Process Description

A three-color additive process for amateur cinematography. The film base was embossed with microscopic cylindrical lenses. During shooting, light passed selectively through a banded color filter, which was focused by the camera lens onto the tiny embossed lenses and refocused onto black-and-white reversal emulsion as separate areas of red, green, and blue color information. The same banded filter was used during projection to reveal the natural color.		  

Identification Tip

Can be found in 35mm and 16mm gauges. Technicolor dye imbibition prints have a vibrant color image, with good dye stability, which may appear softer than modern chromogenic prints. Soundtracks are printed in black-and-white emulsion.