It’s a shame about the fake added dirt on some of the photo’s but, this about the last of it.
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That sky in the top left photo…
But then the shot here seems to be from the Blu Ray or the 35mm is gone very yellow. The Book was printed in 2008.
This very well may explain why the Blu-Ray is so yellow. Because the first picture in this thread certainly looks right on the 35mm and it has that Blue atmospheric cool tone. Which you can clearly see in the Stone Ball rolling picture.
Belloq stealing the Idol from Indy also seems to have the yellow syndrome in the pictures where others do not.
(Certainly Reel 1 went yellow)
I Think it’s pretty safe to say that their print went yellow. Litemakr’s scan seems to have an issue with magenta and blue mainly… But it does seem that litemakr’s scan is a good if not better reference although like I said it’s not without faults but they are minimal.
Those pictures are mainly on set promo photos, not frame blow-ups from a print, so they aren’t a good reference to the 35mm. They are subject to processing by the photographer, marketing department and book publishers. I have a few examples of frame blow-up from the early 80s I used as a reference, but generally promo pics are not useful.
The shot of Belloq stealing the idol, for example, is not from the film. It is a posed shot taken by a stills photographer using film for a still camera. It was processed after the fact to be brighter and have different color than the 35mm ended up with. The same goes for the shot of Indy with the idol. Both shots were commonly used to promote the film in 1981.
Some of the truck chase shots might be from the film, but most likely from a digital source if the book was published in 2008.
The explanation for the blu-ray being orange/teal is because that was a trendy color scheme for action movies at the time. It tends to make things “pop”. It was an attempt to make the film look more modern and to better match Crystal Skull.