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Release Date: 1928

Cast: Pauline Starke, Anders Randolf, Donald Crisp, LeRoy Mason

Categories: Movies, Silent Film, Drama Film, Adventure Drama, Indie, Adventure

The Viking (1928) was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack, and the first film made in Technicolor's Process 3. Because of the technical limitation of their previous process with printing sound, the film is also the first time a feature film used Technicolor's dye-transfer process. (The previous Technicolor Process 2 used two prints—one red, one green—cemented base-to-base.) The film was considered the finest use of color cinematography at the time of release. The film still survives and remains an impressive example of early color film. The film was... MORE

The Viking (1928) was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack, and the first film made in Technicolor's Process 3. Because of the technical limitation of their previous process with printing sound, the film is also the first time a feature film used Technicolor's dye-transfer process. (The previous Technicolor Process 2 used two prints—one red, one green—cemented base-to-base.) The film was considered the finest use of color cinematography at the time of release. The film still survives and remains an impressive example of early color film. The film was based on the novel The Thrall of Leif the Lucky, itself based on Viking history, written by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz. In 1938, Technicolor president Herbert Kalmus later wrote, The film critic for the New York Times agreed, noting that "the figures often look as if they had stepped out of an opera comique," and, "The make-up of the players is often more than a trifle overdone, especially when the villain reveals on close inspection his mouse-colored eyelids." The storyline was based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea. The sound was LESS