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Line 24: '''''La Cucaracha''''' is a [[1934 in film\|1934]] [[short film\|short]] [[musical film]] directed by [[Lloyd Corrigan]]. It was designed by [[Pioneer Pictures]] to display the new full-color [[Technicolor]] Process No. 4 ("three-strip" Technicolor), which had been used since 1932 mainly in [[Walt Disney]] cartoons. [[John Hay Whitney\|Jock Whitney]] and his cousin [[Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney\|C. V. Whitney]], the owners of Pioneer, were also major investors in [[Technicolor\|Technicolor, Inc.]] ''La Cucaracha'' was made like a short feature and cost about $65,000. The usual short cost little more than $15,000. Although ''La Cucaracha'' is sometimes called the first non-cartoon use of Process No. 4, it was preceded by a musical number in the [[feature film\|feature]] ''[[The Cat and the Fiddle]]'' (released by [[MGM]] in February 1934), and ~~two~~in some short sequences filmed for other movies made during 1934, including the final sequences of ''[[~~Leon~~The ~~Errol~~House of Rothschild]]'' ~~shorts~~([[20th ~~released~~Century byPictures]]/[[United Artists]]) with [[George Arliss]] and ''[[Kid Millions]]'' ([[Samuel Goldwyn\|Samuel Goldwyn Studios]]) with [[Eddie Cantor]]. Also, [[Warner Brothers]] released two [[Leon Errol]] shorts, ''Service With a Smile'' (28 July 1934) and ''Good Morning, Eve!'' (5 August 1934), just before ''La Cucaracha''. Producer [[Kenneth Macgowan]] won an [[Academy Award]] in [[7th Academy Awards\|1935]] for [[Academy Award for Live Action Short Film\|Best Short Subject (Comedy)]] for this film.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web \|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/27899/La-Cucaracha/details \|title=New York Times: La Cucaracha \|accessdate=2008-05-11\|work=NY Times}}</ref>