2-509: DeLuxe Color or Deluxe color or Color by DeLuxe 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. Color by DeLuxe (sometimes with
4-509: 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). "Showprint" is DeLuxe's proprietary name for an "EK" (for " Eastman Kodak "), the generic name for a release print made directly from
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