''The Lady of Victories'' is a 1928
MGM
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silent fictionalized film short in two-color
Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films ...
. It was the third short film produced as part of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by amazon (company), Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded o ...
's "Great Events" series.
Production
The film began production at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood on November 21, 1927, and wrapped on November 26. It was the first of the "Great Events" shorts to credit Andre Chotin art director. The production featured some of experimental nighttime exterior scenes, a risky artistic and technical undertaking at the time, because of the amount of light needed for proper exposure on Technicolor's film stock.
Release
The film accompanied the
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is consider ...
silent feature ''
The Circus (1928 film)
''The Circus'' is a 1928 silent film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis and Henry Bergman. The ringmaster of an impoverished circus hires Cha ...
'' in many theaters during its initial release.
Preservation Status
''The Lady of Victories'' has been partially preserved, with 1,000 foot fragments preserved by
EYE Film Institute
Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands.
Location and history
Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in t ...
, the
George Eastman House
The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...
, and the
UCLA Film and Television Archive
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the archiv ...
.
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1928 films
American silent short films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
Silent films in color
Films about Napoleon
Cultural depictions of Joséphine de Beauharnais
Cultural depictions of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
1920s American films