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The weird thing about Luke's saber in that scene is that, if you look at the compositing test clip that appears in ILM: Creating the Impossible (the one where we see a series of various partial composites and individual elements on black), in the portion that has the saber blade animation by itself on black, the blade has a real blue glow. Then in the clip of the composited image (which seems to be from the same test reel, not a different source), it's that aqua color that we know from most of the old transfers.
The only versions I've seen where the saber actually seemed to look blue throughout in the Falcon scenes were the Moth3r and Catnap telecines. Even with the lossy quality, I can still make out that it's blue in those, and even in the scenes where the optical glow is kind of weak compared to the white glow of the on-set prop, the blue glow still looks the proper shade of blue. (Though I'm not sure if those have accurate colors anyways, due to not being properly timed.)
For anybody who saw the Baltimore screening of the Technicolor print, what did the saber look like on that? Did it, in fact, look properly blue on the original theatrical prints (as it seems from the bootleg telecines)? The glow was apparently blue at some point, when did it start looking aqua or turquoise or whatever?
