Thank you for your e-mail regarding BLACK CAULDRON. We appreciate your interest.
There are no plans for additional DVD releases of this title at this time.
ALADDIN is the next platinum title tentatively scheduled for release.
The Platinum Collection releases began in October of 2001 with the release of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, followed by the release of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in October of 2002, SLEEPING BEAUTY in September of 2003 and THE LION KING in October of 2003. ALADDIN is tentatively scheduled for a Fall 2004 release. All other Platinum Collection titles are currently unavailable and release dates for the remaining titles have not been set.
The Platinum Collection titles are: SNOW WHITE, 101 DALMATIANS, ALADDIN, BAMBI, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, CINDERELLA, THE JUNGLE BOOK, LADY AND THE TRAMP, THE LION KING, THE LITTLE MERMAID, SLEEPING BEAUTY, PINOCCHIO, PETER PAN and FANTASIA/FANTASIA 2000.
Each year, a title from the Platinum Collection will be released on video and DVD for a limited time only.
Again, thank you for taking the time to contact us. Please do not hesitate to contact us again if you have any other questions concerning our videos and DVD's, or if you would like to purchase one of our movies.
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So I guess this Sleeping Beauty is the Plantinum Sleeping Beauty. No Black Cauldron though! Well now I'm sure I'm going to get the Sleeping Beauty!
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Ok, I'm *really* confused. Disney considers the Sleeping SE to be part of their Platinum line according to this letter, yet that's not right because SB will be re-released as a Platinum a few years from now with different cover art and the Platinum banner. If they consider SB, which is simple a SE, to be Platinum, what separates this from the future Masterpiece Edition discs such as Alice in Wonderland, Pocahontas, and Lilo and Stitch? Disney's logic confuses me greatly...
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Yeah, but I'm assuming this e-mail to be a response to a request or something from the DisneyVideos website, and those e-mails (at least ones sent to me) are rarely correct or consistent.Disneykid wrote:Ok, I'm *really* confused. Disney considers the Sleeping SE to be part of their Platinum line according to this letter, yet that's not right because SB will be re-released as a Platinum a few years from now with different cover art and the Platinum banner. If they consider SB, which is simple a SE, to be Platinum, what separates this from the future Masterpiece Edition discs such as Alice in Wonderland, Pocahontas, and Lilo and Stitch? Disney's logic confuses me greatly...
Defy Gravity...
Ignore the Platinum branding - it no longer means anything to anyone but obsessive Disney collectors. It certainly means nothing to Disney themselves anymore.
How come you guys don't show as much obsession with the dropped Gold Collection branding?
How come you guys don't show as much obsession with the dropped Gold Collection branding?
Most of my Blu-ray collection some of my UK discs aren't on their database
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This is from DVDlaser.com saying what was on the Saludos Amigos/Three Caballeros Laserdisc set. Sorry about the size.
