kk650 said:
The publicity photo looks warm while your current regrade settings look cold, especially the fleshtones. Ultimately it boils down to your own preference of course, cold fleshtones on Raiders of the Lost Ark don't look right to me personally and the majority of stills and 35mm prints i've seen support that assumption. Here's another still from that bar scene that looks warm like your previous still:
I don't know if you use the movie stills database website, if you don't you really should, its really helped me in the past with older catalog releases to get a better feel for how colours and fleshtones looked on film at the time it was shot, how the sets looked with their natural lighting, how costume looked in normal lighting etc. Here's the address below for Raiders of the Lost Ark:
http://www.moviestillsdb.com/movies/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-i82971
The problem to me is that, don't look right is not a very objective criterium. Here's another teaser trailer that has most of its colors intact, and is consistent with the 1983 re-release trailer, confirms the color grading for the bar fight scene is accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkkzKHCx154
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