JeanGreyForever wrote:farerb wrote:Maybe Sleeping Beauty has a higher bitrate. It should since Sleeping Beauty has more image than 101 Dalmatians.
Honestly, I doubt Disney would be stopped by that if that was the real issue.
Agreed. Especially since
One Hundred and One Dalmatians also as the DisneyView option which would eat up bitrate on the disc as well.
It still bothers me that the entirety of the Sleeping Beauty Castle supplements (the history featurette, the actual walk-through, and the different options for the walk-through) has only ever been on the 2008 Platinum Edition. Even if they were to not include some of the viewing options, having the 10-minute history featurette and just the basic 8-minute walkthrough would have helped improve the Signature Collection release, even if it still just a single-disc affair. Of course, my dream version of
Sleeping Beauty would probably use more than two discs anyway so whatever Disney would have released regardless would still be a disappointment for me. They still won't give me a Mary Costa documentary, the 1970/1979/1986 theatrical trailers, or an isolated score track, among other things.
Disney Duster wrote:Escapay wrote:"In Walt's Words" is taken from 1956 and 1961 interviews, so the Pete Martin sessions account for the first half of the featurette, and whatever the 1961 source accounts for the second.
Would you say it's a good bonus feature, or that it has information we don't already know from past bonus features?
It's good-ish, in the sense that it's always fun hearing from the man himself. But the 1956 Pete Martin interviews are not meant to be in-depth, every little bit of minutiae, detailed explanations of the production of these films. They were recorded across Saturday afternoons as part of a career and life retrospective, so he's thinking usually in broader terms than what we'd come to expect for a modern-day making-of interview.
With that in mind, along with the fact that the film was still three years from release, what we get here is not so much an actual "here's what Walt thought about the film," but again, a broad "this is what Walt was saying about the film in 1956." Basically that, because of all his various television projects, he had a LOT of animators to handle all the work. Some were better suited for television while others were better suited for feature film, like
Sleeping Beauty. And that's really it.
When it gets to the retrospective interview of 1961, that's when you get to see what Walt really thought of the film. He asks himself what went wrong, where did he go wrong with it. He knows that it looked great, but the box-office numbers were still disappointing. Of course, as a Disney picture, he still had that one ace up his sleeve: the picture would get re-issued again (ironically, not in his lifetime), and it would generate a timelessness in that respect. It ends with some words on (debateably) Walt's favorite aspect of
Sleeping Beauty: that its castle is the centerpiece of Disneyland. It's the one thing that he can still touch, plus, grow, etc.
So, really, nothing new in terms of information passed down from previous documentaries and biographies. But hearing it from Walt himself always lends a continued appreciation for the history of it all.
I was also watching the new
One Hundred and One Dalmatians supplements tonight, and they're miles ahead of the
Sleeping Beauty "Fun Facts" nonsense. We see more excerpts of Marc Davis's 1985 interview (used on the "Disney Family Album" documentary series, as well as occasional DVD documentaries), specific to Cruella De Vil. And the Color & Line featurette is an interview with
Pocahontas co-director Mike Gabriel, where he touches on why both are important and how they shape the look of the film. The "In Walt's Words" does feature from overlap from the
Lady and the Tramp chapter, mainly because it continues to talk about Walt and his dogs. But the 1961 portion of the interview does go into some specifics about the film. He's mostly recapping the film, but throws in a few nuggets of what he liked about the book and adapting it for animation.
Albert