Watching this movie, the color seemed more "vivid", I guess you could call it that anyway. The "Wild Wild West" reruns color seems similar. I really like it, seems better than what they do now, especially when a commercial comes on, can see the difference. Read a little bout it and copied a link:

“The War of the Worlds” (1953) was shot in the 3-strip Technicolor process, which did not actually involve color film, the camera exposed three b&w negatives through red, green and blue filters to capture color information for printing, which involved transferring yellow, magenta and cyan dyes onto a clear strip of film. The camera process was obsolete by 1955 (dye transfer printing continued at Technicolor until the mid-1970s.) “The Time Machine” (1960) was shot on Kodak color negative film. And there are still movies made today shot on Kodak color negative film though it is a small percentage of overall production.
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Posted this in case there was anyone else around here that noticed the color difference in some older shows as opposed to now.

Back in the day around 1970 I remember Dye transfer prints were the ultimate in color reproduction.
Usually places like Ad Agency's that had top tear clients like cigarette company's would pop for dye transfer prints to show clients print ad choices.
I remember Marlboro was the king for money spent to produce ads.
I did not know that dye transfer prints were done for motion pictures, It must have been extremely expensive and time consuming.
Kodachrome is another process that actually introduces the dyes in the processing. A process only Kodak could do.
I do miss the warmth of Kodachrome asa 25. As a professional back then Kodachrome was rarely used because processing was not able to push or pull film and the wait time was days not hours like Extachrome.

As Armored said, Kodachrome was also a dye based process with filters in the film stock allowing the layers to be exposed by different colors of light and then the dye was introduced into each layer. No one processes Kodachrome any more, at all. It was a beautiful color positive film stock and nothing has ever looked quite like it.

It is interesting that Technicolor was also a dye process. There was Kodachrome movie film, too.

Fortunately the vast majority of film photos I took over the years were done with Kodachrome. Those slides have held their color the best. Ektachrome faded much more.

"Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers"

I never realized how involved the color process for movies was back in the vintage days. Back in the 70's, being a teenager, you could buy black and white or color 35mm film for your camera, no big deal, I thought old movies were filmed the same way, not much news back then how older movie films were made.
This is 15mins long, not sure how accurate it is, there are other videos about it, pretty much say the same though.
Seemed like a lot of work to bring color to the movie theaters, I knew that Disney would paint their cartoons back then, didn't even think about how movie films were made.

The color on Technicolor films in the '50s was just the best; incredible vibrant colors!
I was thinking of the film "Oklahoma!" (which used the Eastman process)recently and its beautiful intense color in the restored film. I'd like to see a film made today with the same sort of color; one that could benefit from such extravagant color!