Awesome to see a project for the original Smurfs movie! I'm a big fan of everything Smurfs prior to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons (the comics, the records, the PVC figurines)...they were dumbed-down a lot for the cartoons and pretty much everything else since.
GoboFraggle1983 said:
Also, does anybody have the Televista DVD of this film from 2008?
I do in fact have this! It is most definitely cropped top and bottom, and has a pretty rough transfer of the film. Definitely watchable, and at the time it was the best available. I haven't bought the 2011 DVD, hoping (probably in vain) that a US Blu-ray might appear. You mentioned you were working from the 2011 DVD. What about the UK Blu-ray? I've pondered getting it, assuming it is actually that much better quality than the DVD.
skoal said:
For other Smurf fans:
Les aventures des Schtroumpfs (1965)
I am really, really hoping someday these early films show up. This posting to YouTube was the first time I'd seen so much as a scrap of footage from them.
--SKot