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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
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Subject: Re: Walt Disney's Fantasia?
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Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 10:26:20 EST
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Not available yet to my knowledge and I follow the releases in Video mag
every month. You have been able to buy the records for some years. But
probably no more. Last I heard Disney, inc had really screwed it all up.
Years ago they screwed up the visuals by blowing them up and lopping off
the top and botgtom to fit the new cinemascope screens. Perhaps they
preserved a print or two of the original so they can back away from that
fiasco.
Then, the last I heard, they had decided in their infinite stupidity, to
rerecord the sound with another orchestra and "modern" techniques. People
who saw it said the music sounded "o.k." but no longer synched with the
film. I have records mixed down to two channel stereo from the original
6 or 8 channel process. I never thought they had anything to be ashamed
of sonically.
I saw the original film in 1939 as a 9 year old kid at the Radio City
(old ??) in Minneapolis. that was a scaled down version of Radio City 
music hall in NYC. THey took the theater down foe a month to install the specialsound system (surround sound they would call it today) and screen about
one acre in size (but with the standard aspect ratio). It was fabulous.
I iused to resee the film everytime it was rereleased until they butchered
it in the 50's, I think it was.
If they put it back to the original sound and picture, in the hi-fi
process (either beta or vhs) it should be perfect on a vcr. I would 
certainly buy one.
Disney, however, as you probably know, is very slow to release anything
in video cassette.

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