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Technicolor
Sign in to savethumb|"Technicolor is natural color" Paul Whiteman stars in an ad for his film [[King of Jazz from The Film Daily, 1930]] Technicolor is a family of color motion picture processes. The first version, Process 1, was introduced in 1916, and improved versions followed over several decades.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- photographic technique
- Country
- United States
- Image
- Technicolor ad - Motion Picture, July 1930.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Films shot in Technicolor
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- inception
- 1914-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Herbert Kalmus
- Commons category
- Technicolor
- location of formation
- Boston
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Company history
- Color process history
- Two-color Technicolor
- Process 1
- Process 2
- Process 3
- Process 4: Development and introduction
- Early adoption by Disney
- Convincing Hollywood
- Limitations and difficulties
- The introduction of Eastmancolor and decline
- Post-1995 usage
- Reintroduction of the dye transfer process
- Dye transfer Technicolor in archival work
- Technicolor today
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|"Technicolor is natural color" Paul Whiteman stars in an ad for his film [[King of Jazz from The Film Daily, 1930]] Technicolor is a family of color motion picture processes. The first version, Process 1, was introduced in 1916, and improved versions followed over several decades.
Definitive Technicolor movies using three black-and-white films running through a special camera (Three-strip Technicolor or Process 4) started in the early 1930s and continued through to the mid-1950s, when the three-strip camera was replaced by a standard camera loaded with single-strip "monopack" color negative film. Technicolor Laboratories were still able to produce Technicolor prints by creating three black-and-white matrices from the Eastmancolor negative (Process 5).
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