Thanks for the feedback, yeah those white dots are that film damage we talked about earlier, but I cannot see that continuous change in colour/brightness you describe, it may be the fluctuations and the slightly unstable colors and brightness in this old transfer you're seeing, I don't know, whatever it is you're seeing it's not something I have introduced. What bothers me in that scene are the extreme amount of haloing/edge enhancement and video dropouts.

So the transition from the clean opening titles to LD footage aren't too jarring then?