And yep! That's the exact horrible cover that my copy of The Princess and the Cobbler has. =)
The original video release cover used the same art, but in a better layout, you could see the Thief and alligators better.
EDIT: Oh! Wow, yeah, that poster! That's the best version of that (horrible) artwork I've seen, and that IS Fred Calvert's real typeface. Would love to have that poster.
EDIT EDIT: The most notable thing about that poster is that it still uses the original Williams font for "Cobbler," which would be VERY handy if it could be scanned. I don't remember what font the VHS used but I don't think it was the real one.
It's kinda worth bidding on. I'll do so. I've bought dumb crap for this project before.
Also: really funny, the guy who posted this got his info from IMDB, which thanks to Ogg now lists the original voice cast. So he's posted saying that Sean Connery, Hilary Pritchard and Felix Aylmer are voices in the movie!
If only ...
EDIT EDIT EDIT: I've bid on it, but SHIT, this was a ripoff. The guy is charging 8 bucks for the poster, but 16.50 for SHIPPING. Asshole. Oh well. I spend so you don't have to.
Over at Myspleen, Ghosthost has pointed out that the pan & scan VHS version of Raggedy Ann & Andy that I have is actually slightly compressed horizontally - and should be stretched out slightly.
The opening should have a ratio of 720 x 480, the opening and closing titles stretch out to anamorphic ratio (720 x 414) and the rest of the film has a ratio of about 700 x 480. Pretty close to 4x3, but not quite.
Doing a transfer that respects this would help the film seem less cramped in pan & scan. Of course if you're doing that kind of work on the transfer you'd also convert it to 24p.
Raggedy Ann & Andy doesn't deserve this treatment really -- and I'm way too busy with The Thief to do it - my hard drive is FULL and will remain so for some time ...
But if I ever do a doc about The Thief, I'd definitely include any clips from Raggedy Ann treated thusly. Color corrected to.