Doctor M: Thanks for all your time and effort on the great analysis of the screen shots! :) It's very helpful to understand what the problem is with the colors, so then an optimum correction can be applied to make it look as close to the real theatrical presentation as possible.

Those corrections you made look a lot better, the flesh tones are more natural and the whole image looks for life-like, more the way it should.

Wow, those shots from the Technicolor print look awesome, don't they? :) Thank God we have those a reference.

CrumbY: I also like what you did there, looks good. Hopefully all the experts here can carefully compare the various color correction ideas from the various screen shots (hue, saturation, black levels, contrast, etc.) and come up with a set of corrections that will get the picture as close as possible to the proper theatrical appearance, while still maintaining good flesh tones, avoiding bleeding and noise, etc.

Once a really great set of correction values has been arrived at, then those working on restoration projects, like dark_jedi and his V3 DVD set, can use those values to give their restorations the best most accurate colors possible.