DeLuxe Color
or Deluxe color or Color by DeLuxe is
Deluxe Laboratories brand of color process for motion pictures. DeLuxe Color is
Eastmancolor-based, with certain adaptations for improved compositing for printing (similar to
Technicolor
Technicolor is a family of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes. The first version, Process 1, was introduced in 1916, and improved versions followed over several decades.
Definitive Technicolor movies using three black-and ...
's "selective printing") and for mass-production of prints. Eastmancolor, first introduced in 1950, was one of the first widely-successful "single strip color" processes, and eventually displaced three-strip Technicolor.
Color by DeLuxe (sometimes with a space before the L) became a popular, vivid and stable process for filmed color television series from the mid 1960s, especially by
20th Century-Fox Television studios.
DeLuxe also offers "Showprints" (usually supplied to premieres in Los Angeles and New York). "Showprint" is DeLuxe's proprietary name for an "EK" (for "
Eastman Kodak
The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak (), is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorporated i ...
"), the generic name for a release print made directly from the original camera negative instead of from an
internegative.
See also
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Alan E. Freedman
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Deluxe Entertainment Services Group
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List of color film systems
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Metrocolor
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Sol M. Wurtzel
References
External links
Deluxe official website
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Film and video technology
Technology companies established in 1915
20th Century Studios
Universal Pictures
1915 establishments in New Jersey
Companies based in Burbank, California