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I found it interesting - and possibly controversial - to notice that Lowry’s restoration team have been added to the film end credits for the new DVD release. I suspect many of the names listed weren’t even born in 1942!

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Yeah and?

Just cause some one isn't over 60 years old makes them less qualified to do film restoration?
(1942-2005 = 63)

I hope not, if anything most of the people I know in the industry are 25-35 years of age.

And what does Bambi have to do with Star Wars Preservation?
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Originally posted by: Moth3r
I found it interesting - and possibly controversial - to notice that Lowry's restoration team have been added to the film end credits for the new DVD release. I suspect many of the names listed weren't even born in 1942!


Well, if you look at the credits at the end of the Star Wars Special Editions (and I'm sure the New Original Trilogy) there were restoration credits. (There, I made it on topic.)

This also happened on the My Fair Lady and Gone With the Wind.
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Bambi was restored already for the last release in the mid 90's. What else could be done to it, besides scrubbing it into a grainless digital image that looks nothing like it did originally?
After what Disney has done to some of their other classics for DVD, I'm thankful I have the laserdiscs.
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To further bring this into topic, is the Bambi release integrating the restoration credits into the original credits? Or are they tacked on as a supplement at the end. JC did this with T2 and I think it is a much wiser approach than changing the credits. Special restoration credits are very vital to show the hard work that restorationists put into their work, but by their very nature they should appear as a supplement.

The SWSEs, by comparison, changed the credits substantially, just as they changed the films.
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Originally posted by: mageguru
Just cause some one isn't over 60 years old makes them less qualified to do film restoration? No, you miss the point. Should a technician at Lowry Digital who's pretty handy with a mac - but had nothing whatsoever to do with the original film - be given equal credit as one of the original animators? I'm not saying one way or the other, just thought it would make an interesting discussion.
Originally posted by: mageguru
And what does Bambi have to do with Star Wars Preservation? I was just wondering if the Star Wars Legacy Edition was to have "Restored by Mike Verta" in the credits!
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
...is the Bambi release integrating the restoration credits into the original credits? Or are they tacked on as a supplement at the end.
You have a point there, on second thoughts I think what I saw probably was tacked on to the end - it finishes with "The End/A Walt Disney Production" then the restoration team credits appear immediately after that, but they are in the same style as the opening credits so I assumed that they were inserted into the original.
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Special restoration credits are very vital to show the hard work that restorationists put into their work, but by their very nature they should appear as a supplement.

The SWSEs, by comparison, changed the credits substantially, just as they changed the films.
Yep, 100% agree with you there.

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