Technicolor

Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by The Technicolor Corporation, now a division of Thomson. The Technicolor Corporation was originally founded by Dr. Herbert Kalmus in 1915. It was the second major color film process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color motion picture process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952. Technicolor became known and celebrated for its hyper-realistic, saturated levels of color, and was used commonly for filming musicals (such as The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain) and animated films (such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia).

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Kinemacolor: Kinemacolor was the first successful color motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1916. It was developed by George Albert Smith of Brighton, England, for the Urban Trading Co., London, in 1906. It was a two-color additive process, photographing and projecting a black and white film b...

Technicolor related Images and Photos (experimental)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat DVD (Widescreen)