Brian W.
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I finally bought the Blu-Ray today, and I have to say what bothers me even more than the missing dialogue is Pinocchio's shirt turning white during "I Got No Strings."
It absolutely is an accident, because when it first turns white, there is a bit of "crawling yellow" in the middle of his shirt, almost like pixelated yellow, which then disappears. I checked the old DVD, and no such thing occurs. It seems to be some sort of digital video noise reduction artifact. I can't believe no one noticed this anywhere in the making of this disc.
Aside from that, it looks incredible. I don't know that it looks like FILM... it looks, as did the "Sleeping Beauty" Blu-Ray, like they rephotographed it from the original cells. I do wonder about the contrast (seems a little low). The only thing besides the yellow shirt faux pas that I think they got really wrong was the glow around the Blue Fairy. What is up with that? It's more like a fog than a glow. When her star descends from the sky and into Gepetto's window, you can't even tell it's a star... it looks like a circular mist. I don't care what it looked like on the cells, on the original late '80s laserdisc, it looked like a bright star was coming down from the sky, and I believe that's the way it looked in the original release.
I could say the same about the glow of the coals in Gepetto's fire when Jiminy is walking up to it in the opening sequence. In the old DVD, they really looked like they were GLOWING. In the Blu-Ray, they look animated.
And I was surprised at how much I liked the Disney View feature. I loved it, actually. Very clever idea. I did find one or two of the frame borders distracting (the "stars" border at the opening when the camera moves into the book), but aside from that and a couple of errors (at 1:26:22, the frame changes color about two seconds after the shot change), I didn't think it detracted from the film at all.
It absolutely is an accident, because when it first turns white, there is a bit of "crawling yellow" in the middle of his shirt, almost like pixelated yellow, which then disappears. I checked the old DVD, and no such thing occurs. It seems to be some sort of digital video noise reduction artifact. I can't believe no one noticed this anywhere in the making of this disc.
Aside from that, it looks incredible. I don't know that it looks like FILM... it looks, as did the "Sleeping Beauty" Blu-Ray, like they rephotographed it from the original cells. I do wonder about the contrast (seems a little low). The only thing besides the yellow shirt faux pas that I think they got really wrong was the glow around the Blue Fairy. What is up with that? It's more like a fog than a glow. When her star descends from the sky and into Gepetto's window, you can't even tell it's a star... it looks like a circular mist. I don't care what it looked like on the cells, on the original late '80s laserdisc, it looked like a bright star was coming down from the sky, and I believe that's the way it looked in the original release.
I could say the same about the glow of the coals in Gepetto's fire when Jiminy is walking up to it in the opening sequence. In the old DVD, they really looked like they were GLOWING. In the Blu-Ray, they look animated.
And I was surprised at how much I liked the Disney View feature. I loved it, actually. Very clever idea. I did find one or two of the frame borders distracting (the "stars" border at the opening when the camera moves into the book), but aside from that and a couple of errors (at 1:26:22, the frame changes color about two seconds after the shot change), I didn't think it detracted from the film at all.