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"Goodbye, Nana..."
Like many of the other Disney Classics and "Classics," Peter Pan has now undergone homogenized digital clean-up. This is both good and bad.
Gone are any artifacts that might have allowed one to believe that the film was hand outlined on cells and painted by hand in delicate colors over half a century ago.
Will the kids care?
Definitely, not.
Are the basic film elements in any way affected?
Definitely, not.
So what one has is another "new edition" with more brilliant colors, blacker blacks, and not a speck of Disney dust in sight.
As a "new edition" Pan, as have those that have come before it, shines.
This is brilliant entertainment on which I was raised, which now looks...
well, different, but pretty.
Very Pretty.
A number of years ago, when the digital "restorations" of the Disney classics began, someone queried one of the original animators about the color.
His reply, and I can't quote, was something like...
"The color? It's nice color. It's pretty color. But it's not our color."
While I don't have a dye transfer reference print to compare color to the new DVD, one would think that it would take the same tack as those that have gone before.
This is a great film. A great entertainment that is still as fresh as the day that it was created.
So does the updating matter for DVD?
Probably not, for the result is glorious. Especially for anyone who has never had the opportunity to view this wonderful film.
One other nitpick.
A promo notes that the 1967 Jungle Book will be arriving "for the first time as a two disc set" this fall. Not for the first time, but for the first time with a caveat.
And the film has been "restored."
A quick before and after shows the ugly old Jungle Book next to the beautiful new Jungle Book.
The "old" looks faded, possibly water damaged, and generally unviewable.
I don't for a moment believe that this is the state in which the original SE negative has survived, and seems closest to the incredibly necessary "restoration" of The Little Mermaid.
This stupidity aside, Disney's Peter Pan is a highly recommended DVD. And don't fret about the original film. It's well preserved, and can be printed in it's original form anytime the studio might wish.
RAH
Like many of the other Disney Classics and "Classics," Peter Pan has now undergone homogenized digital clean-up. This is both good and bad.
Gone are any artifacts that might have allowed one to believe that the film was hand outlined on cells and painted by hand in delicate colors over half a century ago.
Will the kids care?
Definitely, not.
Are the basic film elements in any way affected?
Definitely, not.
So what one has is another "new edition" with more brilliant colors, blacker blacks, and not a speck of Disney dust in sight.
As a "new edition" Pan, as have those that have come before it, shines.
This is brilliant entertainment on which I was raised, which now looks...
well, different, but pretty.
Very Pretty.
A number of years ago, when the digital "restorations" of the Disney classics began, someone queried one of the original animators about the color.
His reply, and I can't quote, was something like...
"The color? It's nice color. It's pretty color. But it's not our color."
While I don't have a dye transfer reference print to compare color to the new DVD, one would think that it would take the same tack as those that have gone before.
This is a great film. A great entertainment that is still as fresh as the day that it was created.
So does the updating matter for DVD?
Probably not, for the result is glorious. Especially for anyone who has never had the opportunity to view this wonderful film.
One other nitpick.
A promo notes that the 1967 Jungle Book will be arriving "for the first time as a two disc set" this fall. Not for the first time, but for the first time with a caveat.
And the film has been "restored."
A quick before and after shows the ugly old Jungle Book next to the beautiful new Jungle Book.
The "old" looks faded, possibly water damaged, and generally unviewable.
I don't for a moment believe that this is the state in which the original SE negative has survived, and seems closest to the incredibly necessary "restoration" of The Little Mermaid.
This stupidity aside, Disney's Peter Pan is a highly recommended DVD. And don't fret about the original film. It's well preserved, and can be printed in it's original form anytime the studio might wish.
RAH