A few things have happened over the last couple of days. Firstly, Williarob was kind enough to allow me early access to the Silverscreen Edition Grindhouse, to conduct some further color experiments. Secondly, I updated the color correction algorithm. After catching up on the in and outs of film, and digital film corrections, I realized I was working under the wrong assumptions, namely that I should work in the YCM color space, when in fact it should be RGB. I could go into the theory of it all, but it suffices to say, that everything fell into place, and I was able to correct reel 1 of the Star Wars LPP with a single color correction model without green shifts or any other major anomalies. I also ran some first tests on reel 2. Here’s a gallery of frames from reel 1, before and after, and one frame from reel 2. Surprisingly the colors are in many ways closer to the GOUT, than the Technicolor prints. No manual adjustments were made to these corrections. These are simply the result of a scientific theory for color fading.
Reel 1:
Reel 2:
