Oh, yeah, most old home video releases were undersatured with unnaturally boosted reds.
As for Grindhouse, the point there is that the print was faded and so it had to go through color correction and they had no good reference, so they had to do it by eye and just decided to make snow white, which all evidence points to that it wasn’t in the original ESB prints.
Also, when a snowy landscape is dark, it does usually appear bluish, even in real life.Interesting photo, which almost leaves it just as unresolved because it does show some blue lighting but the main carcass snow is perfectly white:
http://dimmerlightstudios.com/screens_med/tfu/e5s_bts_48_r.jpgI respect your decision sir, I had to at least try! 😉
Before DI grading became the norm, DPs would use gels and filters to achieve a certain look. Now every DP is different, but I once worked on a film where we wanted a warm look and asking the lab to make all the shots warm was too expensive so we used warming gels on the lights.
I could show photos from the shoot and everyone would look normal. I could also get the original negatives scanned and make everything ‘normal’ but that’s not the effect we were going for.
You can’t trust photos from the set.