Stage 32 Glossary

Technicolor

Technicolor is the trade name for the best-known color film process; 3-strip color is often used as a synonymous term. Technicolor is also used generically as a term for rich, bright, vibrant, sometimes garish colors. Technicolor films were described as highly saturated (with pure and vivid colors).Technicolor (a 3-color dye transfer system) was introduced in the Disney short cartoon, "Flowers and Trees (1932)."