Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for a method of making color motion pictures in which films sensitive to different primary colors are exposed simultaneously and are later superimposed to produce the full-color print.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun trademark the name of one process used for color cinematography; -- also used attributively.
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- noun A
colour process formotion pictures , developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyper-realistic,saturated levels of colour. - adjective Using the Technicolor process.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a trademarked method of making color motion pictures
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Examples
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Beautifully paced, formally innovative and powerfully written, "Technicolor" is a story about the power of books to capture our imaginations and bully our emotions.
REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow 2010
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The final story in the book, John Langan's "Technicolor," is another tour de force, and makes me very eager to read Langan's new collection from Prime, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters.
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I hear they are filming this too in Technicolor in the ALPS ... the Return of Drick Grayson boy Wonder Captain of America!!
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The film was directed by Irving Pichel, was shot in Technicolor and was distributed in the USA by Eagle-Lion Classics.
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Sloane's is a generous, sparkling hilarity, and if the show is in Technicolor, the laughs are never cheap
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Anybody who thinks that the AA community is going to "forgive and forget" by November if Obama gets railroded is dreaming in Technicolor!
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Auschwitz was his great adventure, Angier writes, “his time in Technicolor … for which he could even feel nostalgia.”
If This Is a Man 2007
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He also lacked the necessary post-production facilities: Image shot his film in Technicolor, but at the time the only European laboratory to process the Technicolor negative was located in London.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007
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The Technicolor is great, and all in all, this was a fine exercise in nostalgia for me.
Archive 2007-07-22 Bill Crider 2007
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Auschwitz was his great adventure, Angier writes, “his time in Technicolor … for which he could even feel nostalgia.”
If This Is a Man 2007
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