Synnöve said:
I don’t recall the station scenes as being that white, or with that high a gamma.
I’m not using a calibrated monitor (in fact, this laptop LCD changes the picture as I move my head) so just consider my proof-of-concept adjustments as a general direction towards color correction. There’s much more on this over at captainsolo’s thread Cinerama 70mm 2001 preservation. Is it possible?, including this on-the-set shot from the must-have Taschen book The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” (plenty of it’s awesome pictures all over the Internet – definitely worth searching out):