I have to say I also didn't think volume 2 look as exciting, perhaps it was the buffalo on the cover that made me feel that way

, but I have to say it is far and away my outright favourite of all four! The two features
The Living Desert and
The Vanishing Prairie are definitely the two best True Life Adventure features in my opinion!
Anyway with a note to the color issues on volume one. I have to say that I thought that something was odd when the opening shot presents a red RKO logo and the writing is yellow rather than blue/green. During the actual feature, it's apparant that something is not quite right, but I don't think it's that distracting. There is in fact some clips of an unrestored version of Prowlers of the Everglades of Volume 4, where the color does look more correct, so it would seem this issue is real and is not just a figment of the imagination of some.
Three other things that have irritated me about these sets are:
On volume 2
Nature's Strangest Creatures looks awful, the color are faded and washed out and it's grain galore. I understand it's not technically a true life adventure, but it's only 15 minutes long, surely something could have been done!
First of all during the bonus features on volume 4, the fact that the final reel of
Secrets of Life in cinemascope is mention numerous times. However the actual print of the film on the DVD is pan and scan. Could Disney not have given us the cinemascope footage even as a bonus feature?
Second issue with volume 4. The print of
Adventure in Wildwood Heart is in black and white, yet when it is being discussed in the bonus features, the clip footage is in color, even a clip of the title card is color! Even if it is not available in its entirity in color, could they not have spliced in the available colore footage?
Oh and I'm still bitter that
Emperor Penguins was not included!
