A trademark used for a method of making movies in color in which films sensitive to different primary colors are exposed simultaneously and are later superimposed to produce the full-color print. This trademark often occurs in lowercase and in figurative contexts in print: "Trees in autumnal technicolor of crimson and gold turned suddenly white after a storm" (Washington Post).
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