The important thing about the CAPS films is that some early home video releases were struck from a film print.
Back in the early technicolor days, when they were doing test prints to get their colors to look right, which was known to be different from the actual paint colors, that’s preferred.
I don’t think the same is true of the digitally sourced animation. In those cases a raw digital transfer is probably expected to be more accurate (if less warm).
Good info there, nesboy43.
Thanks for the information. I think the colors of Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and Aladdin look much nicer on the 35mm sourced scans. I’m not sure about artist intent, but for me personally it’s preferred.
For whatever reason the film print makes the movies seem more natural to me than a direct digital transfer. I feel the same way about the Toy Story LD, which looks more real and less like a computer game.
Do we know when Caps films went from being 35mm to digital for home video? I can’t imagine Tarzan is 35mm sourced.