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#1526816
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Info: Toy Story on 35mm, and other early Pixar films for that matter...
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Hi, I’ve just found out that an original 35mm print of Toy Story has ended up in collector’s hands and is being sold on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185700414684

Interesting for sure, but I wouldn’t know the first thing about scanning and restoring a film like this. I wonder if there’s enough interest in the community for such a project. The condition is generally good, except it seems to have shifted pink a little from the pictures.

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#1361952
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Info: Toy Story on 35mm, and other early Pixar films for that matter...
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I just stumbled across this thread, and it’s never dawned on me that the film master represented a unique version of the film. My only gripe previously was with the few changes made by the re-rendered version of the film in 2010. To which I will re-iterate: the worst part is the new Disney logo that clips out part of the original film. Then there’s little animation errors. One that I found on my own is that they swapped out the textures for Janie so her dress will randomly change colors in one scene (another example of color grading as well):


And it’s also a different experience when the models are in such crisp high resolution as they’ve never been before, but the textures are now noticeably low res. That one’s a little more of a nitpick, though.

Originally, I just wanted to see the original theatrical render of the film on Blu-Ray. The original resolution was just a touch more than DVD could handle, and we never got a Blu-Ray release of that original version before it was replaced by the re-render. If I’m correct, the Toy Story 10th Anniversary DVD from 2005 is the best presentation of the original render. Which is why I think it’d probably make the best basis of a complete color grading overhaul since it wouldn’t have those aforementioned issues with the re-render and it would be closer in resolution.

On a related note, the new-ish UHD release of Toy Story in 4K has a notably different grading. To my eyes, it looks closer to the film version, but that might just be me.
https://highdefdiscnews.com/2019/06/06/toy-story-4k-uhd-blu-ray-review/