Info Wanted: Back To The Future Theatrical Color Timing?

(Repost from my Fanres post):

Ever since I started my own little “Back To The Future” project back in May, I began researching on the film’s technical aspects, more specifically, the color grading.

I always found the Blu-Ray, DVD and DCP versions very “pink-magenta” looking, similar to how the Star Wars Special Editions looked, creating errors in the film itself, (Marty’s skateboard wheels colors fluctuating from yellow to pink in the Blu-Ray release) I wondered if that was always the case or was it the fault of the people who decided to DNR and “Edge Enhance” during the digital processing of the movie for home releases.

I recently came to the FanRes forums* after finding out about the “Open Matte upscale” done by PDB back in 2015 and seeing his color regrade of the film, noting about how “technicolor” it looked with pretty vivid colors and natural skin tones, so I’m not sure if thats a pretty close regrade or something more revisionist.

Since there are little to no color references to the film aside from the BBC TV broadcast, which is noted to have a green tint, I was wondering if a “theatrical regrade” of the film can be done, aside from images of 35mm film strips on eBay, but I am also not sure if that is a reliable color source.

Well there is a 4K remaster being done by Universal so I’d expect that to be more correct