to use the new Technicolor process for part of the film include the final musical number in the feature ''[[The Cat and the Fiddle (film)|The Cat and the Fiddle]]'' released by [[MGM]] in February 1934, and in short sequences filmed for other movies made during 1934, including ''[[The House of Rothschild]]'' ([[Twentieth Century Pictures]]/[[United Artists]]) with [[George Arliss]] and ''[[Kid Millions]]'' ([[Samuel Goldwyn]]/United Artists) with [[Eddie Cantor]]. [[Warner Brothers]] released two [[Leon Errol]] shorts, ''Service with a Smile'' (July 28, 1934) and ''Good Morning, Eve!'' (September 22, 1934), and [[RKO Pictures]] released the short ''[[La Cucaracha (1934 film)|La Cucaracha]]'' (August 31, 1934).<ref>Milne, 1969 p. 91: “Pioneer pictures…had made a very successful start in July 1934 with a short film, La Cucaracha, designed by Robert Edmund Jones and directed by Lloyd Corrigan.”</ref><ref>Spergel, 1993 p. 156</ref>