I think there was an innovatory of Dolby A, Dolby SR, and Dolby Digital prints for that movie? The DD prints are for theaters that upgraded to that sound format around Late 1992-1993 when Batman Returns became a success. The same can be said for The Lion King a half-year later since I recalled seeing a former projectionist’s video on the screening for this film (or the comments) stating that the Dolby A, Dolby SR, and SRD prints were struck at the time of King’s release.

Maybe at this point around 1994 or 95, Technicolor (Disney’s go-to), started making film reels that contain both the Dolby Digital and the analog backup tracks for the studio’s movies until 1997 when they started to add SDDS tracks.

By the next year, all three digital formats (Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS) started to be added on to prints as the vast majority of Hollywood studios finally upgraded to these in the response to both the projectionists and the theater owners’ complaints about not getting the full sound experience in auditoriums that don’t have any competing digital sound format and having to resort to either using Dolby SR or running the raw, unfiltered optical track. Also, Dolby Digital was prevalent in overseas markets and it was much easier for Hollywood studios to reuse their domestic prints for English speaking countries like the UK and Australia. (unless the film had to be cut to comply with the censors’ demands). I think Sony Pictures might’ve been the last major studio to fully upgrade to tri-format prints around 1999 or 2000?