Complicated shot I decided to do for this version, since this was always one of my favorite bits from the workprint. (Music kicks in here suggesting that the Thief is a pawn of destiny.) Nine layers are involved.
The background is from the Miramax DVD, so it's nice and clean. It's been keyframed to match the changing brightness of the workprint.
The Thief is painted out of the frame, then the workprint Thief is composited over this with lumakey.
(The Thief "dissolves" in as he falls, making it seamless.)
The claw hand is added in, and animated to match the workprint. (Upper right of screen.)
Two falling rocks are added in, also animated to match the workprint. (Lower right of screen.)
Also using lumakey, the darker areas of the left side of the screen are pasted in from the workprint, so some of the little extra action (arrows, rocks) taking place in the background is still sort of there, though not super visible.
Black bars are added in at top and bottom.
The witch - the background has been cobbled together from various screen grabs. It's keyframed to match the changing brightness of the shot. The witch is taken from the pan & scan DVD. The widescreen parts (her hands, and the little spotlight at the bottom) are taken from the workprint and added over the dark background with lumakey.
As she walks, the background is keyframed to get brighter and move with her, and gradually this becomes a regular shot with the pan & scan DVD image pasted over the workprint, that you see here. Black bars added on the left.