Walt Disney Home Video has released two outstanding collector's editions of classic cartoon features, Disney's Exclusive Archive Collection -- The Three Caballeros -- Saludos Amigos -- CAV Edition (5716CS, $100) and Disney's Exclusive Archive Collection -- Alice in Wonderland -- CAV Edition (6139CS, $100), each containing more surprises in their supplementary sections than a piñata, and you don't need a bat to break each one open, just a C-note or thereabouts. It should be made clear that on both discs, the supplementary features are effectively designed to tell the story of each film's production in a rewarding and entertaining manner. Both discs were produced by Harry Arends and Phil Savenick. The picture and sound transfers on Three Caballeros and Alice in Wonderland are identical to the previous releases we reviewed in Jun 89 and Oct 92 respectively. The pressings, however, are so much better that they give the illusion the picture has been improved, with sharper and more solid colors and a cleaner image on both programs. Three Caballeros was released previously in CAV, but Alice appears in that format for the first time. The 42 minute Saludos Amigos , also presented in CAV, appears on disc for the first time. The picture on Alice is excellent, with vivid, fresh-looking colors, no hint of wear and a crisp focus. The monaural sound is fine. Three Caballeros , which was shot in an especially vivid Technicolor, has a slightly softer image, with colors that sometimes take on a little haze. There is also a bit more speckling here and there. Much of this, however, is more likely an effect of the 1944 film's complex production, which combined live action sequences with animated characters, than a flaw in the transfer, and the colors are so bright that the program looks terrific anyway. The monaural sound is also a bit scratchy in places and is best held to a sensible volume. The colors on Saludos Amigos look bright and crisp, with the animated sequences looking as fresh as if they had been shot yesterday and only the travelog documentary footage that bridge them betraying the 1943 film's true age. The monaural sound is okay. The image and sound quality on the supplementary materials is clearly in the best condition achievable. Trailers that have been included for Three Caballeros and Saludos Amigos , incidentally, have an even stronger and more confident picture than the feature presentations. On Three Caballeros and Saludos Amigos , the music and effects tracks have been isolated on both analog channels, while on Alice in Wonderland the music and effects appear on a single analog channel. The films are closed captioned with some paraphrasing on both discs and, when appropriate, the supplements have also been captioned. The chapter guides on both discs are superbly organized. The production essays, on the other hand, are a bit lightweight. With the wealth of the materials provided on the discs, straightforward, scholarly, bad-with-the-good essays about the films would have been helpful in giving the viewer a well-rounded understanding of the collections and their significance. In 1941, when Europe was too busy to watch movies, all of Hollywood turned to Latin American themes. The early Forties saw the rise of a number of Hispanic and Brazilian stars, as well as many musicals, thrillers and adventure stories that were set south and sometimes substantially south of the border, all in the hopes of generating more boxoffice from the Western Hemisphere to offset the closure of markets elsewhere (a trend that pretty much died when the War ended). As is detailed in the Three Caballeros -- Saludos Amigos disc, Walt Disney went on a 'working vacation' to South America in 1941 with a dozen or so of his animators, artists and producers. The trip was sponsored by the American government and was good publicity for existing Disney products, but it also reaped the benefits Disney had counted on, generating a number of film projects geared for the Western Hemisphere audience. It did him more good than that--his brother managed to settle some severe labor troubles while he was out of the country--and although there is no real mention of it in the disc, the positive responses he got from his own personal appearances probably encouraged him further in the selling of his own image along with his product, an idea that blossomed fully a decade later with the start of his TV programs. Both Saludos Amigos and Three Caballeros resulted directly from this trip (both films combine cartoon shorts with live footage of South American locales; Three Caballeros also combines animation and live action in the same footage), as did a half hour documentary, South of the Border with Disney , which is also included on the disc. Within the supplement, the itinerary of the trip is detailed on an almost daily basis, and the completed and abandoned projects inspired by the trip are itemized. Two short cartoons that were abandoned without being completed, A Brazilian Symphony: Caxanga (in which Donald Duck attempts to master a rhythm game) and The Laughing Gauchito (in which the young Gaucho character, also seen in Three Caballeros , discovers that his laugh can break glass), have been reconstructed to near-finished condition exclusively for the disc. Two others that were not quite so far along, Blame It on the Samba which was to feature Donald, Joe Carioca and Carmen Miranda, and The Hornero Bird , about a near-sighted bird and narrated by Sterling Holloway, have also been put together as closely to the original plans as possible. Nearly a hundred of the many sketches and paintings done by the artists while on the trip have been included, chosen to show the variety of styles and subject matter considered by the artists. Most have little direct relationship to the features, demonstrating instead the compelling views the artists had of the places they visited. Other errata collected on the disc include an Argentine newsreel about Disney's visit (presented in Spanish on one channel and English on another); Aurora Miranda's screen test for Three Caballeros ; behind-the-scenes footage of the 'Acapulco beach'--actually the Disney parking lot--where actresses run about pretending Donald Duck is dive bombing them; costume sketches; footage of dancers that was used as reference for staging the dances in the film; the animated background sequences for the finale of Three Caballeros , without the live action overlay; a Mickey Mouse Club excerpt featuring a visit by José Oliveira, who voiced the Joe Carioca character; and a nice collection of publicity materials for both cartoon features. If that were not enough, there is also a bevy of audio supplements, including more than an hour of promotional radio programs (usually featuring Disney and a couple of cartoon characters being interviewed by the program host, followed by a musical number or two from the film), the theme song to Three Caballeros sung in Spanish, and radio commercials. The disc contains three platters, with five sides in CAV and one side, which features the South of the Border documentary, the trailers and some of the less-critical live action clips, in CLV. Some of the supplementary material is featured on side three after Caballeros is ended, but we recommend that the viewer resist the temptation to step through it until after viewing Saludos Amigos and the CLV material, both of which are heavily referenced within the supplement.
