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Post #680453

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monks19
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Info: Recommended Editions of Disney Animated (and Partially Animated) Features
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Date created
28-Dec-2013, 9:45 PM

Absolutely agreed with falcon on all he said about Fantasia. Let's wait for a better opportunity (like a complete pre-1950 release print, in which the Pastoral will be there complete). For SW, that was the case. Nothing of the original opening and ending cards are known to exist. Scott McQueen, the responsible of the restauration for 2003 DVD, supervised the recreation based on some foreing prints stock (apparently). The result was presented as a bonus on 2003 DVD and spliced directly on the film for the Blu Ray. It's the only film (pre-Fantasia) that had the credits fully reconstructed with all the original elements/informations from it's first release. The other films (Bambi, Pinocchio, Dumbo) are all still fitted with the re-release (1950's) remade credits (althought Disney added somehow to them a fake RKO logo. What a cheap trick). Some, like Cinderella, had their title cards remade completely because they needed to preserve some continuity with the ones they needed to re-use for the bonus features on dvd & BR. You can tell very easily that they were digitally remade by seeing them.

So here we are... Long live pirates, bootleggers & angry fans...