ok about the color being too bright for some people and the film too grainless: looking at Luke's review captures I think the colors seem to look fine. In fact they don't look as saturated as i'd expected
I'll do the Technicolor color routine again:
TECHNICOLOR films were shot in black and white film through pure color
red green and
blue separation filters.
The Technicolor process has the capacity to RECORD colors way beyond moden color TV colors, about 30-40% more color gamut (or space/area/saturation) than modern NTSC's (SMPTE "C"), PAL's (EBU), or HDTV's (sRGB), color primaries. So Technicolor prints could look as saturated and even more saturaded on certain colors than any DVD/TV presentation today. ok?
About color changes from blonde to redheads or silver to blue, apart from "see above", the path from Technicolor b/w pure color separation negative to interpositives to print dyes to telecine transfer on NTSC primaries photomultiplier tubes to compromised modern NTSC SMPTE "C" color phosphours is a thorny path indeed and by the nature of dyes and color mixing all these things can alter color saturation and hue on their way. Old transfrers usualy have lots of color errors, desaurating, and sometimes boosting, hues in strange and unexpected ways. It's all part of color photography and art. Hopefully with todays more standarized practices, professional displays, and digital, the color we see on the latest transfers are more thruthful to the source.
And another thing: if you're watching Cinderela on a consumer TV chanses are that the TV is bending the colors somewhat, as the TV may not have the exact SMPTE "C" or sRGB or EBU phosphours and it probably has an auto tint or red color push built in. And you probably have the black level way off and you could have the set's white point color temperature set to blue

Also the colors of your walls and lightbulbs influences how you perceive colors on the screen
So mmm better bet to have an idea what's on the discs is to look at captures on a CRT puter monitor set to D65 and black level set to 0
Don't forget to calibrate your PowerDVD or whatever settings too
If the colors still look too bright to you, you can always turn down the color (saturation) control!
And now I'll do the 1.375 Academy/Technicolor negative grain on NTSC DVD thing again:
Academy films shot on Technicolor have 7 times the negative area per picture height than modern Super35 shot films!
For example if you photographed a tight close up of Frodo or Neo or Austin on Super35 the head would be recorded on aproximatedly ONE HUNDRED square millimeters of color film.
If you photographed a tight close up of Cinderella or her stepmother it would be recorded on SEVEN HUNDRED square millimeters of b/w film. 7 to 1 ratio. So putting the two head shots side by side the Cinderella's grain structure would be reduced up to 7 times from its original visibility compared to the Austin Powers grain visibility.
Now we take THAT and shrink it to tiny 500 pixels per picture height NTSC DVD, and the visibility of these grains could be further reduced up by a factor of another 10 to 15 times! Ok?
if all things are being done correctly i mean
Lets do the TV warp a-gaainnnn!
By the way Luke, thanks for the copious in depth DVD features and supplement review again.
And i like the story. is to close to my heart. Ashes to Ashes
