Technicolor

[ tek-ni-kuhl-er ]

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.

adjective

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

Technicolor

/ 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

Example Sentences

It’s in Technicolor, and Judy’s in peak form – dancing with Fred Astaire.

From Washington Blade

The Smithsonian has a pair of Dorothy-worn ruby slippers, a film-used Scarecrow costume, a Technicolor camera from the “Oz” set and an original script — but no dress.

From Washington Post

I thought maybe watching the city being repeatedly reduced to rubble at a whim—endless computer-generated buildings demolished into nothing more than Technicolor pixel dust—might give me the hits I needed.

From MIT Technology Review

On Monday, Nicole Richie debuted her latest Technicolor hairstyle—a side-swept Cerulean low bun—on Good Morning America.

From The Daily Beast

After so many centuries of dull black-and-white, he led us bareheaded into an outdoor, Technicolor future.

From The Daily Beast

For example, I know that he told me he was very interested in shooting it in--the word just slipped my mind… Technicolor?

From The Daily Beast

"Beware" by Big Sean is awash in technicolor static, colorful sceneries overlaid over Big Sean.

From The Daily Beast

I mean people who tell high-test, dry-aged, technicolor extravaganza sort of lies.

From The Daily Beast

Later, she asked him if he had been having a bad dream and he said it had been closer to a nightmare in technicolor.

From Project Gutenberg

Texitalia Films is planning a 60-minute technicolor documentary to start.

From Project Gutenberg

He looked to his left, then felt a warm flush technicolor his cheeks.

From Project Gutenberg

So when you blacklist us with the Society, please let me know—I want to take a tri-di in technicolor of you doing it.

From Project Gutenberg

Piracy in the past has acquired the gaudy technicolor of high romance.

From Project Gutenberg