Walt Disney Home Video has released two outstanding collector's editions of classic cartoon features, Disney's Exclusive Archive Collection -- The Three Caballeros -- Saludos Amigos -- CAV Edition (5716CS, $100) and Disney's Exclusive Archive Collection -- Alice in Wonderland -- CAV Edition (6139CS, $100), each containing more surprises in their supplementary sections than a piñata, and you don't need a bat to break each one open, just a C-note or thereabouts. It should be made clear that on both discs, the supplementary features are effectively designed to tell the story of each film's production in a rewarding and entertaining manner. Both discs were produced by Harry Arends and Phil Savenick. The picture and sound transfers on Three Caballeros and Alice in Wonderland are identical to the previous releases we reviewed in Jun 89 and Oct 92 respectively. The pressings, however, are so much better that they give the illusion the picture has been improved, with sharper and more solid colors and a cleaner image on both programs. Three Caballeros was released previously in CAV, but Alice appears in that format for the first time. The 42 minute Saludos Amigos , also presented in CAV, appears on disc for the first time. The picture on Alice is excellent, with vivid, fresh-looking colors, no hint of wear and a crisp focus. The monaural sound is fine. Three Caballeros , which was shot in an especially vivid Technicolor, has a slightly softer image, with colors that sometimes take on a little haze. There is also a bit more speckling here and there. Much of this, however, is more likely an effect of the 1944 film's complex production, which combined live action sequences with animated characters, than a flaw in the transfer, and the colors are so bright that the program looks terrific anyway. The monaural sound is also a bit scratchy in places and is best held to a sensible volume. The colors on Saludos Amigos look bright and crisp, with the animated sequences looking as fresh as if they had been shot yesterday and only the travelog documentary footage that bridge them betraying the 1943 film's true age. The monaural sound is okay. The image and sound quality on the supplementary materials is clearly in the best condition achievable. Trailers that have been included for Three Caballeros and Saludos Amigos , incidentally, have an even stronger and more confident picture than the feature presentations. On Three Caballeros and Saludos Amigos , the music and effects tracks have been isolated on both analog channels, while on Alice in Wonderland the music and effects appear on a single analog channel. The films are closed captioned with some paraphrasing on both discs and, when appropriate, the supplements have also been captioned. The chapter guides on both discs are superbly organized. The production essays, on the other hand, are a bit lightweight. With the wealth of the materials provided on the discs, straightforward, scholarly, bad-with-the-good essays about the films would have been helpful in giving the viewer a well-rounded understanding of the collections and their significance. In 1941, when Europe was too busy to watch movies, all of Hollywood turned to Latin American themes. The early Forties saw the rise of a number of Hispanic and Brazilian stars, as well as many musicals, thrillers and adventure stories that were set south and sometimes substantially south of the border, all in the hopes of generating more boxoffice from the Western Hemisphere to offset the closure of markets elsewhere (a trend that pretty much died when the War ended). As is detailed in the Three Caballeros -- Saludos Amigos disc, Walt Disney went on a 'working vacation' to South America in 1941 with a dozen or so of his animators, artists and producers. The trip was sponsored by the American government and was good publicity for existing Disney products, but it also reaped the benefits Disney had counted on, generating a number of film projects geared for the Western Hemisphere audience. It did him more good than that--his brother managed to settle some severe labor troubles while he was out of the country--and although