Doctor X

John McElwee, and his Greenbriar Picture Shows has a highly interesting post up about Pre-Code Horror movie Doctor X:
" ... Doctor X and Mystery Of The Wax Museum are unique for being the only horror films shot in any kind of Technicolor during the thirties. The two-color process was never satisfactory for cartoons, and musicals suffered from pallid representations of costumes and décor, but horror films stood to reap enormous benefits from not of this earth color seemingly shot through lens smeared with formaldehyde. I don’t know how that Doctor X crew stood workdays that ran to twenty hours under the martinet direction of Michael "Skip Lunch" Curtiz (shown here with star Lee Tracy) [Edit by mrdantefontana: shown in the full post over at Greenbriar Picture Shows. Not in this post] . Unions in 1932 were proposed, if at all, in secret meetings among participants who knew not the meaning of days off. On Sabbaths while most rested, the Doctor X team had worked straight through Saturday night and into early morning hours, so that when they did finally arrive home, sheer exhaustion negated Sunday recreation other than blessed sleep. For those in the camera’s glare, lights needed to enable Technicolor were intense beyond endurance and some players sustained damage to eyes they’d keep for life. ..."

Enjoy the full post here.