The videos on vimeo are very interesting. What bothers me a bit is that the yellow tinting of the Tatooine shots is removed completely. I’m quite confident that the sky is not meant to look as blue as it does in the restauration…
Well, the yellow tint seems to be very specific to the Technicolor print that Mike is using as a basis, or probably Technicolor prints in general. I developed an algorithm to retrieve the colors from faded prints, and applied it to the raw scan of the SSE, and it shows absolutely no evidence of a pronounced yellow tint, and the Tatooine sky is really quite blue:
