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Service with a Smile (1934)

Service with a Smile poster
Directed by
Roy Mack
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
17 min
Rating
8.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short comedy from 1934. It was the first live action film in full color. The story follows a comedic situation set in a service setting.

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What happens

Service with a Smile is a 1934 Vitaphone short comedy film directed by Roy Mack and released by Warner Bros. on July 28, 1934, that was the first live-action film in full color (three-strip Technicolor). This film debuted in theaters a few weeks before the Pioneer Pictures film La Cucaracha (also produced in three-strip Technicolor). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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