"Good Morning, Eve!" is a 19-minute live action short film from 1934, so this one is already over 80 years old. The people who worked on this one, in front of the camera as well as behind it, were all fairly prolific and people with an interest in films from the first half of the 20th century may possibly recognize some of the actors, Stooges fans in particular for example. Anyway, the title already gives away that this is the story of Adam and Eve and they take a travel through time from their very early days to the days of Nero in Rome over the Middle Ages and finally arriving today (I should say the 1930s). This one is packed with music, even if I must say it is mostly music that invited people back then to dance and nothing with really amazing range. But that's fine. What is less fine is how the two protagonists almost disappeared during the Middle Ages sequence and this is where the film felt like it had no focus and was really just for the sake of entertainment. The lack of a story cannot be neglected here and recurring jokes like Adam drooling over all kinds of women cannot really make up for it. At least the ending was somewhat funny and smart and actually fairly progressive for a film from back then (even if we don't see any real nudity of course). And it also explains why Adam and Eve are not only not scared from from an airplane, but run right towards it. An early example of dream sequences used in film, something Méliès for example also used already in the 19th century. As a whole, this film has not aged very well, but I can see its appeal to people in the 1930s, also because of the use of Technicolor. I still give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
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