Mitch said:
The bottom line is I was expecting pen marks, dirt, hair, splice marks, reel changes etc.... Bottom line is this is years and years old, I expect a terrible shape.
Someone took care of this.
I have a 35 mm in the can of the THING and the color is very washed out after sitting in the cans
Seconded. My local theatre shows a 35mm print of the Director's Cut of Alien that looks worse than this, and it's only from 2003.