ChainsawAsh said:
What Director's Cut footage creeped into the theatrical Alien on the Quadrilogy disc? I hadn't heard that!
The biggest one is that the scene where Brett is finding Jones, the part where he is entering that cavernous room with some kind of vehicle where he finds the alien skin. It was always a bit gold-tinted, but in the DC it looks like the whole room is made out of solid gold, whereas in the original it was a brown-red-gold that looked a bit more like rust. I think Scott even acknowledges the new coloring of that scene. The whole film has had the contrast and such tweaked but that one section of the film stood out in particular as being tweaked to the point where it no longer resembled the original photography, at least as represented by all previous material. The levels throughout the rest of film probably are more accurate representations of the original answer print, for instance, the white levels of the awakening chamber were dialed down in some telecines because the primitive video couldn't handle whites like that (some early video telecines had the levels of the DC, which just blew out detail, which is why it was diaed back for the subsequent DVDs; the DC didn't have to adjust to such variables since video display was better).