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Buena Vista Home Entertainment France has finally announced today the release of the 1955 Disney Classic, <i>Lady and the Tramp</i> (<i>La Belle et le Clochard</i> in French) for <b>February 14, 2006</b> (meaning 14 days before the US release !).

As usual in France, the movie will be available to buy in two separate editions: the single disc release and the 2-Disc Collector's Edition.

The Standart single disc release will include the movie entirely restored with "an image and sound beyond their original brillance":

- All-New Disney Enhanced Home Theater Mix Doly Digital 5.1 Tracks (English, French and Dutch)
- Bonus material:
. Scène coupée commentée : « Les rôles inversés » (4’40’’)
. Musique : clip de la chanson « Bella Notte » interprétée par Steve Tyrell
. Jeu (psychotest) : « Quel chien êtes-vous ? »
. Les coulisses de la production : Le pedigree de Belle (40’)
. Galeries : recherche graphique, création des personnages, story-boards…

Here's the artwork for this single disc release (the same as the US 2-disc one):



The 2-Disc Collector's Edition will include on Disc 1, the same content as in the single disc release, except that it will have a 5.1 DTS track (French only), only available on this set (that will replace the Dutch DD 5.1 of the single disc edition).
Here is the list of the new special bonus features for this set:

DVD 1
. All the features listed below for the single DVD release
. Bonus Preview of the 2nd DVD

DVD 2
. 2 scènes coupées ou abandonnées commentées : « Les rôles inversés » et « L’arrivée du bébé » (13’)
. La musique à travers le clip de la chanson « Bella Notte » par Steve Tyrell
. Un reportage d’introduction à la chanson des siamois et un mini-doc sur la recherche des voix félines (6’)
. 3 jeux : « les chiens Disney », « les chiens et leurs maîtres » et « quel chien êtes-vous ? »
. Les coulisses de la production : Making of en 7 reportages : « Le pedigree de Belle » (54’) comprenant les sections : Retour à Marceline, L’histoire de la Belle et le Clochard, Animation primaire, La chorale canine, Des chiens qui parlent, Art et design, Retour à la maison
. Les story-boards originaux + 4 extraits de l’émission Disneyland (46’) : Présentation, Histoire de chiens, Bande-annonce, Cavalcade of songs
5 galeries : recherche graphique, création des personnages, story-boards, décors et mise en scène, photos de production
. Bandes annonces (6’) : sortie de 1955 + ressorties de 1972 et 1986

Here's the 2 artworks porposed now for this 2 disc CE release (of course, just one of them will make ti for the definitive release, don't know which one) :





For those who wonder, as we're talking about French DVDs, this 2 Disc CE will be a presented as a digipack with a slipcase ! A wolrd exclusive for this new release !!

It's important to note that these releases of <i>Lady and the Tramp</i> in France will be the first to present the film in its original aspect ratio of 2.35. The Limited French Edition released in 2000, did not present it as such and showed a distorted 1.33 aspect ratio, cuting about 56% of the film image. Whereas, the same Limited Edition release in the US had the original 2.35 AR.

Also, note that on the same date of Feb. 18th, BVHE France will take the opportunity of the release of this 1955 masterpiece to rerelease its now out-of-print sequel: <i>Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure</i> (<i>La Belle et le Clochard 2: l'appel de la rue</i>). The set will apparently be the same as the old one, released a few years ago. The new artwork will be the same as well:



Finally, a special Box Set will will also be released on the same day including the 2-Dsic CE of the classi, and the DVD of the sequel, with a SRP of 37,99€ for the box:



Thanks to the French website DVDRama and the online merchant Fnac for the info and the pics !

I'm a little suprised they didn't change the Lady and the Tramp 2 cover.

Well, sequels mostly suck, so it wouldn't be worth changing the cover for some crap. Granted, I haven't seen this sequel, but if it's along the lines of all the other Disney sequels, it probably sucks.

PaulAtreides wrote:Well, sequels mostly suck, so it wouldn't be worth changing the cover for some crap. Granted, I haven't seen this sequel, but if it's along the lines of all the other Disney sequels, it probably sucks.

It's not crap, actually!

In my humble opinion, this is one of the better (if not the best) of the DTV sequels. Most people talk about 'along the lines of all the other Disney sequels' as the Beauty and the Beast and first Aladdin sequels, which do certainly suck harder than a hard sucking thing. However this, along with 101 Dalamatians are FAR above the 'rest' of the sequels. The solid DVD presentation of LAtT 2 shows just how much a labour of love this was for all involved. If you haven't seen this particular sequel, and are avoiding it because you haven't liked some of the others, I'd say give it a go. It is definitely better, even if it does follow the traditional 'son of' or 'role reversal' sequel formula.

Liked Lady and the Tramp II
Hated King Kong....

I sure will take your advises Loomis


"Chacun ses goûts...."

Exclusively found on DVDRama, here are the first menu captures of the 2 Disc Collector's Edition:













This looks nice

Jordan wrote:

Oh great, it looks at though 'Lady and the Tramp III: The Puppy Years' is on it's way!

ichabod wrote:

Jordan wrote:

Oh great, it looks at though 'Lady and the Tramp III: The Puppy Years' is on it's way!

No, don't worry, it's jsut a DVDRom feature game lol

Jordan wrote:No, don't worry, it's jsut a DVDRom feature game lol

Yeah, I know what it is, but now they've got the character designs, sitting there ready to be used...

Also doesn't Trusty look like Copper from The Fox and the Hound

ichabod wrote:Also doesn't Trusty look like Copper from The Fox and the Hound

Yeah you're right

ichabod wrote:

Jordan wrote:

Oh great, it looks at though 'Lady and the Tramp III: The Puppy Years' is on it's way!

Jordan wrote:Exclusively found on DVDRama, here are the first menu captures of the 2 Disc Collector's Edition:













This looks nice

Thanks for posting Jordan, it looks great

I'm really looking forward to this release now , next month is going to bleed my account dry!

Does anyone have an idea of where they're going to get this from yet?

Enchantress wrote:I'm really looking forward to this release now , next month is going to bleed my account dry!

Does anyone have an idea of where they're going to get this from yet?

I have it on order from Play.com.

Wonderlicious wrote:

Enchantress wrote:I'm really looking forward to this release now , next month is going to bleed my account dry!

Does anyone have an idea of where they're going to get this from yet?

I have it on order from Play.com.

Cool, I was thinking of getting it from Woolworths, but I like the idea of play.com as well. Mind you I do prefer in store shopping. (hey i'm female )
I got Pocahontas from there on release date for about £12

Enchantress wrote:Does anyone have an idea of where they're going to get this from yet?

I'll get it from the Disney Store as always, to get the exclusive lithograph.

For those who are interrested and who speak French, here is the DVD test by DVDRama of the Collector's Edition with screen cap of the DVD:

http://www.dvdrama.com/rw_fiche-6013-.php

For those who are interrested, click on the following link to see some home made pictures of the (beautiful !) French digipack for the 2-disc set, which is released next Tueday:

http://www.dvdrama.com/forums/ftopic73106-0-asc-50.php (scroll down util the middle of the page to see the pics).

The 3 DVD french Box with the sequel of Lady and the Tramp > very beautiful box !!