Word: technicoloration
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...thing, the soundtrack of the movie, which has been making the rounds for about 10 years, is not what it ought to be, or even what it once was. For another thing, the technicolor, which is supposed to evoke the fairy tale atmosphere of faraway Japan, only makes the picture look like a collection of colored postcards. And Kenny Baker plays Nanki-Poo, the wandering minstrell, as if he were an Irish Tenor. Apparently some one forgot to tell him that he was not singing for Jack Benny...
...Outriders (MGM) is a horse opera with a Civil War overture and some of the prettiest scenery that Technicolor has ever coaxed out of the wide West. Three rebels (Joel McCrea, Barry Sullivan, James Whitmore) escape from...
...years he fought over patents with Radio Corp. of America, in 1948 finally won all 40 claims in his patent application. Last week Willard Geer, now 47 and still a $4,500-a-year assistant professor at U.S.C., sold his tube* for a "substantial" sum to Hollywood's Technicolor...
...Geer tube was anywhere near perfect. But when & if perfected, the tube, Geer said, would make it easy to 1) convert existing TV sets to color, and 2) manufacture color television sets for less than the current prices of black & white receivers. The day after all this optimistic talk, Technicolor stock jumped 3¼ points...
Last week Technicolor gave in without a court fight. In a consent decree, it agreed to make its process, skilled know-how, and its 152 patents available to others. (In a 1948 consent decree, Eastman had agreed to end its film deal with Technicolor.) No longer will film producers be required to buy all of Technicolor's 25 services (e.g., printing, processing) in order to get any one service. Within a year, at least two Technicolor cameras will be available for rental with no strings attached...