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bob kaplan

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i watched FANTASIA for the zillionth time last night...i enjoy it a lot.
This question is only to learn how each of the three (i think) edits were done with the Pastoral....not to comment on the correctness or incorrectness of the edits.
The first is easy to see....it was just zoomed in and they fixed the color intensity too. But i am having trouble figuring the other edits. Seems like there is actually a chunk of film missing but the music, to my untrained ear, continues along smoothly. What was done???
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An optical zoom in on characters to remove sterotypical characters. On previous releases, you'll notice an increase in the size of film grain, but less so on the BD release.

Could a mod move this thread to the general blu-ray category?
 

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ooooooops!!! you are right... wrong place....gheese!!! can you imagine the over-reaction from those not reading and jumping to the conclusion that Fantasia was going to be released in 3D!! sorry!
 

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Text taken from DVDizzy's review:
Another noteworthy change involves the infamous Sunflower character. In the original "Pastoral Symphony" sequence, one of the centaurettes was a servant girl who bore more than a few qualities of the popular African American stereotypes from the production era. She was awkwardly edited out for the 1969 re-release. For the 50th anniversary reissue in 1990, the edits were still noticeable but done more smoothly. This new 2010 release handles the edits in the best way, yet.
At 1:19:32, the image is cleanly cropped with the tiny portion of the character's head that would've made it in digitally removed.
The frame slowly and convincingly zooms in elsewhere at 1:20:44 unlike the more artificial zooms and pans found on the 2000 DVD.
A shot in which Sunflower was the sole focus is cut, so to make the now out-of-synch music catch up, 1:21:18 skillfully repeats two shots in succession.
1:21:23 marks the first time the character has been digitally removed from the frame in question, keeping the framing intact and without the extreme close-up found on the last release.
Finally, 1:26:24 digitally erases her again, allowing for a carpet to magically (and fittingly) unroll itself.
http://www.dvdizzy.com/fantasia-fantasia2000-2moviecollection.html
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