there is no real mention of it in the disc, the positive responses he got from his own personal appearances probably encouraged him further in the selling of his own image along with his product, an idea that blossomed fully a decade later with the start of his TV programs. Both Saludos Amigos and Three Caballeros resulted directly from this trip (both films combine cartoon shorts with live footage of South American locales; Three Caballeros also combines animation and live action in the same footage), as did a half hour documentary, South of the Border with Disney , which is also included on the disc. Within the supplement, the itinerary of the trip is detailed on an almost daily basis, and the completed and abandoned projects inspired by the trip are itemized. Two short cartoons that were abandoned without being completed, A Brazilian Symphony: Caxanga (in which Donald Duck attempts to master a rhythm game) and The Laughing Gauchito (in which the young Gaucho character, also seen in Three Caballeros , discovers that his laugh can break glass), have been reconstructed to near-finished condition exclusively for the disc. Two others that were not quite so far along, Blame It on the Samba which was to feature Donald, Joe Carioca and Carmen Miranda, and The Hornero Bird , about a near-sighted bird and narrated by Sterling Holloway, have also been put together as closely to the original plans as possible. Nearly a hundred of the many sketches and paintings done by the artists while on the trip have been included, chosen to show the variety of styles and subject matter considered by the artists. Most have little direct relationship to the features, demonstrating instead the compelling views the artists had of the places they visited. Other errata collected on the disc include an Argentine newsreel about Disney's visit (presented in Spanish on one channel and English on another); Aurora Miranda's screen test for Three Caballeros ; behind-the-scenes footage of the 'Acapulco beach'--actually the Disney parking lot--where actresses run about pretending Donald Duck is dive bombing them; costume sketches; footage of dancers that was used as reference for staging the dances in the film; the animated background sequences for the finale of Three Caballeros , without the live action overlay; a Mickey Mouse Club excerpt featuring a visit by José Oliveira, who voiced the Joe Carioca character; and a nice collection of publicity materials for both cartoon features. If that were not enough, there is also a bevy of audio supplements, including more than an hour of promotional radio programs (usually featuring Disney and a couple of cartoon characters being interviewed by the program host, followed by a musical number or two from the film), the theme song to Three Caballeros sung in Spanish, and radio commercials. The disc contains three platters, with five sides in CAV and one side, which features the South of the Border documentary, the trailers and some of the less-critical live action clips, in CLV. Some of the supplementary material is featured on side three after Caballeros is ended, but we recommend that the viewer resist the temptation to step through it until after viewing Saludos Amigos and the CLV material, both of which are heavily referenced within the supplement.
Dust? Anyone? No?
Dust? Anyone? No?
Dust? Anyone? No?
Well thats actually low in fat so you can eat as much of that as you like.
Dust? Anyone? No?
Dust? Anyone? No?
Well thats actually low in fat so you can eat as much of that as you like.
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Mr. Pumpkinhead
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So with the list they gave you of Platinum releases: SNOW WHITE, 101 DALMATIANS, ALADDIN, BAMBI, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, CINDERELLA, THE JUNGLE BOOK, LADY AND THE TRAMP, THE LION KING, THE LITTLE MERMAID, SLEEPING BEAUTY, PINOCCHIO, PETER PAN and FANTASIA/FANTASIA 2000.
Basically are they saying they will be rereleasing 101 Dalmations, The Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Fantasia, and Fantasia 2000 into 2 disc platinum editions?
