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Post #1064439

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hairy_hen
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Beauty and the Beast - 35mm "Help Needed" (a WIP)
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Date created
10-Apr-2017, 4:13 PM

I was intrigued to see that the color timing of The Matrix trailer seems very much like how it is on the film print scan we have.

This could mean one of two things: either this was an early version of the color scheme that only appeared on the first run of prints, and later prints were revised to the more familiar green; or else that all prints appeared this way, and the green was only introduced on home video months later. For the most part, I think this film version just looks better than it ever did later on: the look is clearly artificial, but it still has that organic look that well made film provides, without being completely antiseptic and cold like the later revisions.

Anyway, not to derail the thread, but I thought that was interesting . . .