Superman's suit is teal during some of the flying sequences
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
ck100 — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 06:20 PM)
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Hendry_William_French — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 05:27 AM)
Yeah, they digitally modified the picture for the new HD TV prints (and I'm assuming the Blu-Ray). I have this movie on DVD, and when I saw this on the movie channel, it looked totally different.
'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP. -
ck100 — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 07:17 AM)
You're right. You'll see the color correction if you compare the video clip below with the picture I posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jxlrFSiLCk&index=7&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqqr5oRdF1uutZjnrX6TrjUd -
Hendry_William_French — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 06:00 PM)
Thanks for the link, dude. Pretty interesting.
I think one comment on that video summed it up:
"I like the clarity the bluray offers but you make an excellent point about how
these bluray transfers are being digitally redone to make them look more modern which is a damn shame. I have to agree that changing the color changes the photography and that's an insult to the cinematographer.
With that said, I still like the reds on here but holy crap, the blues REALLY look green in part IV".
I noticed the Superman IV DVD had a bad transfer when I first got it (the other three DVD's I own of Superman I, II & III all look fine), but I'd still take SIV's DVD picture over the Blu Ray, for the simple fact that it's the natural tint that the director and cinematographer intended. Digitally altering the picture of older films is a huge mistake. They did the same to the Star Wars originals.
You know back before the war broke out I was a saucier in San Antone -
Kryptonian_Zod — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 04:13 AM)
The teal suit was specially designed for the purpose of any flying shots in front of a blue screen. At the time green screen wasn't used, not sure why, perhaps the technology at the time, only processed blue screen colour. The teal Superman costume, meant blue screenshots could be done without his body disappearing on the removal of the blue from the frame.
It wasn't till afterwards in the optical printer, that the teal could be returned to a more blue hue, similar what would be today considered selective colour altering in after effects/photoshop etc.
Superman IV had some of the worst teal flying scenes then the other Superman films, largely due to the films reduced budget, resulting in front projection shots being removed and resorting to using mostly back projection blue screen instead, rather then a mix.
Sadly at the time blue screen removal was a nightmare, and it's more apparent in shots with Lois falling from the building and the blue aura of the key remaining A shot that on a bigger budget would have used front projection like in the first film with the helicopter fall.
In the newer DVD's and Blu-ray some of these teal effects have been cleaned up, but unless you go back to the original blue screen footage and background footage, it's never going to look 100% polished which I think could easily be done with todays technology, especially with colour correction and keying out.
