As usual in France, the movie will be available to buy in two separate editions: the single disc release and the 2-Disc Collector's Edition.
The Standart single disc release will include the movie entirely restored with "an image and sound beyond their original brillance":
- All-New Disney Enhanced Home Theater Mix Doly Digital 5.1 Tracks (English, French and Dutch)
- Bonus material:
. Scène coupée commentée : « Les rôles inversés » (4’40’’)
. Musique : clip de la chanson « Bella Notte » interprétée par Steve Tyrell
. Jeu (psychotest) : « Quel chien êtes-vous ? »
. Les coulisses de la production : Le pedigree de Belle (40’)
. Galeries : recherche graphique, création des personnages, story-boards…
Here's the artwork for this single disc release (the same as the US 2-disc one):
The 2-Disc Collector's Edition will include on Disc 1, the same content as in the single disc release, except that it will have a 5.1 DTS track (French only), only available on this set (that will replace the Dutch DD 5.1 of the single disc edition).
Here is the list of the new special bonus features for this set:
DVD 1
. All the features listed below for the single DVD release
. Bonus Preview of the 2nd DVD
DVD 2
. 2 scènes coupées ou abandonnées commentées : « Les rôles inversés » et « L’arrivée du bébé » (13’)
. La musique à travers le clip de la chanson « Bella Notte » par Steve Tyrell
. Un reportage d’introduction à la chanson des siamois et un mini-doc sur la recherche des voix félines (6’)
. 3 jeux : « les chiens Disney », « les chiens et leurs maîtres » et « quel chien êtes-vous ? »
. Les coulisses de la production : Making of en 7 reportages : « Le pedigree de Belle » (54’) comprenant les sections : Retour à Marceline, L’histoire de la Belle et le Clochard, Animation primaire, La chorale canine, Des chiens qui parlent, Art et design, Retour à la maison
. Les story-boards originaux + 4 extraits de l’émission Disneyland (46’) : Présentation, Histoire de chiens, Bande-annonce, Cavalcade of songs
5 galeries : recherche graphique, création des personnages, story-boards, décors et mise en scène, photos de production
. Bandes annonces (6’) : sortie de 1955 + ressorties de 1972 et 1986
Here's the 2 artworks porposed now for this 2 disc CE release (of course, just one of them will make ti for the definitive release, don't know which one) :
For those who wonder, as we're talking about French DVDs, this 2 Disc CE will be a presented as a digipack with a slipcase ! A wolrd exclusive for this new release !!
It's important to note that these releases of <i>Lady and the Tramp</i> in France will be the first to present the film in its original aspect ratio of 2.35. The Limited French Edition released in 2000, did not present it as such and showed a distorted 1.33 aspect ratio, cuting about 56% of the film image. Whereas, the same Limited Edition release in the US had the original 2.35 AR.
Also, note that on the same date of Feb. 18th, BVHE France will take the opportunity of the release of this 1955 masterpiece to rerelease its now out-of-print sequel: <i>Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure</i> (<i>La Belle et le Clochard 2: l'appel de la rue</i>). The set will apparently be the same as the old one, released a few years ago. The new artwork will be the same as well:
Finally, a special Box Set will will also be released on the same day including the 2-Dsic CE of the classi, and the DVD of the sequel, with a SRP of 37,99€ for the box:
Thanks to the French website DVDRama and the online merchant Fnac for the info and the pics !
, next month is going to bleed my account dry! 