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Hey,
I was wondering if Disney has any history of getting rid of any footage they didnt use in the final releases of their movies. I've heard some studios keep them in archives and vaults and others just throw the old film in the garbage.

I think they don't use them in the movie, but the put them in the dvd

Disney are supposed to have the best archives in the industry and are especially commended for their animation archives (as is seen on the many fine animated film DVDs). I see no reason why their live-action archives wouldn't follow the same policy (ie. keep virtually everything!)

rb_canadian181 wrote:Hey,
I was wondering if Disney has any history of getting rid of any footage they didnt use in the final releases of their movies. I've heard some studios keep them in archives and vaults and others just throw the old film in the garbage.

You mean like burning them to ashes so they they could never be resurrected again? That would stink if that did happen, I guess folks back in the Walt Disney age never expected the idea of the DVD to come about

Wouldnt it be cool to see the forbidden Disney vaults for ourselves?

I know it's an old thread but just to add my $0.02...

Disney's "morgue" is renowned for its depth of resources - Disney is the one studio with a reputation for saving EVERYTHING

Animation is very expensive and time consuming to produce, so it is very rare that an animated sequence is ever cut from a movie - though it probably happened a lot lately (Kingdom of the Sun, etc... Etc..)

In the past, unwanted scenes were usually cut while still in story boards, or rough pencil tests, one famous example of a full pencil test that was cut was the "Soup" number from "Snow White" - but it is very rare for a scene to be fully made before it is cut. That's why for deleted scenes on Disney DVD's you usually get half animated scenes, no color, story boards, and a rough voice track all mixed in to give you an idea of what the scene might have been like, but it is very rare indeed for a scene to be fully animated and produced and then get cut. For movies like BatB and TLK, the new footage added to the movie was actually made specifically for the DVD release.

The release earlier this year of "Follow Me Boys" had several never seen deleted scenes restored to their original locations in the movie, so for about 38 years they must have sat in storage.

You'd think they'd keep them in storage to put in the "special features" when they release a movie on DVD. I think Disney just puts the unused stuff in storage.

pleasurebay wrote:The release earlier this year of "Follow Me Boys" had several never seen deleted scenes restored to their original locations in the movie, so for about 38 years they must have sat in storage.

now that's my kind of a dvd! if only they could do a Hocus Pocus restoration like that. they deleted scenes were eatured partially in the trailers etc.

They did the same with Bon Voyage! I have the 1986 White Clamshell Edition, and it was missing some parts that the DVD had. But I had never seen the Chicken Scene, or the scene where MacMurray calls Vera Miles to invite her to the town meeting until I bought the DVD. Because I have the 1983 White Clamshell Edition of Follow Me Boys, also. And it was missing those 2 scenes. Do you know if on the Herbie Rides Again DVD, if they brought back the rare deleted scene of Doctor Herbie. When their are a bunch of Herbies dressed up as Doctors, and they are operating on Alonzo Hawk ? I know it was origionally deleted because it was considered controversial.

There were 2 other scenes that popped out at me, the scene with the canoe in the lake and the first hike with the boy's when he is reading from the scout manual. I too have the old VHS issue and I will cherish it as long as it lasts but the DVD version is great regardless of the lack of special features.

Regarding <i>Follow Me, Boys!</i>, it was cut by ten minutes for its 1976 reissue...and presumably the VHS release too. The DVD restores the film as it was released, so these aren't 'deleted scenes' as much as they are 'restored scenes' preserving the original theatrical cut.

I'm sure <i>Bon Voyage!</i> is the same story. That one had a little bit of a pacing problem.

rb_canadian181 wrote:the deleted scenes were featured partially in the trailers etc.

Its actually common practice to throw deleted scenes into the trailers. So, the clips you mention may not have been intended to be included in the film itself, at least not in the final cut.

Maybe they use them to the second DVD release for you to buy them again, with the deleted scenes.