Same film, printed by two different makers...

[Valeyard]

Just finished to watch National Treasure: Book of Secret (note: NEVER SEEN BEFORE, unbelievable! ) and I noted this:

https://i.postimg.cc/J464pKyf/National-T...ecrets.jpg

As you can see, it was printed by Deluxe in US and Canada, and by Technicolor in the rest of the world.

Now, I wonder, can this make a difference? I mean, US (Canada) prints could have different color, contrast etc. compared to others?

Yes they can and that's very normal. Here's a print that's on ebay:



You can see this print was printed off "🔍Internegative #3". What happens is they would make a bunch of internegatives for striking prints and send them off to film labs around the world to strike prints from. Possibly IN1 was the archival IN (if there was an archival IN) and IN2 was the one used to make US print. Also with Star Wars 1977 Technicolor had already ceased making dye-transfer prints in the US at the time:

So the majority of US prints would have been struck locally on Kodak Eastaman filmstock like the recent one on ebay with advanced vinegar syndrome. Some dye transfer prints would have been sent over from the UK and/or Italy though, but that's quite unusual. So you can have different film stocks for the same film - Fuji in the UK and Kodak in the US for example. There are different locally made 🔍film stocks available in other areas as well (including print film) such as Agfa in Germany and Tasma in Russia.

The Dutch prints I think were traditionally UK prints that were re-used in the Netherlands after subtitles were burned-in to the emulsion/dye.