Patented in 1916, filmmakers widely implemented the Technicolor process, characterized by highly saturated colors, up through the early 1950s. This term was coined by the company named Technicolor, and the trademarked term described a brand name for transforming black-and-white film “by means of superimposing the three primary colors to produce a final colored print.” The process replaced a much more time-consuming method of hand-coloring the prints.
#Silver screen video movie#
When English speakers first started attending “the pictures” in the 1910s, movie screens were coated with reflective metallic paint, resulting in a silver surface to better display the projected images.īy the 1920s, the term silver screen moved beyond the literal realm and into metaphorical territory to apply to cinema in general. Fun fact: this type of broadening in which something associated with an object or concept takes on the name of that thing is called metonymy. Where did the phrase silver screen come from?
With film award season in full swing (the 2023 Golden Globes were held January 10, and the Oscars air March 12), we examine a few of the more enduring terms, some of which have even broadened their applications beyond the lexicon of film. Take Smell-O-Vision, the movie-going experience in which plot-related scents were pumped into the theater during screenings it made its first and last appearance in the same 1960s film, Scent of Mystery. Some terms, along with the concepts they described, were fleeting. Since its introduction in the early 20th century, the film industry’s contributions to the English language have been manifold.
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