Song of the Flame (film)

Song of the Flame
Directed byAlan Crosland
Written byGordon Rigby (screen version & dialogue)
Based onSong of the Flame
(1925 operetta)
by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach
StarringAlexander Gray
Bernice Claire
CinematographyLee Garmes (Technicolor)
Edited byAl Hall
Music by(see article)
Production
company
Distributed byFirst National Pictures[1]
Release dates
  • May 6, 1930 (1930-05-06) (NYC)
  • May 25, 1930 (1930-05-25) (US)
  • [1] ([1])
Running time
70 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Song of the Flame is a 1930 American pre-Code musical film photographed entirely in Technicolor. Based on the 1925 operetta of the same name, the film features a screenplay by Gordon Rigby adapted from the musical book written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach for the operetta. The movie also features many of the songs from the operetta which used lyrics by Hammerstein and Orbach and music by George Gershwin and Herbert Stothart. The film was produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was the first color film to feature a widescreen sequence, using a process called Vitascope, the trademark name for Warner Bros.' widescreen process. The film, based on the 1925 Broadway musical of the same name, was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording (George Groves).[2] It is part of the tradition of operetta films, popular at the time.

  1. ^ a b c "Song of the Flame". AFI.com. AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
  2. ^ "The 3rd Academy Awards (1929/30) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 5, 2011.