GZK8000 said:
Does this mean that Mike Verta’s color correction is revisionist, since in his restoration the blacks are really blacks, and that would not be representative of how Star Wars looked in theaters in 1977?What I’ve seen of MV’s work sure looks revisionist to me. Check out https://vimeo.com/123533858
At 3:30 or so, he says that “it never looked like this in theaters”.
Ah, I remember at the time I liked a lot the grading used in that video and others, and I still like it even if it’s not representative of the theatrical experiences.
Here’s 4K77: