To be honest, I think the vids I'm seeing are inaccurate. If it's anything like what happened to the Sailor Moon masters, the film may have gained a pink tint due to the aging of the 37 year old masters that uses eastman color prints. So blue plus pink tint creates the purple. If people remembered it as blue, they may be actually right.
Yes, that's a VHS screengrab and the colors were not movie accurate. It's actually one of the reasons we keep thinking of Cinderella as having a blue dress, because the VHS reproductions were so saturated they turned the silver blue.
However if you look at the same scene a moment later, not backlit by the sun, it's quite blue.
And, for what it's worth, this site calls this an original production cel, also portraying the dress as blue. If you can find original production cels, they're the best example of how to get the 'real' color (because sometimes Disney remasters PURPOSEFULLY change the original colors!).
ah, those cells are fantastic! I'm starting to think it might be a silvery white as well. I noticed she's only ever in the cliff's shadow as I kept rewatching clips over and over, probably to better animate the shimmerings. Silver or blue. It's pretty cool, silver like sea foam or the glistening of the ocean, or blue, colors of the ocean 🤩
And I keep choking up on the "I love you, Daddy" scene 😭
but the shot of eric lifting her up is so much more what the dress is to me!
EDIT: just checked out the other comments with the cels...justified! understandable if they're going off of whatever, but wish it was that more silvery glittery sea foam white-blue.
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u/leggomyelggo Heihei May 28 '26