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Technicolor|ˈtɛknɪkʌlə(r)|
Also -our.
1. A proprietary name for various processes of colour cinematography, esp. ones employing dye transfer and separation negatives. Freq. attrib.
1917U.S. Patent 1,231,710 Daniel F. Comstock... Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, of Boston, Massachusetts. 1929Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 3 Dec. 24/1 Technicolor for motion-picture films. 1930Punch 2 Apr. 385 Show of Shows at the Tivoli, the latest and greatest of technicolour talkie reviews. 1932Discovery Dec. 382/2 The subtractive process..has been familiar to picture-goers in the many Technicolor films shown in this country. 1948Time 22 Mar. 85/3 Herbert T. Kalmus,..the co-inventor, developer, majority stockholder and president of Technicolor,..is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (after which Technicolor was named). 1950Trade Marks Jrnl. 5 Apr. 314/2 Technicolor... Photographic apparatus, cinematographic apparatus, television apparatus, apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving pictures in colour, and talking machines. Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation... 4th August 1949. 1976L.-A. Bawden Oxf. Compan. Film 681/1 A special projector with two apertures—one with a red filter, the other with a green filter—was needed to show early Technicolor films. Ibid. 682/1 Eastman Color, introduced in 1949, changed the whole nature of colour filming and from 1951 onwards Technicolor prints were made, still by dye transfer, almost exclusively from Eastman Color negative. 1978Amer. Poetry Rev. Sept./Oct. 10/2 ‘On the Towpath’ begins in black-and-white and quickly shifts to technicolor.
2. transf. and fig. (Also with small initial.) Vivid colour characteristic of colour cinematography. Chiefly attrib. and in phr. in glorious (gorgeous, etc.) Technicolor.
a1940F. Scott Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1941) v. 95 The theme..would come in some such guise as the auto horns from the Technicolor boulevards below. 1946J. B. Priestley Bright Day v. 130 She looked very beautiful, and in glorious technicolour. 1954M. Procter Hell is City i. vi. 35 A natural blonde of Technicolor brilliance. 1960M. Stewart My Brother Michael ii. 25 The heavy Technicolor prosperity of the plains. 1962N. Del Mar Richard Strauss iii. 85 The glorious technicolour of Strauss's orchestra. 1966Listener 13 Jan. 71/2 Illustrations in black and white and gorgeous Technicolor. 1977New Yorker 12 Sept. 32/3 A Technicolor-red leotard that matched her lips and her spike heels. 1979Church Times 2 Nov. 9/1 Evelyn Waugh has described how some glamorise it [sc. death] in glorious technicolour.
Hence ˈtechnicolored a.
1947E. F. Russell in Aldiss & Harrison Decade 1940s (1975) 166 ‘Laura [sc. a macaw] loves nuts.’ ‘I know it, you technicoloured bully.’ 1954Newsweek 27 Dec. 60/2 The palpable business of this Technicolored and CinemaScope production lies in its physical trappings, its underwater photography, and its action. 1962Movie Sept. 22/1 Setting the events of the previous summer on the Riviera as technicolored flashbacks from the black-and-white Parisian winter. 1982New Scientist 21 Jan. 179/2 Our face fuzz makes a pretty poor showing when compared with that bird's [sc. the peacock's] exuberant sensuality: you'd think evolution would have provided us with something more spectacular and ‘Technicolored’.
Add:3. Particle Physics. Freq. with lower-case initial. A hypothetical quantized property of bosons which is thought to be a form of strong interaction, analogous to the colour force.
1979Dimopoulos & Susskind in Nuclear Physics B CLV. 238 To replace the scalar field sector, a new family of massless fermions called ‘Techniquarks’ are introduced. The T-quark fields form electroweak doublets and N-tuplets under a new ‘Technicolor’ group. 1981Nuclear Physics CLXXXVIII. 550 It has been suggested that in addition to the SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1) gauge forces, there may exist even stronger gauge forces—‘hypercolor’ or ‘technicolor’. 1986R. N. Mohapatra Unification & Supersymmetry viii. 166 We, therefore, need a force (to be called technicolor) which becomes strong in a scale of 1 TeV or so. 1990Physics Lett. B. CCXXXVI. 327/1 Technicolor..is an alternative mechanism for breaking electroweak symmetry which does not rely on Higgs bosons. |