# Interior Set Decorating In The Black & White Era

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**Created:** [January 13, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interior-set-decorating-in-the-black-white-era/743048 "2016-01-13T18:30:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interior-set-decorating-in-the-black-white-era/743048/21 "2016-01-15T06:00:21Z")

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Color home movie footage from the set of “The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle” (1939) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers:  
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOEcP5AnvLQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOEcP5AnvLQ)

How it looked in the finished film (skip to 1:28 if you don’t want to hear the dubbed dialogue):  
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do3UO4ORWn0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do3UO4ORWn0)

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