PDB said:
TServo2049 said:
About Aliens: I've never seen Aliens in 35mm, but every 80s LPP print I've seen projected as of late (granted, most of them at the same theater, the Castro in San Francisco) seem to have (Caucasian) skin tones that are pale peach, maybe some muted orange or yellow in them. Skin tones don't usually seem to have too much red/pink in them. Also, fire and propane explosions and pyrotechnics often look very yellow, not much orange.
My question is: Anybody who's seen an original print of Aliens, does that sound at all accurate?
Most of the vintage 80s 35mm films I've seen at the AFI are slightly yellow/golden in hue.
I've seen Aliens on 35mm in the 2000s and a DCP of it last year. The DCP looked like the Blu-ray (had all the fixes) without the all-encompassing green. The green was there just less. The 35mm was long enough ago that I'm not sure of the exact colors but I did a little research and found these frames from a cutter on ebay:
I don't know if they are from the movie or a trailer and don't know how they were scanned so the colors and saturation might be off. Otherwise, if they can be trusted, they seem like half way between the DVD and LD. Colors less saturated then the LD and more saturated then the DVD. It has the blue and green highlights that the LD has but that were muted in the DVD. Skin tones are warmer then the DVD but not the extreme of the LD.
Edit: I was going through youtube and it does look like it comes from a trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSQmYUaIyE
Fleshtones are all very nice and orange in those 35mm shots of Aliens, I think you want to try to make sure you're getting those just right, I can see a little green in those fleshtones as well so you've got leeway to lean in that direction if you want, i'd personally avoid leaning towards the reds though in terms of fleshtones, the characters looking permanently sunburnt is not a good look IMHO.
Lights look nice and yellow as well, could probably use a little more red though to warm them up a bit more, at least for my taste.
I really like how the colours of those 35mm prints look! If you get the fleshtones and lightsources looking like those in the Aliens 35mm prints, you'll definately be onto something great here IMHO.