Today we seem to be getting an awful lot of film that is artificially coloured or badly restored, and then the people who had this task, then fail to admit to such issues, and claim it as some clever part of the artistic process, for instance the bladerunner restoration was very good but the colour correction for film stock aging was done pretty badly.

here is a snapshot from an opening scene in bladerunner, the greenish looking areas, are the colour of the film as released, the normal areas are how I have colour corrected it through restoration, whos aim was to return the footage to a realistic colour scenario.

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