I suspect you have a print that was removed from a "Technicolor" cartridge...it was a cassette system was partly used in restaurants, especially pizza parlors, so an endless stream of old comedies would animate the walls as one indulged in a meal of pepperoni with extra cheese. My recall is that, at one time, color stock was actually a cheaper way to print than black and white film. This was supposedly owing to the Hunt Brothers and their speculative fun in the silver market, which drove the price of silver, and black and white films, sky high. I had several such prints as yours and they were more than annoying to me. I still have a print of KING CREOLE printed on color stock but that has shifted to a more tolerable "sepia" tone, rather than red.
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