I have three 35mm trailers for Raiders, two from 1981 and one from the July 1982 re-release. The bar scene colors in all three trailers support the cooler color timing of the LPP. Each of the trailers is slightly different, and none of them have the exact frames we’ve been looking at (and I didn’t grab identical frames from each one), but clearly the whole scene was originally a lot less red than we are used to:
Trailer 1 (1981):
Trailer 2 (1982):
Trailer 3: (1981)
LPP (balanced - not matched - using Dre’s Color restoration tool) :
LPP as released:
WOWOW:
JEDIT: One more just for fun: WOWOW balanced - not matched - using Dre’s Color restoration tool):
Looking at all of those screenshots from trailers and the print and kind of averaging them out in my mind, it seems to me that the correct timing is pretty naturalistic, not too warm but not too cool. I think if one were to correct Indy’s hat to be the correct shade of brown (sable is I believe what Herbert Johnson calls it) and his shirt to be the correct shade of grey, then the timing of the scene would be pretty much correct. The walls seem to be a pretty neutral shade judging from the print and trailers. I think this particular print may be a bit on the blue side, but should not be nearly as warm as the DVD and WOWOW would have you believe.
Obviously this is all speculation and contrary to the goal of the project, which is to match THIS print. But dang I wish we had more prints to compare and I wish I had the time to take a crack at fiddling with the colors on this film.