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By the time the un-restored Blu-ray came out, he had been gone from the company for nearly a decade.

Well, ironically, it's one time you can't blame Michael Eisner!

And to this day, nobody can pinpoint exactly who made that call.

They still have yet to actually find and replace the missing footage to The Black Cauldron, though, so nothing longer than what Jeffrey Katzenberg reduced it to in 1985 has ever been released. Not so with Bedknobs. They put it back together on film and re-registered it for copyright, which I'm...

Maybe they're saving it for the end of the year. Or maybe it'll come next year. The 25th anniversary laserdisc, the home video debut of the longest cut, missed the actual 25th anniversary and didn't come out until April 2, 1997. I still have the copy I got for my birthday that year from...

We wouldn't even be having this conversation without it, and they know it. They knew it when they hired Angela Lansbury to sing "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in Toontown for this 1993 CBS-TV special.* And it's obvious that when Disney started asking "What would Walt do," they focused on what he did...

There were only 22 minutes of animation, the exact same amount as the two hybrids before and after it. When they cut the film down to two hours, they spared both that and every VFX shot except a false start of the bed the first time it takes off.

If they had, it would have turned up in one of the YouTube compilations by now.

What the latter was accused of reusing wasn't from Disney.

And didn't some other movie about a feline monarch face similar accusations?

Disney started reusing animation at least as far back as the animated short Goliath II in 1960. Very obvious reuse of shots from "Baby Mine" in Dumbo. So it all started before Walt died.

Not quite. Those monkeys didn't have frazzled hair, but that same pencil-heavy style was the default for everything from One Hundred and One Dalmatians until The Rescuers:

I meant a musical instrument.

Doing seamless branching here would be a more complex task because they didn't just add scenes. They re-arranged existing scenes, and they reinstated underscore where there wasn't any before. In one scene, they did the opposite and actually dropped two bars of underscore after an animated monkey...

Those wires can easily be removed digitally without crossing the line into Star Wars-level of visual alterations. No different than removing the wire holding up the Cowardly Lion's tail in The Wizard of Oz. And speaking of which, I figured out how they can make the voices match better for any...

The 2000 Fantasia DVD was an attempt to reconstruct the 1940 premiere cut of 125 minutes (minus Sunflower the Centaur) but with it necessary to get Corey Burton, who did some of the redubs here, to redub Deems Taylor's original narration. The default cut, for which the actual voice of Deems...

It's the same thing they did to Fantasia, which was released in 1940 when Bedknobs was set. That at one point got cut below 90 minutes! Except that was when RKO still distributed Disney films.

That's a 42-minute gap between the longest and shortest versions (yet still shorter than any Harry Potter movie). That amounts to a little over 30% of the movie they've played musical chairs with. The studio got so spooked by the disappointing box office returns of Millionaire that got worse...

The US, for one thing. We got this 97-minute version in its only theatrical reissue in 1979. Most European countries, the UK, and IIRC Australia got this version on home video at first. The poster advertised a "new revised version." I have no idea how long it was when it played Australian...

It wasn't. They just used that word because there was a shorter version created. That was just the most complete version available at the time. It gets even more confusing because The Happiest Millionaire actually got restored first, but that actually-uncut version was a Disney Channel exclusive...

It should be the opposite with all the technology they have now they didn't have in the 1990s. Ironically, it's the hybrids that seem to have escaped the overt grain removal that plagues many animated features and hit the 1960s/1970s ones hard. It's like they tried to tone down the...

They've jerked around with every "other" Disney hybrid to one degree or another. Pete's Dragon has never even been released uncut on video and still has about 5 minutes unaccounted for. Unlike Song of the South, they still let out So Dear to My Heart but they downplay its existence as much as...

Supposedly it already is there in the same semi-coherent 117-minute theatrical cut already on Blu-ray and any number of now-obsolete video formats. The studio didn't even stop there when they reissued it with more cuts at the end of the decade, and some countries got that version on video! They...