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AwesomeJ
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Toy Story (1995)– 4K 35mm Scan [WIP– Donations Closed For Now!]
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1-Apr-2025, 11:40 PM

Sambarker04 said:

HAttackontheBun said:

Is there going to be an open matte version of this scan?

I recall this film was originally animated at 1.66:1 for European theaters. However, by the time the film came out on LaserDisc, John Lasseter wanted to preserve the film by cropping it to his preferred ratio of 1.77:1. To me, that honestly sucks, considering that ever since the LaserDisc release of The Lion King, Disney would preserve their animated films from the originally animated 1.66:1 ratio, and yet Lasseter think showing the film in true 16:9 is really similar to what DreamWorks did to Shrek.

What’s worse is that the laserdisc versions of Toy Story (both CLV and CAV) crop the film in such a weird way. It’s like they cropped the film in a 1.85 aspect ratio, only to crop it again in a 1.77 aspect ratio, so the picture looks a bit more zoomed-in than it should.