I actually do work in the field of post production and I handle and deal with downconversions, upconversions, pulldown/frame rate conversions all day long. Most of what I master is for Broadcast, Blu Ray, and digital prints. If workflow in the 90s is what it is today, then the film would be first converted to a digital tape format before laserdisc mastering would happen. At the time I am guessing it would have been a D1, or a D2. Seeing as how those are SD only formats I am almost positive that those tape did not support a 23.98 frame rate in 1993. I would almost bet everything I had that it went to a digital tape at 29.97. At some point this was converted back to 23.98, which is something that you never want to do.

At any rate we all agree the gout looks like crap.

Any feedback on my pics above on the color would be appreciated.