Spock with red makeup

[Captain Robert April]

I don't have the book in front of me, but I think the Solow/Justman book mentions an incident of color correction regarding Spock which mirrored the green makeup issue.

There was a story about them putting Brent Spiner in a rainbow of face colours to see how they'd photograph, and also how each colour would appear on b/w TV. But I don't recall Nimoy photos getting colour corrected by the lab; that was Majel in green (and they also tried some Spock-like makeup on her as Number One).

The kicker to the Data story is that after doing all these multiple color tests for Data, they bring in Roddenberry, so he can make the final choice. The first one to come up is the whitish-gold we all know and love, GR says, "That one," and leaves the screening room without even bothering with the umpteen other tests they did.

 

[Maurice]

^^^Sometimes you just know it when you see it.

 

[amasnic]

It's like when you see a colorized Herman Munster. just ain't right!

 

[JoeD80]

I think we're starting to mix stories.

The bit with the color mixers "fixing" things was the green makeup tests, with Majel standing in for Susan Oliver.

I don't have the book in front of me, but I think the Solow/Justman book mentions an incident of color correction regarding Spock which mirrored the green makeup issue.

I just looked through it (via the index) and found nothing on the subject.

IIRC, the reference in the book to someone trying to "fix" the yellow was referring to the finished film of an episode, not a makeup test.

 

[Captain Robert April]

I think that was more of a problem with local stations mucking up the color mix when they aired the episodes in syndication (which also had the effect of making those command uniforms look even more gold than they actually were).