#two-strip technicolour

[tomwatchfilm]

All the Colours of the Dark in Doctor X

(cinem. Ray Rennahan and Richard Towers, Dir. Michael Curtiz, 1932)

It’s impossible to overstate how important the colour is in this. Seductive in its texture, sickly in its hues, like oil pooling and coating a serious of archly presented corpses and artificial sets. The one daytime exterior scene on the beach feels like a violation of a pure thing.