That would be awesome!

For a preservation of the best-color 2001, the 3-disc Criterion Collection CAV Special Edition laserdisc

can be had from eBay between $10 and $20+ (with auction history also showing under $10 wins). A state-of-the-art AntcuFaalb-style capture would be most excellent! *nudge, nudge, hint, hint* :)

If just for the Kubrick-approved palette, the 2-disc Criterion Collection CLV budget laserdisc

should do and it can be had for under $10.

Note that either one might require the rudimentary compensation to get it up Taschen-released-sources quality, if it doesn't actually come off the laserdisc that way (assuming both come with colorbars). Then, it should be ready for use as the full movie's color guide.

Due to the Criterion laserdisc coming from a 35mm scope source (apparently there was no equipment to do the mastering from 65mm), the resulting LD image was narrower. Therefore, my test H-S-L-mxing approach results in no color to transfer at the very edges (noticeable on the red chair, a few posts back). Short of cropping the final result, those wider edges would require color-correcting the higher definition source anyway. So just do it all that way from the start.

I tried a test color-correction to confirm that the 2001 HD release (screenshot from the DVDBeaver review, linked previously) wasn't some unholy Lucas-Lowry space graffiti. Fortunately not, for my simple histogram R-G-B manipulations corrected the spectrum nicely:

That is so wow!