Solution for fixing color on MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1 Viewer)

[Patrick McCart]

For those who own the House of Wax/Mystery of the Wax Museum DVD, I think I figured a way to correct the color:

For those using PowerDVD or other DVD-ROM programs...

Turn the Color2 setting all the way to yellow (-32).

For others:

Adjust the yellow-blue balance so that the setting to yellow.

Here's is a demo:



I'm not sure if this is 100% accurate, but it does seem to be a little bit more correct. Comments are welcomed. (American Cinematographer frame from www.widescreenmuseum.com)

 

[Jim Peavy]

I wasn't aware there was anything wrong with the color--?

 

[Larry Sutliff]

Jim,
I believe that the new transfer has juiced up the color, and even included color that was not available to the old 2-Strip Technicolor spectrum. The old laserdisc is more accurate.

But I happen to prefer the DVD. It just looks so filmlike in every other way, so I'm not upset with the tweaking.

 

[Jim Peavy]

I do remember noticing how neon-bright some of the colors seemed when I watched the DVD and wondering if they were accurate. Though, after seeing the beginning on TCM a month ago or so, the colors seemed the same as on the DVD.

Still, as basically a supplement on the House of Wax disc, I can't imagine they did too much to this.

Patrick's screen grab of the "correct" version looks like it's from American Cinematographer magazine. If so, 4 color printing is notorious for being all over the spectrum reproduction wise, so this would seem hardly to be clarification to me.