Languages: English (Dolby 5.1), French (Dolby 5.1)
You can tell that we’re entering a new millenium when the cereal giveaway has been upgraded from some cheap plastic doo-hickey (that can’t be put together or breaks upon contact) to a bonafide flick on a DVD. Yes, this DVD, “The Thief And The Cobbler” can be found in specially marked boxes of Froot Loops (425g box, no variety packs).
I crap you negative. There’s no mistake. Canadian Alliance Atlantis and Kellogg’s have exclusively presented four different movies in four different cereals. You can find “Air Bud” in Frosted Flakes, “Air Bud: Golden Receiver” in Corn Pops, and “Babar: King Of The Elephants” in Rice Krispies. All films are presented in a standard aspect ratio of 1.33:1. This one was originally a widescreen film, is also known as “Arabian Knight”, and has Dolby Digital 5.1. Can you believe it?
~ Kyle Milligan
Clicky Clicky, this'll be gone from the cache soon!
Talking about Raggedy Ann & Andy on Myspleen:
I'd be curious what segments in this film Richard Williams actually animated.
I know that he did Raggedy Andy singing "No Girl's Toy" - which is a really great piece of animation done on ones with a moving camera, and looks out of place with the awful animation seen in a lot of this film!
On close inspection, you can actually see that some guy was manning the pan & scan machine to crush the widescreen image for the titles - it subtly crushes inward as the titles start, in a way that's done by hand. Then he dials it back out again.
It actually becomes perfectly anamorphic for the titles only. (Sigh) If only ...