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Destino really looks more like Pocahantas than Dali. Is the New set going to include the Claire de Lune sequence? I'd much rather have that.

Just about every Disney movie has been altered. Usually the soundtracks are the most worked over, but colors, effects animation and backgrounds are fair game.

The problem with the Kostal soundtrack goes to the core of what Fantasia is- animation to music. When the film was made, Stokowski arranged and recorded the music before the film entered production. The animators broke down Stokowski's performance to a 24th of a second and animated exactly to...

The Kostal version is seriously out of sync with the action in the Rite of Spring, and the rearrangement of Toccata and Fugue doesn't match the scale of the imagery at all. Even as a teenager, I could tell that the soundtrack was all messed up. It's best left buried. This is Stoki's picture...

The added roadshow scenes contribute nothing to the movie. They just slow down already slow introductions. They were cut before the film went into general release for good reason. The laserdisc version (aside from the Pastoral censorship) was the way the film always looked to general audiences...

I'm an animation historian. You can see me in the extras on the Popeye DVDs and I run the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. I'm not infallible, but I've seen Fantasia many times in many releases over the years. Since I was a kid, Fantasia has always run a hair over 120 minutes. The same Deems...

Ahollis, I am positive you are wrong. The only version prior to the recent DVD release that does not include Deems Taylor's narration is the Irwin Kostel rerecord. The VHS and laserdisc were the 120 minute RKO version with a few cuts of centaurs. That is Deems Taylor on that release.

I've been racking my brain to try to remember how the Deems Taylor sequences were handled in the Irwin Kostel digital audio version from the early 80s. Now that I have thought about it, the Deems Taylor narration was replaced by the announcer from the Wonderful World of Color TV show. That and...

That chronology isn't correct. If you got that at wikipedia, someone has been monkeying with it. The Deems Taylor info is wrong, and the date of the cut to Pastoral is wrong. The uncut Pastoral aired on the Disneyland show once in the mid 50s. I think complaints after that airing is what...

Louis Armstrong was a pallbearer at Jolson's funeral and said that Jolson did more to show the humanity in the black man than any other white entertainer. Sometimes the impressions we have of this stuff from our modern perspective are dead wrong.

By the way, the cuts in Pastoral were made in the 1950s, not 1969.

THe Deems Taylor footage was added. It was part of the roadshow version of the film, not the standard version. Some dialogue tracks were missing, so they recreated them. The last thing that Fantasia needs is more introductions. They should let the film play in its standard form and include the...