poita said:

Do you still have the IB print?

I'd love someone to take a look at the film on a lightbox or project it and let us know if the girl at the end of Reel 4 and at the start of Reel 5 have that much colour disparity on the film, or if it is due to different settings when scanned.

I looked at my notes about the transfer and pulled the 35mm out as well. Reel 4 and 5 have the same setting throughout the transfer, and looking at the 35mm frames of the film the color shift is fairly accurately represented in the transfer. Technicolor had of course limited tools to do color correction, and it seems they usually used filters to match other elements in a scene. So, the answer is that it's actually like that on the actual prints. Other prints may vary as well. When you're collecting film you'll often have two different looks between reels, though prints from the same year/run look pretty identical color-wise (you can match them frame for frame if you have two from the same year). Collectors often complain that Technicolor got sloppy the last few years of printing (they stopped the process in 74- the last film to come out in IB was the Godfather part 2, although the printing technique was used in China for many years afterwords and in England (there are IB prints of Jaws, Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back-but not US prints)). Turner struck new IB tech prints of Gone with the Wind in 1997 or so. A handful of prints were struck of Apocalypse Now redux in IB technicolor even more recently- and it looks absolutely astonishing.

There will be an offer to the list of an unrestored animated feature soon to help finally defray the cost of transfer- and the original hd file to a few of you folks to work with.