I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me1941, “Pink Elephants on Parade”, in Ned Washington (lyrics), Oliver Wallace (music), Dumbo:
Technicolour dreams are all I see / Technicolour dreams of you and me1968, Anthony King, “Technicolour Dreams”, in Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo, performed by Status Quo:
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On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene / But yours was kitchen clean / Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, “Kid Charlemagne”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan:
It's so hard to be a technicolor girl in an earth-tone world.2007 May 2, “Letters”, in New York Times:
How could the electrochemical processes in the lump of gray matter that is our brain give rise to or, even more mysteriously, be the dazzling technicolor play of consciousness, with its transports of joy, its stabs of anguish and its stretches of mild contentment alternating with boredom?2007 November 18, Jim Holt, “Mind of a Rock”, in New York Times:
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.
Etymology Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.
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A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.
filmed in Technicolor [collocation in movie credits]
Etymology Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.
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Using the Technicolor process.
It was his opinion that 1946's Do You Love Me, a Technicolor musical, would go down much better with 'industrial audiences' than the 'better class' of viewer.