Technicolor

American  

[tek-ni-kuhl-er] / ˈtɛk nɪˌkʌl ər /

Trademark.

1. a brand name for a system of making color motion pictures by means of superimposing the three primary colors to produce a final colored print.

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adjective

1. (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.

Technicolor British  

/ ˈtɛknɪˌkʌlə /

noun

1. the process of producing colour film by means of superimposing synchronized films of the same scene, each of which has a different colour filter, to obtain the desired mix of colour

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Example Sentences

As the Technicolor label bragged, “This is the smog used by famous Hollywood stars!”

From Los Angeles Times

The use of Technicolor allowed for vibrant colors, with untold new potential.

From The Wall Street Journal

Unlike Douglas Sirk’s beautifully photographed Technicolor melodramas of the 1950s, or the subgenre’s more narratively contemplative, weepy entries from the late ’70s, the new guard of romantic tearjerkers doesn’t have a pronounced stylistic draw.

From Salon

The aforementioned St. Basil’s segment recast medieval Russia’s Post-Mongol invasion as a sort of Cyrillic “It’s a Small Word” complete with animated technicolor onion domes.

From Salon

The former was a tribute to the Technicolor musicals of cinema’s heyday and a love letter to jazz, filled with show-stopping musical numbers and a pair of knockout lead performances; the latter, a touching triptych chronicling a man’s search for self-acceptance and love in a cruel world eager to define his Blackness and sexuality for him.

From Salon