I notice that the skin tones aboard the Death Star shift between yellow and a more natural pink. The Ben shot and the first Tarkin shot are very yellow, and there are two shots that are much more balanced. I wonder if most of reels 2 and 3 are unintentionally yellow-shifted, since the shots aboard the Falcon when fleeing Tatooine are also extremely yellow.

Keep in mind that Tech prints were supposedly timed to a more yellow projection bulb, so the colors on a print seen in neutral light should be more blue than normal. I have a hard time believing that the extreme yellow is supposed to be shifted even further yellow.

Also good to keep in mind, the complete Tech prints of Star Wars that we have are the result of cobbling and splicing together the leftover bits of prints from the closing of the Technicolor plant in Britain. We have no idea what the quality control looked like, and whether what pieces we have were ever intended to be shown. I’m not trying to discourage anyone, but simply trying to reconcile the look of these frames with the other sources at our disposal, none of which were this yellow.