msycamore said:

Asaki said:

Well as we discussed elsewhere, the 35mm version has a lot of white clipping that may or may not have been intentional.

I don't think that clipping is ever intentional. Which 35mm version are you talking about, one of the 35mm prints -1 had acquired? As I understand it, interpositives has lower contrast than regular release print stock, to take into account for the contrast that builds up in the internegative and release print stages, I'm sure there are differences between different prints and what film stock it is. But what's going on in the case of what we are seeing on the video transfers on the Technidisc or the GOUT is obviously clipping introduced when they did the transfers, nothing unusual.

If Gout was taken as has been guessed from the original D1 tapes, not sure if it was the limitations of those tapes or at the telecine stage that the clipping was introduced. Clearly its one or the other.

That along with the early not quite sophisticated or modern dvnr which was harshly applied, to remove the extra layers of grain on the IP produced the mess that is the GOUT. A fine transfer for the laserdisc era, but not good enough in the DVD era much less blu ray.

The extra grain would have appeared as noise on laserdisc and old tv sets.

So was not really a duh why did they do that thing. Until 2006 and dumped to DVD.