Technicolor
テクニカラー / 1922–1950s / Technique / Film Technology
Brought saturated color to cinema by separation negatives and dye transfer, fixing 'color more vivid than reality' in film memory.
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At a glance
Visual cues
- Saturated primaries
- Dye-transfer depth
- Color supervision
- Color-coding dream and reality
Best used for
- Separating dream or spectacle from the ordinary by color alone
- Musical and festival footage that needs the lift of saturated primaries
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Set titles on flat color, separate planes by density not face
- Composition
- Distribute color through costume and set, fix the area ratio first
- Material
- Keep reds and cyans deep, pull saturation only out of skin
- Caution
- Raising saturation across the board is not Technicolor, skin goes muddy, and every part of the frame ends up loud in the same way.
- Further study
- Natalie Kalmus, color supervisor / the color switch of The Wizard of Oz / the permanence of dye-transfer prints
Related entries
- Film Noir (フィルム・ノワール)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Technicolor and Film Noir
- Psychedelic (サイケデリック)Shared effects: Exhilaration.Compare Technicolor and Psychedelic
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