DVDizzy Forum

Mr. Yagoobian wrote:Anyone who cares so much about the film that bonus features are supremely important ought to be complaining there's no documentary addressing the restoration. I don't think anyone is giving the company *nearly* enough credit for the difficulty and effort and expense involved in creating a high quality high definition presentation of a 70-year-old film shot on film stock that's capable of spontaneous combustion. That work is all about *the film*, and it takes a helluva lot more than a sprinkling of pixie dust.

Mr. Yagoobian wrote:

jpanimation wrote: IDK, releasing a trailer advertising the shorts and having Don Hahn tell people on multiple occasions that we were getting them is pretty official to me. Either way, Disney marketing has spewed out misinformation too many times now that I've learned my lesson. I don't trust anything they say until it's in my hands and all there.

Pre-freakin'-cisely. It's not like Disney is the only studio that's ever put out a release that didn't measure up to earlier publicity, or entirely pull a release from the schedule. Nothing *anyone* says matters, no matter how official, until review copies are out and you've got your own copy for perusal. That's just the nature of the home media industry.

jpanimation wrote:I love trailers, it's a gateway to another time. It's the trailers for re-releases that I could care less about.

Funny. That's the exact reason why the *only* trailers I've ever watched more than once were the ones included on...was it the PE of Snow White? In which they included the trailers for every theatrical re-release the film ever had. I thought that was pretty cool...but they didn't make such a deep impression I can say with confidence which film they did that for.

As far as editing and re-dubbing goes: The pickaninnies aren't going to be seen until this country comes somewhere close to healing its racial wounds, which may never happen at all. I think it's far more likely we'll get at least some of Deems Taylor, someday...but if they don't have *all* of his voicework, I'd rather have him overdubbed than put up with obvious & repeated shifts in voice and recording quality while watching the film. Not to knock Mr. Taylor or his role in the film's garnering public interest and acceptance, but when I watch Fantasia, I'm not watching it for Deems Taylor.

jpanimation wrote:This just assumes that everyone owns the DVD release. What about those of us that don't (people that have never owned it, or just the VHS, or just a pirated copy, and so on)? I've only ever owned the VHS, so ported features are very much appreciated, and I'm sure people upgrading their DVDs would love to have everything ported so they didn't need to hold onto multiple releases.

I'm upgrading the DVD and I don't care that prior features aren't being ported---I've already paid for them, so why should I pay for them again? Which is why I think it's an interesting and appropriate solution that prior special features be made available via BD-Live & the virtual vault: if, in fact, that's what's going to happen, it'll be the best implementation of BD-Live to date.

There are plenty of films which I've bought and bought again for which I don't own every piece of bonus content ever produced. But am I, say, going to go out and buy into dead laserdisc technology just so I can have *everything*? No. Do I feel ripped off? No. Is my enjoyment of the feature presentation affected in the least by all the special features I *don't* own? Not a whit. I didn't see supplements in the theatre, I saw the feature presentation.There's no quantity of bonus material that's going to make me a part of the production process; there's always going to be *something* "important" I'll never know.

And *yes*---studios release on home media only to release again. The only significant way Disney differs from any other studio in that regard is that we know up front some releases are only going to be available for a limited time. If a definitive collection of special features is that important, the only way you're ever going to get them is to buy every release ever made: it's the nature of the beast, and it's why getting emotionally invested in special features is a losing proposition to begin with.

Escapay wrote:Disney used to have short restoration featurettes on some of their DVDs (Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, a portion of "Music Magic" on Bedknobs and Broomsticks), but they haven't had any since Bambi, which is a pity.

singerguy04 wrote:I would LOVE to know more about the production of the film. I missed out on the previous set and it would've been nice to have a definitive release on blu.

BwayJ wrote:Has anyone heard of any special Fantasia screenings that will happen between now and the end of the year? I think I heard of one in California sometime a couple months ago, and I'd like to know if there are any more happening in either New York, California or wherever.

BwayJ wrote:

BwayJ wrote:Has anyone heard of any special Fantasia screenings that will happen between now and the end of the year? I think I heard of one in California sometime a couple months ago, and I'd like to know if there are any more happening in either New York, California or wherever.

I'd hate to seem insistent, but my family and I are making our Thanksgiving plans, and I'd like to find out if Fantasia is going to be playing in New York at any point during that weekend.

Does anyone have any clues?