Poita… I’m a little scared you’re going to get mad at me…
It’s a beautiful scan… and I KNOW you’re in the “HOTH IS BLUE NOT WHITE!!” camp… and I know I’m not Dr. Dre… but that entire clip has a strong blue push to it. I’m reencoding it with Avidemux… I’ll post some comparison screenshots when it’s done?
Nah, I never get mad, always like to get constructive feedback.
There was no colour correction done to the Reel, it was just a test with the scanning light adjusted with an offset to counter the fade.
There are plenty of scenes where the snow is very blue, I’m not in that camp as such, it is just a fact when you watch the few unfaded prints that are left projected.
I’ll do a correction on the reels later, it is slow going at the moment scraping enough together for cleaning and scanning. Once that is done I can sit down in a screening room and correct to the print.
One interesting thing, a lot of the comp scenes are very dirty, but the dirt was in the comp, not the print itself. The dirt is identical in all prints, so it leaves one with the philosophical question of do you leave the dirt in. It was absolutely there in the theatrical release, and was part of the limitations of the tech at the time. It is also absolutely horrendous at times, it shows how different audience expectation was at the time that it was never mentioned in any reviews etc.
Check out the probe droid scene when it first rises up out of the crater and flies to the left of screen as an example of this.