SLEEPING BEAUTY - 3 video releases

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VCD? YIKES! That means your copy is VHS quality at best - but with macroblocking. :-(

The 2003 DVD is the one Disney restoration that I find most successful.
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yea it truely is beautiful!! I love it and the fact that it is cinemascope always makes it feel so much better to me!
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How come they didn't keep the real aspect ratio. I've read where Escapay says that it's slightly different from it's theatrical ratio. Anastasia is the second animated film done in the same widescreen ratio as Sleeping Beauty, but it is also slightly different for dvd, why?
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clarity vs. color

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Can we sometimes have TOO much clarity? Who looks good with a magnifying glass up to their face in florescent light? :-) I think with animation - and the size of the actual canvas - there is a place where you're going to reach the point of diminishing returns. Color is SO important to these films, and it looks so much like they are changing things.

BTW - I posted at the Home Theater Forum, and there are some interesting comments from that site as well as a sneak peak at some CINDERELLA pics.

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/sho ... p?t=252551
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lord-of-sith wrote:Awesome caps and comparisons drsd2kill. The old VHS pan&scan caps make me want to barf.
I have the widescreen version on my VCD as well as the full screen version on VHS tape. The widescreen version would be a perfect fit for HD TV. The VHS Masterpiece edition is shown here.

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They had the THX Certified logo on every Masterpiece edition VHS tapes along with "Fun & Fancy Free", "Bambi", "Lady and the Tramp" and many other VHS Masterpiece tapes. For those of you who had every Disney Masterpiece VHS tapes, the THX logo was a masterpiece. Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6qyoBHmcxM
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Re: Future comparisons

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drsd2kill wrote:CINDERELLA
* 1989 CAV Laserdisc
* 1995 CAV Laserdisc
* 2005 DVD
I can't wait to see that one. I've never actually sat down and compared the versions to that movie. Everyone says the color palette greatly differs in the Lowry restoration, so it would be nice to see it.

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I'm sorry you only have the THX VHS release of SLEEPING BEAUTY. VHS blown up to HDTV proportions is horrible! Even Laserdisc blown up to HDTV is a major compromise from anamorphic widescreen (compare the widescreen Laserdisc and DVD shots from SB - anamorphic enhancement combined with DVD higher resolution can't compare for sharpness and detail).
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https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?f ... =1&theater

Here is a very nice comparison between all 4 versions :)
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I tried that link...it doesnt work :(
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Marce82 wrote:I tried that link...it doesnt work :(
Okay...how can i put the photo in here so that anyone could see it?
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No clue
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Sicoe6256 wrote:
Marce82 wrote:I tried that link...it doesnt work :(
Okay...how can i put the photo in here so that anyone could see it?
You could always use the actual image location instead of the page location. For example:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 401&type=3

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 7290_n.jpg
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Wonderlicious wrote:
Sicoe6256 wrote: Okay...how can i put the photo in here so that anyone could see it?
You could always use the actual image location instead of the page location. For example:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 401&type=3

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 7290_n.jpg
I guess I didn't think about that, lol :lol:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 2319_o.jpg
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Floyd Norman, who animated on Sleeping Beauty, said the 2008 restoration was really good and made the film almost exactly as it should be.
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Disney Duster wrote:Floyd Norman, who animated on Sleeping Beauty, said the 2008 restoration was really good and made the film almost exactly as it should be.
Do you by any chance know what characters Floyd animated? I believe in the 1960s his role at the studio had changed. I don't think he was doing actual animation by then.

But I'm really curious to know what he animated. I'm not even sure whether he was a key animator or an assistant or inbetweener.
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Am I the only one who thinks that, out of the comparison, the earliest image looks the nicest, color wise?
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Okay Floyd Norman was an inbetweener, a breakdown artist, then an assistant animator. The first thing he animated was the lid of a trunk one of the fairies closes. He animated a young woman and lots of townspeople in "The Legend of Wind Wagon Smith". He animated some of Robin Hood in the climactic battle scene of the film, but still not enough to get a credit in the film credits. But he was a full animator by then. Then Walt Disney suggested he should be a story man instead of an animator and he changed his career to that. But he still loves (traditional) animation!
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