British musicals always took a more modest path than the American ones. In "Harmony Heaven", you can see that England in 1930 was far behind in technical proficiency.
By 1930, the transition from silent film to talkies in Britain was almost complete. Alfred Hitchcock's 'Blackmail' had been released the previous year in both silent (for theatres which had not yet converted to sound) and sound versions, and had met with much acclaim.
I had only managed to see this once before,about 25 years ago at the NFT.They showed the "colour"print.
