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Technicolor prints are subject to the same wear and tear as
any other film. As the vast majority of genuine Technicolor
films are now well over 40 years old, the physical condition of
the film should be checked before purchase. For that reason,
it is important to be able to recognise what color process has
been used to produce the print
Technicolor prints in both 35mm and 16mm generally have
clear perforations, with no wording, except for in the case of
35mm, ‘nitrate film’ or ‘safety film’. The exception are 16mm
British Technicolor prints, which often have the word
"Technicolor' in the perforation area.
Left: British 16mm Technicolor print
Technicolor Problems
Defective Technicolor prints are not unknown, apart from
splices and scratches due to wear, the main type of defects
found are poor registration and poor color balance, ‘crazing’
and along with all early safety films, they are subject to
Vinegar Syndrome (VS).

Poor registration is due to a lab printing problem, which has caused by one of the three-color
images to be displaced from the others. The on-screen result is color fringing on solid
edges.

Poor color balance can result in excessive color level caused by an excess of one of the primary
printing colors; this is especially evident on facial coloring. It is not unknown for the color
balance to vary from one print to another, so if a feature has been made up from two different
prints, some variation in color may be experienced from reel to reel.
"Crazing" results in minute cracks in the color layers, giving irregular patterns of fine random
lines on the screen. This is the same effect that can sometimes be seen in the glaze of dinner
plates, etc.

“Emulsion Creep” this possibly results from poor storage, possibly in a damp location.
The result is that parts of the image appear to have moved and the results in blurred areas in
the image.

ODD ONE:
Title says
“Photographed in
TRUCOLOR by
Consolidated.
Print by Technicolor
Frame from
“Toughest Man in
Arizona” (Republic
1952)
(Technicolor print)