At the moment I'm watching Disney's Aladdin for the first time in years - revisiting some very happy memories from my childhood. A great Disney film, and they rip off The Thief and the Cobbler a lot more times than I ever noticed before - even down to some Zigzag/Jafar dialogue. (Also an unusual amount of lead animators who also worked with Richard on The Thief and elsewhere, but you knew that.) I'm taking notes, because if I can clear the hard drive space this would make a fun comparison video.

I've clearly been spoiled by The Thief, because as good as Disney-quality animation was at this point (and it is quite good) you can see where corners were cut, or where they couldn't quite get the figures to move through 3D space the same way the flying carpet did. Still, a nice study in human anatomy courtesy of Glen Keane on Aladdin and whoever did Jasmine.

At the time, I recall Disney promoting the film by quoting a critic who said "There ain't never been a film like this."

Major irony.

CURRENT STATUS OF THIS CUT - I'm expecting the Boniface (Faceman) restorations of the Miramax cut and other material to come in in the next couple days, hopefully he sent them already yesterday.

When those come in I'll replace all the Miramax material with this restored version.

If Erik's emule version of the workprint turns out to be the best one, I'll go ahead with that and not wait for Stanch's copy.