Happy Days (1929 film)

Happy Days is a 1929 American PreCode musical film, notable for being the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world, filmed in the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. French director Abel Gances Napolon 1927 had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. In 1927, Paramount released Old Ironsides with two sequences in a widescreen process called Magnascope. In 1928, MGM released Trail of 98 in a widescreen process called Fanthom Screen.

Originally titled New Orleans Frolic, the story centers around Margie played by Marjorie White, a singer on a showboat who goes to make her fortune in New York City, despite being in love with the boat owners grandson. Although successful in the city, when she hears that the showboat is in financial trouble she calls all the boats former stars to perform in a show to rescue it.After a preview on September 17, 1929, Happy Days premiered at the Roxy Theater in New York City on February 13, 1930 with a Niagara Falls widescreen short on a Grandeur screen of 42x20 ft, compared to the standard 24x18 ft screen. It was also shown in Grandeur at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, from February 28, 1930. ........

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