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While I was waiting for Trist’s 35mm preservation, I decided to do my own take, mostly for anyone who preferred to see the theatrical reconstruction of the digitally sourced version. I originally wanted to start this once I got my hands on those lost pre-2009 HDTV broadcasts, but then I was like, never mind, I’ll do it now.
Here are the video sources I used in this preservation:
- 2010 UK BD (main source)
- 2011 UK 3D BD (for restoring the original theatrical shots that had problems in the digital re-render back in 2000. Though I had to zoom them in to mask out the dynamic floating windows, which was used in many 3D films at the time.)
- 2005 UK 10th Anniversary Edition DVD (for the Disney logos at the beginning and end; upscaled using Topaz Video AI)
- Geri’s Game (Pixar Short Films Collection Vol 1. UK BD) (for the closing Pixar logo)
- 2005 UMD Video (for closing credits; upscaled using Topaz Video AI)
And for the audio, I made my own lossless theatrical reconstruction back in January, though the original file I made ended up being lost due to my iMac’s HD being corrupted, but thankfully I was able to save it through an MKV file where it syncs with the UHD footage, though I edited out the ending so it uses audio from the closing Disney and Pixar logos used from post-2009 prints to sync the UHD footage, so I decided to do it again by cutting out the modern closing logos and brought back the original closing logos from scratch as I originally did.
For this audio reconstruction, I originally made this since the DTS LaserDisc release has ALOT of problems with the audio. At first I thought that noogai3 (the person that did a direct capture of the raw DTS audio stream) might have problems he didn’t recognise with the wav2dts software he used to decode the raw WAV capture, but since the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, DTS and THX logos sound fine, it seems that there was a problem with processing the raw analog 6-track audio reels to DTS. I would explain the problems, but I already did, so here’s my quote from LDDB.com
“…the entire film would have the right channel 8.5dB lower than the rest, resulting in some confusion in your speaker. Even worse is that on side 1, you can hear constant buzzing on the right channel, and on side 2, there is constant [VHS-like] noise on the same channel. I should also mention that even though the right channel would be at -8.5dB for a while, it would start to increase a decibel after the “Strange Things” song, possibly due to a reaction it had after Rex’s loud roar during the song. Then, between Woody getting up coughing after feeling dizzy from the Pizza Planet truck with a plastic cup on his head, to the Pizza Planet animatronic bot saying “You are—“, the right channel would be silent for a while, as originally on theatrical prints, this is a sign that reel 2 ends and reel 3 begins, and it seems like the right channel couldn’t handle the transition. Speaking of transition, there was also a brief audio stutter as the Pizza Planet doors open, possibly done as a way to make sure that the whole audio syncs perfectly to the movie. Then, just as side 1 ends, the right channel becomes silent again, just as Buzz is about to say, “I set my laser from stun…to kill.””
In fact, once I bought myself a copy of the DTS LaserDisc and tested it out, the problems were also there. So what I did was that I used the noogai’s AC3RF capture from the Deluxe CAV LaserDisc to fix the right channel’s volume and to use it to fix the problems that the DTS audio had, including patching into the missing segments as well as noise reducing the constant noises from that same channel, and then save it into a 24-bit 6-channel WAV file and then convert it into DTS-HD MA.
And speaking of audio, here are the audio tracks that you’ll expect once you receive the link:
- English (Original Theatrical Reconstruction v1.1) (DTS-HD MA 5.1)
- English (Audio Decription) (2005 UK DVD) (Dolby Surround 2.0)
- Isolated Sound Effects Track (R1 UTB DVD) (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Commentary (Deluxe CAV LaserDisc) (FLAC 1.0)
- Commentary (R1 UTB DVD) (Dolby Digital 2.0) (Same as the CAV LD, but higher quality, is in stereo, but references to LaserDisc have been cut out)
- English (Workprint Audio; Partial) (Unknown VHS Source) (Dolby Digital 1.0)
- Audience Reaction (CAM Bootleg VHS) (Dolby Digital 1.0) (I wanted to include this since I was influenced by Cinemassacre when they included an audience reaction track on the Blu-ray release of Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie)
- Danish (2000 UK DVD) (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- French (Canada) (R1 UTB DVD) (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Greek (2000 UK DVD) (Dolby Surround 2.0)
- Hebrew (2000 UK DVD) (Dolby Surround 2.0)
- Hindi (2010 UK BD) (Dolby Digital 1.0) (patched to include audio from the original theatrical logos)
- Norwegian (2000 UK DVD) (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (2000 R4 Latin American DVD; DVDR Arakawasam) (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Russian (Unknown VHS Source; originally from “Istorija.Igrushek.1995.DUAL.DVDRip.XviD.AC3.-HQ-ViDEO”) (Dolby Digital 1.0) (isolated the center channel of the Russian 5.1 track, pitch corrected, and changed the credits medley to match the quality of the dub’s audio, since the original Russian track made for this rip just used a lower quality version of the English version’s medley)
- Spanish (Latin America) (R1 2000 Standalone DVD) (Dolby Digital 5.1)
I mainly only want to include audio that uses the original 1995 5.1 mix or Dolby Surround downmixes to recreate the original theatrical experience. That includes post-2005 releases that use foreign dubs of the film that still use the original mix instead of the new 6.1 matrixed remix made specifically for the 10th Anniversary DVD (and later the 3D re-release and Blu-ray release). The 2010 UK BD does have foreign tracks that used the original mix. These are the Hungarian, Hindi and Flemish dubs, even though I already included Hindi in there since it seems Disney used an old bilingual Hindi/English VHS transfer, since the Hindi audio is only playing on the left channel, as well as the noise. But I decided not to include Hungarian and Flemish since, for Hungarian, it was only a Dolby Pro Logic upmix to 5.1 EX of the original Dolby Surround mix while using the LFE channel from the 2005 mix, so the best bet is to find a pre-2005 copy that uses the original Hungarian Dolby Surround mix, and for Flemish, since this is Dutch for the speaking people of Belgium, I thought it would make sense to also include Dutch in there, but the BD uses the 2005 mix, so I’ll have to wait until I grab a DVD copy with the original Dutch and Flemish mixes.
And for subtitles:
- English (2000 UK DVD)
- English (SDH (White; 2000 R4 Latin American DVD; DVDR Arakawasam))
- English (SDH (White; 2000 UK DVD))
- English (SDH (Yellow; R1 UTB DVD))
- Danish (2000 UK DVD)
- Greek (2000 UK DVD)
- Norwegian (2000 UK DVD)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (2000 R4 Latin American DVD; DVDR Arakawasam)
- Spanish (Latin America) (2000 R4 Latin American DVD; DVDR Arakawasam)
- English (Closed Captions; R1 UTB DVD)
All, except the CC, are in VobSub. The CC is in SRT format.
Of course, it will be updated once I include more foreign dubs and subtitles from the pre-2005 DVD releases, as well as foreign dubs that are exclusive to TV and VHS, which, of course, could be extremely rare to find.
If any of you have those rare releases, feel free to PM me so I can include them in the next update.
And of course, make sure to PM me if you want the link to my preservation.