Spoilers TOS: Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry Review Thread

[Therin of Andor]

Near as I can figure out, there's almost no rhyme or reason to how they color-coded the revisions...

The colour order is stated in "The Making of...", but also noting that they had to rotate through a second time.

 

[Firebird]

The colour order is stated in "The Making of...", but also noting that they had to rotate through a second time.

I found this key paragraph in the book, which gives the impression Sackett is just naming the standard colors used, but that they just picked a color as pages were revised. Indeed, ALL of the August revision pages are blue, 8/4, 8/7, 8/8, 815, etc, all the same color. Which is unlike other scripts I’ve seen from around the same period.

Mimeoed pages were arriving after they’d already been shot. The scripts became a multicolored wonder. A note here about the revision pages: scripts are first mimeoed on all white pages. Then, each day a page is revised, a new color is designated — some of the colors sound like a fashion designer’s new fall line-up: blue, pink, yellow, green, goldenrod, salmon, buff, cherry, tan. Star Trek has a generous sprinkling of all colors through goldenrod.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I found this key paragraph in the book, which gives the impression Sackett is just naming the standard colors used, but that they just picked a color as pages were revised. Indeed, ALL of the August revision pages are blue, 8/4, 8/7, 8/8, 815, etc, all the same color. Which is unlike other scripts I’ve seen from around the same period.

Being the same colour just means that page wasn't changed after blue. It's not that every page written on a certain day is the same colour, it's that when a particular page gets revised, it gets the next colour in the queue.

 

[Firebird]

Being the same colour just means that page wasn't changed after blue. It's not that every page written on a certain day is the same colour, it's that when a particular page gets revised, it gets the next colour in the queue.

Ah, I can't believe I never picked up on that. Common practice today is all pages that are revised on a particular date are given the same revision color, rather than tying the color sequence per page.