So a Japanese DVD was finally obtained, and it was largely a disappointment.
It is really a weird thing. The intros are just like what we wanted. The shortened intros just like the laserdisc. But the animation is the same as the USA DVD! What the hell?
And not that it has much of an impact on us, but to boot the English track of the DVD doesn’t have any narration. This really seems like more of a bootleg than an official release (and it isn’t a bootleg).
So sadly this won’t help us for the main thing we wanted. To make the restored laserdisc edition even better.
But it helps us in another way. We want to do a 2000 US DVD release with the shortened Deems intro, uncensored Pastoral, and Fantasound. So the NTSC intros here will at least be useful for that.
Can you take a photo of the package and disc, please?