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A matter of Color.

Perhaps no one cares for the opinion of someone who is colorblind, but to me, the difference between a very yellow green and a very green yellow is almost trivial. That said, in the arts the question of color cannot be divorced from the interaction of material, media and light. If Theiss wanted a specific green, he made some seriously rookie mistakes. Conversely, there seems to have been no rush to correct them. To that end, the color of the uniform is what we see, not what Theiss intended.
 
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Is that NBC-rbg story folklore or can someone supply a source? Whenever kirk is in green wraparound, esp. second-season, with a red and blue shirt in the shot, it sure looks good.
If there literally was such a directive, that specified they should use green, then the green-to-gold material could have been a deliberate choice to get around it. "We gave them their green, but oh look, it photographs as gold."
 
Years ago I asked on the bbs why Theiss -- if he and some ptb wanted green -- didn't see some dailies; buy some new cloth, re-dye, and end up with green appearing on film. The answer I got, and I believe it, was that it was a lot of velour and screen-worthy costumes ain't cheap. I buy that.

But from the quotes above, it seems clear that he and tptb desired green. Also note the S3 polyesters were green and photographed greener. Another piece of evidence for original intent.
 
Also note the S3 polyesters were green and photographed greener. Another piece of evidence for original intent.

Umm they still look gold to me. What are you watching that they looked greener? I'd go with a darker shade of gold, brownish if anything.
 
Years ago I asked on the bbs why Theiss -- if he and some ptb wanted green -- didn't see some dailies; buy some new cloth, re-dye, and end up with green appearing on film. The answer I got, and I believe it, was that it was a lot of velour and screen-worthy costumes ain't cheap. I buy that.

I can believe that, too. And by the time replacement costumes were needed, the yellow shade had grown on them because it really did look good.

But from the quotes above, it seems clear that he and tptb desired green. Also note the S3 polyesters were green and photographed greener. Another piece of evidence for original intent.

If you're watching the remastered TOS episodes, note that CBS Digital chose to shift the color toward green electronically to fix what they thought was the problem of yellow-gold uniforms.
 
Even in my beloved clamshell dvd's the S3 will look greener occasionally.

I just watched a bit of Mudd's Women remastered, very early S1; the shirts were greenish, but skin tones were great. Do you mean CBS changed the color of just the shirts somehow?
 
Ahhh. B5. Gotcha. Never much of a fan for whatever reason although it had some interesting ideas.
 
Even in my beloved clamshell dvd's the S3 will look greener occasionally.

I just watched a bit of Mudd's Women remastered, very early S1; the shirts were greenish, but skin tones were great. Do you mean CBS changed the color of just the shirts somehow?
Thats actually fairly trivial in digital color-correction. You specify a color range you want to change and the software only alters the pixels in that range.
 
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