Thanks! The financial situation is improving, so I’ll remind everyone about Fantasia.

We have TWO prints available to scan:

Kostal print
Tech mono print (Stokowski)

We are currently scanning the Kostal print. It is faded and on Kodak SP stock (so not as badly faded as Kodak Eastman). The picture looks acceptable, and the print is very clean.

The intention with my project is to preserve and release the Kostal version of Fantasia - not the Stokowski version. There is already a separate restoration happening for that version and it will be far better than anything I could do. If we scan Tech mono I would make two releases - one with the image based as much as possible on the Kostal print scan, the other based on Tech mono, and both with the Kostal soundtrack.

There is not enough funding right now to do the Tech mono print - but if I get enough interest and donations I’ll do it. I have an 8 minute preview scan of the Tech mono print, so here are some comparisons (Kostal print on top, Tech mono print below):

So a few things about the Tech mono print. Firstly unlike poita’s print, this is a FLAT print there is no Superscope image compression. The Superscope version is a mess and as poita described it “horror show”! The print is also in very good condition and clean, so we’ll get a very nice quality scan from it. As you can see it looks quite different to the Kostal print, and would give us a second version to release video-wise. Unfortunately it does have arc burn where the image in the centre is faded/brighter than it should be - however it’s not too bad and when given a correct theatrical crop it won’t be there, it’ll only be visible in the full open-matte version. I doubt we’ll ever see another Tech print that is this good to scan, so if you guys are interested speak up now or we’ll have to pass on it!