Fantasia uncensored

[drfsupercenter]

Today i went on a screening of Fantasia. The Swedish filminstitute was showing an old 35 mm print.
The funny thing i is that it was in cinemascope I didn't know that there was a scope version, it was also unedited with the black centaur.
I wonder if the Swedish release on dvd/blu ray is the unedited version i suppose not, maybe I can rent it somewhere to find out. Really nice to see at a cinema, I have seen it before at a cinema but must be at least 30 years ago.

They had "scope" versions of lots of Disney movies, all they did was chop the top and bottom off the frame... which is why I hate these widescreen transfers of Academy movies so much. Even Snow White and Pinocchio were cropped in some theaters.

I'm like 99% certain the Swedish release on home video is censored, but I suppose it's always worth a try.

So, I don't suppose you can talk to the projectionist about getting a copy of that 35mm

[Grumpy]

Maybe i should suggest a trade I have some 35 mm prints. I used to work as a projectionist.

[drfsupercenter]

Definitely! I'd love to see someone on this forum have an uncensored film print, as it would be great for restoration work (and in most countries 1940 is old enough to be public domain so it would be totally legal to do a fan restoration too. Especially since you aren't in the US)

[TsWade2]

drfsupercenter, if what you're looking for is the Pastoral Symphony scenes from Fantasia with Sunflower (and co), the whole damn sequence has been uploaded on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPKpFNm3QMM

Apparently Disney showed this in the 80s on WWoC by accident and some guy recorded the whole thing. I think it's much better quality then the individual clips that have been uploaded.

Dammit Youtube!

[carolinakid]

Don't damn youtube, damn Disney! They're the ones who made youtube take the clip down. It was great while it lasted. I saw the clip several years ago. Sunflower is a charmer!