Poita, thanks so much for sharing your work so far. It has certainly been educational as I was one of those laboring long under the delusion that much of the Hoth colour-timing had leaned more toward white then blue. I don’t know where I picked up this misconception -
What’s the whole thing going to cost to scan and ship?
I think it is more an assumptive memory. We think of snow as white, so we remember it that way.
Ask most people the colour of the Sun, and they will say ‘yellow’ but walk outside and take a (quick) look and you will see that it is actually white.
I forget the term at the moment, but there are a bunch of colours that we automatically associate with objects, green grass, yellow sun, blue ocean etc. and we tend to remember them this way even when we saw them quite differently at the time.
As for costs, the main cost at the moment is ultrasonic cleaning, which comes out at 0.6c per foot plus taxes and shipping, which equates to about USD150 per reel, which means a 6 reel film is about $900 or so.