Cobra Kai said:

So speaking of Empire and Jedi, what sort of theatrical color references are available for these? Is the GOUT fairly accurate or is there even any way to know for sure? Just curious. I've seen various discussions on Empire and the question of how "blue" Hoth is supposed to look, for example, but didn't know if there were any reliable sources like the SW tech prints. I assume it would be from a variety of sources like the GOUT, PSB, 35mm scans, etc?

If one would aim for a true theatrical look for each film, I think ESB and ROTJ would be a bit problematic. Since none of those two were printed by technicolor, I guess there is no completely accurate reference source where the colors hasn't faded, at least that we have access to. (Correct me if I'm wrong!)

But one thing is sure about the GOUT, and that is that the colors differ from the screens I've seen of theatrical prints of each film. It's like they did a new color grade pass when this version was released on LD.

So what we chose to do was to simply use the greyscale in the three movies and tried to balance it nicely, and use the same color correction settings for all three films since they all have the same problem with reds and tint. Except that SW is more desaturated than ESB and ROTJ so the saturation increase is a bit higher in SW. What you get is a better representation of how the LD release should have looked.

So not a true theatrical version but a nice cleaner GOUT with more colors dug up!