Sleeping Beauty’s 1997 Laserdisc is the digitally restored one with rotoscoping. The feature about rotoscoping all the characters out, is a feature on that laserdisc.
So the aggressive restoration it mentioned is from 1997, not 2003. Only the pre 97 versions would be purist, although they are Pan and Scan.
I’ll add a few other corrections:
- The final Diamond/Signature Edition masters were not 4K; restoration work was done at 2K (the scans they were derived from, however, were 4K)
- Are we sure that the 1993 restoration of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was rotoscoped (using the term “reanimated” is a misnomer)? As far as I’m concerned, the rotoscoping/recomposition method didn’t come into play until the 1997 restoration of Sleeping Beauty
- The Limited Issue DVDs of One Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Little Mermaid were released in 1999, while the Gold Classic Collection DVDs for The Three Caballeros, Mary Poppins, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound, and The Rescuers Down Under, the individual release of the 60th Anniversary Edition of Fantasia, and the 2-Disc Collector’s Edition of Tarzan were all released in 2000 - the initial guide erroneously gives them a release year of 2001
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians was not an open-matte film; its 1961 theatrical pressbook instructs exhibitors to screen it at 1.33:1
- The 45th Anniversary Edition of The Sword in the Stone and the Friendship Edition of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh utilize the same masters as their respective films’ 2001 and 2002 DVDs, albeit with different encodes/bitrates
- “The audio [for Many Adventures’ Blu-ray] is supposed to be good” is laughable, as the 1996 VHS and LaserDisc both have a much wider and incredibly robust stereo mix that sounds infinitely better than that film’s 5.1 remix
- There was no DTS version of the Limited Issue DVD of The Little Mermaid