Eric's point is that perhaps the transfer rights were sold to the Lugosi estate/Navarre without them knowing the source of it. Quite possible, since Lumivision sold their tapes to another company when they folded and didn't tell them about the third-person rights. Subsiquently, many people got...
The color was in Cinecolor, a two strip process. Red and blue. It's actually Bela's second color film. The first was FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN with Olesen and Johnson, in which he played a stage magician. I think there's actually another one, but the name escapes me.
As Cinecolor does not fade, I assume Mr. Furmanek had to do nothing to "recreate" color. In context of what he wrote, he was mentioning that he did his best to recreate on video what you see on film.
He's saying that he went to great lengths to reproduce on video what you would see on film. Unfortunately, this sort of care in video transfer rarely happens, and 2 color elements are rarely displayed in the palette that they were printed in. It's a shame that Roan ripped you off, Bob. It...