This is a truly random post. I'm feeling scattershot this evening, though not in a bad way. So who are the fellows soaked and inumbrated in green? And it's obviously a film still, but how old is it? Any guesses? It's taken from Dr. Cyclops, a wildly imaginative sci-fi trek from 1940 (!). It was the first genre film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor. Presuppose it as gospel; the movie is a visual feast. Director Ernest Schoedsack absolutely understands mise en scene. I love the way everything is framed, the way that the foreground is used to deepen the background. Needless to say, the florid colors drip off of the screen, so prepare towels at the base of your television to absorb all of that polychromasia.
Dr. Cyclops is not a case of style over substance. There is an interesting story, an innocuously ordinary "mad scientist" yarn that sees our protagonists being shrunk down and terrorized by the titular doc. Check it out if you can. Hell, check it out if you can't!
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