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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: Mon, 18-Mar-85 14:13:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 14:13:58 1985
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I gave up going to Fantasia (after 6 or 7 times) when they ruined the visuals
by blowing up the pictures to fill the cinemascope screen horizontally and
lopping off the top and bottom to fit. THen, to fit the smaller screens they
lopped off the ends of the cinemascope version. The result was only the central portions of the original beautiful pictures and very grainy prints.
Someone please let me know when and if they go back to the original prints.
There is always hope. The recent  issue of GWTW on videocassette uses a
brand new never before used color print obtained from a recently discovered
color intermaster that was mislabelled and lost in a corner of a vault in
Philadelphia, if I remember the story correctly. Apparently all other
original intermasters and masters had long since been used up, so the 
videotape (and any 35mm prints made for a while) are of better quality
than the commercial releases have been.

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