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Post #684440

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TServo2049
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Movies with wrong color grading *** UPDATED ***
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Date created
19-Jan-2014, 6:08 PM

This isn't meant to be a discussion of copyright, anyways.

Here's an odd one. In every transfer of The Land Before Time, going back to the VHS, the early scenes with baby Littlefoot have him looking gray or even purple, instead of brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJg3GP4tH94

But I found this image from a recently-ended auction for a 35mm print:

The same scene looks warmer, and Littlefoot looks more brownish - closer to how he looks in the rest of the film.

In fact, I have a 720p MKV of the HDTV transfer, and looking at it against the other screencaps from that auction, the whole film seems to have a warmer cast in the 35mm.

I wonder, has every transfer been inaccurate to the theatrical timing, and nobody ever realized it?

(The screenshots also show that it has a bit more picture on all four sides than any of the 4:3 OR widescreen transfers. Would be cool to get that print if it were ever relisted - it was $260 and ended with no bids.)