Technicolor
Vivid cinema process
Technicolor is a trademarked motion picture color process that dominated Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for its saturated, vibrant hues.
Films like *The Wizard of Oz* and *Gone with the Wind* showcased its distinctive look.
The term evokes Golden Age cinema glamour: shot in glorious Technicolor. (Lowercase technicolor describes anything vividly multicolored.)
Kansas girl's odyssey
- Gone with the WindCivil War era epic
- FantasiaImaginative musical composition
- Snow WhiteGrimm's fairest maiden
- Sleeping BeautyCurse-bound dormant royal
American film industry center
- classicOf lasting excellence
- restorationReturning something to condition
- archiveStored historical records
- nitrateNO₃ compound
talkies · consultant · trademark · monopoly · licensing
Formal recording of participation
- multilayerHaving multiple strata
- subtractiveInvolving removal or reduction
- matrixOrdered numerical arrangement
- printingReproducing text mechanically
blanket · transfer · cyan · magenta · yellow · nitrate · prism · camera
Evoking recent past
- vintageQuality from past eras
- midcenturyAround the 1950s
- classicOf lasting excellence
- glamourFascinating, elegant attractiveness
sepia · faded · restored · revival · Americana · postwar · fifties · forties
Wizard of Oz
Kansas girl's odyssey
- Gone with the WindCivil War era epic
- FantasiaImaginative musical composition
- Snow WhiteGrimm's fairest maiden
Hollywood
American film industry center
- classicOf lasting excellence
- restorationReturning something to condition
- archiveStored historical records
nitrate · talkies · consultant · trademark · monopoly · licensing
registration
Formal recording of participation
- multilayerHaving multiple strata
- subtractiveInvolving removal or reduction
- matrixOrdered numerical arrangement
printing · blanket · transfer · cyan · magenta · yellow · nitrate · prism · camera · laboratory
retro
Evoking recent past
- vintageQuality from past eras
- midcenturyAround the 1950s
- classicOf lasting excellence
glamour · sepia · faded · restored · revival · Americana · postwar · fifties · forties
widescreen
Horizontally extended display format
- anamorphicIntentionally warped for correction
- Film Technologycamera, projector, film reel, film stock, cinematograph
- entertainment historyvaudeville, silent films, talkies, Hollywood, movie palaces
- colorfulrainbow, prism, spectrum, kaleidoscope, tie-dye
- Animation HistoryWalt Disney, Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie, Looney Tunes, golden age
- color photographywhite balance, saturation, hue, tint, RGB
- film techniquesdolly zoom, closeup, close-up, fade, wide shot
Technicolorblack-and-white
Without color gradations
monochrome · black and white · grayscale · colorless · monochromatic
Technicolormuted
Made quieter or softer
dull · faded · washed-out · desaturated · drab
- technicolor yawnHumorous term for vomiting
color, technique, technical, technology, technically, technicality, technologist