This is so beautiful!! Thank you for sharing
A quick preview, many thanks to the person scanning for me.
I found the 16mm on a torrent site. While I think the colors could use some work, I love being able to see the grain and detail so much more than the BBC DVD. It's such a beautiful work of art.
I'm so happy that you guys all keep this film alive when Disney will never give it to us. I found this forum close to 10 years ago when my grandmother mentioned seeing the film in her younger days and wanted to know why it wasn't available. These HD transfers give me hope. Some of the stills I've seen blow away the BBC broadcast (the version I have).
poita said:
I can get Dumbo for around a grand or so if we ever wanted to do it.
I would love to see this one as well. You guys are doing the lord's work lol
It's amazing how much more detail you can see in this scan than the bluray. Shameful Disney
An HD transfer of this would be to die for. I still watch the BBC broadcast of the film from time to time. I love it. Thanks to all who did work on that many years ago :)
However, I am still hopeful that they are preserving the film for an eventual release. It's more a glimmer of hope than we've seen thus far. Eventually this film will become public domain, will it not? Isn't that what happened in Japan with the Laserdisc releases?
Disney’s annual shareholder meeting was held this year on March 23rd in Salt Lake City, Utah. Once again, Disney CEO Robert Iger has dismissed the possibility of releasing Song of the South on DVD. Since 2006, shareholders have annually raised the question at every shareholder meeting. In 2006 and 2007, Iger assured shareholders that they were taking another look at the film due to the “numerous requests” they received. By 2008, however, his tone began to change, and by 2010, he was calling the movie “antiquated” and “fairly offensive”. And now, for 2011′s response—shareholder Matthew Hansen was able to squeeze in the meeting’s final Q&A question:
Hansen: My name is Matthew Hansen; I’m a shareholder here locally. This year is a large anniversary for one of Disney’s classic films. Disney restoration team artistic supervisor Dave Bossert recently said, ‘There’s been a lot of internal discussion about it, and at some point we’re going to do something about it. I don’t know when, but we will. We want people to see it because we realize it’s a big piece of company history and we want to do it the right way.’ With this year being the 65th anniversary of Song of the South, I was wondering when we might see that. [Applause]
Iger: [laughs] We almost got through the meeting! I thought you were going to say it’s the 60th anniversary of Peter Pan, I was kind of hoping for that. I said last year at our shareholder’s meeting that I had watched Song of the South again and, even though we’ve considered from time to time bringing it back, I didn’t think it was the right thing for the company to do. It was made in a different time. Admittedly you could use that as context, but I just felt that there are elements to the film, while it was a relatively good film, that wouldn’t necessarily sit right or feel right to a number of people today. And, just felt that it wouldn’t be in the best interest of our shareholders to bring it back, even though there would be some financial gain. Sometimes you make sacrifices on the financial side to do what you believe is right and that’s an example of that.
Hansen: Would it be possible to have, kind of how they have the Disney exclusive videos that aren’t available in stores?
Iger: I just don’t feel that it’s right for us to use company resources to make it available, whether it’s wide or whether it’s narrow… narrowly available. It’s a strong belief that I have— consulted with other top executives of the company. They all agreed, and I think, just remember it as it was, and don’t expect to see it again for… at least for awhile, if ever.
Doctor M said:
Um, wow. Just wow.
Warner DMCA'd my mediafire account for the two edited clips.
I don't know whether to challenge them on principle or let it drop since they were old test clips I should have deleted anyway.
The color correction you did on those scenes looks really fantastic to my eyes. Shame Warner doesn't have better things to do with their time...
Those caps look really vibrant. Love the colors. From what I remember, I don't even think the color was that vibrant in the BBC broadcast?
I wasn't banned...I just couldn't remember my login information. But alas, I give this ridiculous place a rest
dark_jedi said:
Good luck on your search, doubt anyone here is going to help you.
Suddenly this feels like elementary school but thanks for your doubt. I don't get it... *rolls eyes*
So then it's the worse of two evils, I suppose. Illegal is illegal in my eyes but if it makes any one feel better to point the finger then by all means go ahead. I just wanted to be able to enjoy this forgotten Disney classic not be condemned for the things I share on ioffer. Keep in mind, that most of what I do on ioffer is TRADING (no charge) with other Cher fans. At any rate, I'm certain someone will eventually be able to share this with me again. It's sad that Disney has kept this film from the fans for so many years....
This is correct. However, the albums are not commercially available on CD and probably never will be....so I offer them to the fans in the highest possible quality for pennies really. After the cost of having the graphics professionally printed and shipping and handling, I just break even. I understand that doesn't make it any more "legal" but...then again it is just as illegal to share SOTS for free...Disney owns the copyright to it. Right? Either way, both things are illegal in the eyes of the law sharing for free or sharing for fee.
*bump* is any one willing to help me? I've had to re-register here having forgotten my old login info (and the email addy I signed up with no longer exists). This is for personal use only. There was some stink here last time I asked for help because I was blindly accused of being a re-seller. I do, in fact, have an ioffer store however, the items being offered are my OWN transfers and restorations of vinyl albums....never any one else's work!!
*bump* is any one willing to help me? I've had to re-register here having forgotten my old login info (and the email addy I signed up with no longer exists). This is for personal use only. There was some stink here last time I asked for help because I was blindly accused of being a re-seller. I do, in fact, have an ioffer store however, the items being offered are my OWN transfers and restorations of vinyl albums....never any one else's work!!