DeLuxe Color

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DeLuxe Color{{cite web |last1=Gallagher |first1=Tag |title=Raoul Walsh |url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/walsh/ |website=Senses of Cinema |access-date=July 17, 2022 |date=July 2002}} or Deluxe color or Color by DeLuxe{{cite web |title=COLOR BY DELUXE Trademark of DELUXE LABORATORIES, INC. Serial Number: 77286094 |url=https://trademark.trademarkia.com/color-by-deluxe-77286094.html |website=Trademarkia Trademarks |access-date=July 17, 2022 |language=en}} 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'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.{{cite news |title=Feb 13, 1981 – PAGE 133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqJlAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA133 |access-date=July 17, 2022 |work=The Vancouver Sun |language=en}}

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).{{cite web |title=Dead Sea Cast & Credits |url=https://www.in70mm.com/newsletter/1997/48/dead_sea/index.htm |website=in 70mm |access-date=July 18, 2022}} "Showprint" is DeLuxe's proprietary name for an "EK" (for "Eastman Kodak"), the generic name for a release print made directly from the original camera negative instead of from an internegative.{{cite news |last1=Giardina |first1=Carolyn |title=Fox processes Deluxe Labs deal |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fox-processes-deluxe-labs-deal-131852/ |access-date=July 17, 2022 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |agency=Associated Press |date=March 13, 2007}}{{cite news |last1=Giardina |first1=Carolyn |title=Deluxe's Hollywood Film Lab to Close May 9 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/deluxes-hollywood-film-lab-close-686600/ |access-date=July 17, 2022 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=March 6, 2014}}