Technicolor - Name Usage

Name Usage

The term "Technicolor" historically has been used to describe four concepts:

  • Technicolor process or format: the several image origination systems used in film production (1917-), which culminated in the "three-strip" process. (1932–1955)
  • Technicolor IB printing ("IB" abbreviates "imbibition", a dye-transfer operation): a process for making color motion picture prints that allows the use of dyes which are more stable and permanent than those created in chromogenic color prints. Originally used for printing from color separation negatives photographed on black-and-white film in a Technicolor camera, it was later applied to making prints from negatives photographed on standard color film in an ordinary camera. (1928–2002, with differing gaps of availability post-1974 depending on lab)
  • Technicolor labs: a collection of film laboratories across the world owned and run by Technicolor for post-production services including developing, printing, and transferring films in all major developing processes, as well as Technicolor's proprietary ones. Films using these labs thus retain a "Color by Technicolor" credit even though no Technicolor format or printing have been offered recently. (1922–present)
  • Technicolor: an umbrella company encompassing all the above as well as other ancillary services. (1914–present)

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