From what I know, it seems the print is a faded Eastman, that was never meant to serve for archival purposes.
He speaks once of fade as ‘loss of vibrancy’. And describes Tatooine as a sort of yellow dusty color that he attributes, probably incorrectly, to fade. Whether or not its a transfer or presentation issue isn’t clear. But it sounds like it might actually look correct and he’s just comparing it to the SE that looks like Tatooine was a Californian summer with bright blue skies.
Either way, he wouldn’t be able to discuss things in this way if it was a bright red/pink Eastman film.
It’s pretty cool that it has the original crawl.