skyjedi2005 said:
There is another upcoming re release of cindarella being released on blu ray not sure which version it is going to be.
The blu ray official site does not say , i'm thinking maybe Lowry aka dts digital.
Since the old DVD was the new one prolly will be.
I wish we could ever see the theatrical first issue of fantasia never released on home video anywhere completely uncut not even in japan.
If we could but find Deems Taylor's lost voice-overs...
Molly most animated features are open matte there is more image on the negative even more image area in the hand drawn cels than a 4:3 cropping. Depends on what you find more grievous a 16:9 or 4:3 cropping.
Then can present the entire image by pillarboxing but the one dvd i know they did this on produced less than stellar results Transformers the movie reconstructed. Even rhinos image close to the original negative more cropped than the aforementioned release had unfinished animation showing in the picture because when the movie was shown widescreen in theaters these areas were masked off by the mattes.
Has disney ever had such releases?
They did supposedly have a few movies that were done 4:3 and then widescreened in theaters (Sword in the Stone through Robin Hood plus Fox and the Hound)? But unlike, say, Sailor Moon's movies, which have animation errors in the matte area, these movies are fully animated to 4:3.
As a purist i think both versions the original negative open matte and theatrical widescreen should be available on dvd. This was done on the batman mask of the phantasm dvd release.
I think it depends on whether there are errors masked by the matte or not, whether I'd prefer open-matte or not.
It also reminds me of how funimation released a open matte full frame show like Dragonball Z cropped to 16:9 with dodgy colors, why cannot they seem to get it right.
UGH. I need the damn Dragon Box, and I don't even *care* about Drag On Ball Zzz, but it deserves better than that. >_<
Disney is almost notoriously as bad as George Lucas with the changed dvd versions of their films and the majority of the theatrical releases only being available on an analogue only format like laserdisc is absurd to an insane degree beyond words.
Ugh. THIS.
What i find damn near impossible is to find all the open matte versions of the studio ghibli films released on vhs or dvd worldwide is getting very difficult.
Were they ever released that way? I never saw Laputa fullscreen, not even on VHS.
My brothers fiance has nearly all the animated disney movies on dvd and i was discussing with her one day how stupid i thought that the best way to own these original theatrical versions of the movies was on the deluxe CAV boxsets, from an obsolete analogue format that is interlaced. Kind of how the gout does little justice in approximating the theatrical cuts of star wars from the theaters to a low resolution home video release.
This is why several of the movies NEED to be preserved from laserdisc, as the OTVs are on LD, while the DVDs, if they exist, are butchered.
DVD, and Blu Ray don't come even close to the 35mm film most of the disney movies were released on. People rich enough to have a home theater buy prints off of ebay all the time, though the low fade prints fetch sums reaching the stratosphere most are turning pinkish or are digest 8mm reel versions or 16mm dupes.
What I wouldn't do for a couple Song of the South 35s.
I kind of like the screen captured image molly posted of lion king since you can see the film grain in the image, later most likely removed digitally from the dvd release removing detail. I hate digital scrubbing of an image and recolored by computer on these classics. Since Disney now does pratically everything on the computer now the modern crap they can recolor and ruin all they want.
Lion King was always colored by computer.
If this means an old school photochemical restoration than i am all for it.
xD