Technicolor

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21 sections

Contents

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).