Wasn't the DVD's of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 sufficient? Is the Anthology 3 DVD box set not perfect? I think it is. I don't see what they could possibly come up with to put on the disc. I still haven't seen everything on those discs.
With titles like Aladdin, Bambi and Cinderella I can see why. They've never been released before on DVD.
Also, does this mean all 43 titles will get the Platinum treatment or just that list they gave you?
I personally can't see them releasing Platinum or Special Editions of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad or Fun and Fancy Free (although no less charming than the other classics).
Basically are they saying they will be rereleasing 101 Dalmations, The Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Fantasia, and Fantasia 2000 into 2 disc platinum editions?
Wasn't the DVD's of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 sufficient? Is the Anthology 3 DVD box set not perfect? I think it is. I don't see what they could possibly come up with to put on the disc. I still haven't seen everything on those discs.
With titles like Aladdin, Bambi and Cinderella I can see why. They've never been released before on DVD.
Also, does this mean all 43 titles will get the Platinum treatment or just that list they gave you?
I personally can't see them releasing Platinum or Special Editions of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad or Fun and Fancy Free (although no less charming than the other classics).
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ArtOfDisney
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I would love to see all of Disney's films get the Royal treatment to DVD. I personally love all the behind the scenes and extras, not to mention the Hidden Easter Eggs.
I think I would go as far as to say I would like to see Disney continue their Vault Disney Collection further than the Parent Trap and movie into other Live Action Films like Darby O'Gill and The Happiest Millionaire.
I think I would go as far as to say I would like to see Disney continue their Vault Disney Collection further than the Parent Trap and movie into other Live Action Films like Darby O'Gill and The Happiest Millionaire.
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I think the Fantasia discs will just be a re-issue. To be honest by that point I'm expecting the Platinum banner to have been dropped. It's all but dropped now - the only mention is on the cover of the Lion King. It's not in any advertising or even mentioned on the contents of the gift set box.
The Limited Edition releases will be re-released as 2 disc sets. Peter Pan too will get a 2 disc set based on (but with more content) the French/Japanese Peter Pan 2 disc sets - expect to see the silent 1924 Paramount Peter Pan film included (which Disney himself bought the rights to as soon as he had the idea of making an animated Peter Pan film), just like Sleeping Beauty was based on the European 2 disc sets. I expect Sleeping Beauty simply to be re-issued at some time in the future.
Pinocchio is tricky. Most of the world has a new Special Edition release that includes a restored transfer (although the difference is not that noticable) and a couple of the Jiminy Cricket "I'm No Fool Shorts" (and not much else). I expect this to be released as a 2 disc set worldwide, meaning most countries will get a third "all-new" Pinocchio disc. I would guess more "I'm No Fool" shorts (including some actually featuring Pinocchio himself) and the usual galleries, commentary track etc to be included.
The Limited Edition releases will be re-released as 2 disc sets. Peter Pan too will get a 2 disc set based on (but with more content) the French/Japanese Peter Pan 2 disc sets - expect to see the silent 1924 Paramount Peter Pan film included (which Disney himself bought the rights to as soon as he had the idea of making an animated Peter Pan film), just like Sleeping Beauty was based on the European 2 disc sets. I expect Sleeping Beauty simply to be re-issued at some time in the future.
Pinocchio is tricky. Most of the world has a new Special Edition release that includes a restored transfer (although the difference is not that noticable) and a couple of the Jiminy Cricket "I'm No Fool Shorts" (and not much else). I expect this to be released as a 2 disc set worldwide, meaning most countries will get a third "all-new" Pinocchio disc. I would guess more "I'm No Fool" shorts (including some actually featuring Pinocchio himself) and the usual galleries, commentary track etc to be included.
Most of my Blu-ray collection some of my UK discs aren't on their database
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Mr. Pumpkinhead
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About three to four years according to current schedules.
Most of my Blu-ray collection some of my UK discs aren't on their database