nirbateman

The '08 colors aren't wrong, in fact.

There was a discussion in which people who have seen the original Technicolor prints said that the colors match the BD, and in fact, most video versions were sourced from Eastman prints.

I'll have the featurette uploaded later today under the "Preservation Discussion" thread.

I have the Snow White DVD which has a restoration featurette that touches on the 1993 restoration.

If anyone's interested, I'll post it to the group.

The BD is the same master as the Platinum, only sharper.

Same DNR, same color changes...

I believe poita won a 35mm IB print, so it could be.

Yeah, I saw those, it is the same release, but packed with other IDDK titles.

@ Andrea, I'm sure another preservation of the LD will be most welcome by many.

Italy does have a very illustrious dubbing legacy, but as far as Disney are concerned, I'm not a fan of the translation of the songs in the newer dubs, as they seem to prefer meaning over rhyming and rhythm.

The voices are great, though.

The Russians used to have a very rich bootleg culture, after the fall of communism in 1991, films from the west that were only distributed on a very limited basis (Think China, but more relaxed) were now more readily available, but not through official channels.

The Cinderella looks like it is a LD rip, but a poorly made one, and has been transferred quickly with a Russian Goblin translation (One man reading all the parts with the original audio in the background, like the Polish Lektor)

MySpleen doesn't allow Disney, so that narrows it down...

@ww12345, I second that, some pictures of the IB would be great.

A 16mm of Pinocchio cropped up: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pinocchio-1940-Walt-Disney-16mm-Animated-Sound-Film-Classic-/171068528785?pt=US_Film&hash=item27d47a9891

It seems to have turned a bit to the red side, but the color seems good otherwise.

I can't find the SB 35mm anymore, it must have been sold.

Did any of you win it?

International Ebay's also have some 35's, I'm trying to use the translated name, it might yield some results.

I'm trying UK, Italy, France and Germany.

Do you know of any more?

Also, best of luck getting and preserving SB and Cinderella, poita!

Lady and the Tramp has been sold: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=290934599511" target="_blank" title="offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=290934599511http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=290934599511">http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=290934599511http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=290934599511

Also found these:

Dumbo, 16mm from the UK: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dumbo-1941-16mm-Disney-Feature-2200-Spool-Colour-Optical-Sound-/330942611050?pt=UK_Films_Film_Stock&hash=item4d0db77e6a

Fantasia, 35mm Eastman stock of the 1982 re-issue: http://www.ebay.com/itm/FANTASIA-1982-reissue-35mm-feature-Disney-with-Magnetic-soundtrack-/400516832977?pt=US_Film&hash=item5d40a9ded1

I saw that someone has made a bid on AIW, so maybe he'll go for lending, but LATT, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella are yet to be bidded on.

If he doesn't sell, perhaps he'll do another auction with a lower price.

There's a 35 mm IB print of Cinderella offered here!!!!:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CINDERELLA-1950-IB-TECHNICOLOR-35MM-PRINT-BELOVED-ANIMATED-CLASSIC-/290936723820?pt=US_Film&hash=item43bd2e196c

Same guy is also selling Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp and Alice in Wonderland.

Crossing fingers and praying these fall to the right hands...

I'm so glad to see others as devoted to the idea of the OTV's as I am :)

However, there is still the question of sharing the eventual preservations, I'll be happy to hear suggestions.

I would say that a private forum would be best, as it would also allow others to share bits that are needed to make full preservations possible.

For example, with BATB, the remastered soundtrack is fantastic, especially in DTS, but the fanfare is the new diamond edition one, so if a member has the DVD of Aladdin, he/she could extract the classic fanfare from it in 5.1, and it could be edited by another member to sync to the finished video.

I could use phpbb.com, but I am not tech savvy enough.

BTW, I have an HDTV WoWow version of Aladdin in 1080p, and I think it serves as a compromise between the low resolution DVD and the overly matted BD, as it is only matted to 1.78:1 and has been edited, IVTC'd and converted to 25 FPS by someone else to fit the PAL DVD soundtrack. If I can have ADigitalMan's restored soundtrack, I could simply merge it with the HDTV source, and change the framerate of the video if necessary.

@ Molly, I think the TLD LD is also zoomed in, as can be seen in this comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j63-qTiwiG8

The colors are better though.

@ Andrea, I think that the individual who commented about the Cinderella LD was referring to the first restoration, which as I read somewhere, had a better eye for detail.

Image samples and discussion here: http://www.dvdizzy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16200&sid=38dddb43a89cc548d1d5581111513307&start=20

The video has not been re-encoded, but remuxed.

The audio was exported with the AC3 codec in 384 KBPS, which is the bit rate used on the DVD, so it probably was re-encoded, but it does sound a lot better than the lossy stereo originally used.

As far as sharing goes, using dlc is an option, but how is the dlc file to reach everyone as we can't share it on this site?

At first I thought of an invite based forum, similar to Myspleen but with links, instead of torrents, if anyone has the know how to create such a site.

The re-destruction of the castle isn't on the DVD track, so yeah, it's pretty accurate.

It's not a disc, but a MKV file, with the video remuxed from the disc, and the sound added from the DVD.

I tried to do the same thing with  the DTS track from the Bluray, but there was a sync issue somewhere which I couldn't fix.

I used audacity, which is a very simple tool, merely to cut the Diamond edition opening and add the original fanfare and hoped for the best, and it worked.

BTW, how should I share it? Myspleen doesn't allow Disney, and while I could upload to a service like Sendspace, how should the links be spread, other than PM'ing?

Same goes for all preservations.

Great thread Doctor M, but I do have to agree with The Aluminum Falcon about BATB.

The platinum edition's colors are very bland compared with the LD, and it is riddled with compression artifacts due to all 3 versions being crammed on one DVD.

I do have Molly's first preservation and have synched it to the diamond DVD 5.1 soundtrack if anyone's interested.

I have seen both, and while the detail is better than the Dtheater version, it was missing a part of the opening credits, and it really could use some black bars in a few scenes (The ending with Simon comes to mind).

Yes, that's the one.

While I don't have the LD itself, Molly uploaded a rip to TPB, it has 4 dvd's with the making of documentary on the fourth, and I retained it to be uploaded.

If you'd like, I can send it over.

And here is roughly the same frame from the bluray.

The funny thing is, that although it is blurred, you can clearly see Jessica's features and hair.