La Cucaracha (1934 film)

La Cucaracha is a 1934 American short musical film directed by Lloyd Corrigan. The film was designed by Robert Edmond Jones, who was hired by Pioneer Pictures to design the film in a way to show the new fullcolor Technicolor Process No.threestrip Technicolor at its best. Process No.had been used since 1932, mainly in Walt Disney cartoons. Jock Whitney and his cousin C. V. Whitney, the owners of Pioneer, were also major investors in Technicolor. La Cucaracha was made like a short feature and cost about 65,000. The usual short film at that time cost little more than 15,000 to film.

On January 25, 2000, The Roan Group released La Cucaracha on RegionDVD as an extra with the restored 1930 feature Dixiana. On October 27, 2009, Alpha Video released La Cucaracha on Region 0 DVD.

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