That's good to hear, especially considering that when Disney released Fantasia in 2000, it had to that insert talking about how the age of the source material resulted in artifacts and such that couldn't be removed without changing the quality of the movie (or something like that). Here's hoping that 10 years later they're able to fix this now!goofystitch wrote:With the theatrical release [of BATB 3-D] no longer a conflict for the Home Entertainment division, they were free to rearrange the schedule. The real reason for switching Beauty and the Beast to Spring was to spend more time on Fantasia's restoration.
Given how much was already offered from the Anthology set, I'm not too disappointed. And in the Anthology insert, Roy E. Disney even says this: "Over the course of the DVD production, it became clear that our hardest decision would be what to leave out. As it is, this DVD set contains over 11 hours of content in addition to both versions of Fantasia."goofystitch wrote:In addition, my friend heard that they weren't planning many new bonus features for Fantasia because it would be a 2-disc Blu-Ray, with disc 1 being the original film and all of the previous bonus features for that film, and disc 2 being Fantasia 2000 and all of the previous bonus features for that film. While both films had great releases before, it's still sad to hear that they aren't planning new bonus features for the set. This should also come as a disappointment to those who expected a 2-disc set for each film.
So I'm hoping it's safe to assume that all the material they compiled in 2000 but couldn't put on the DVD will be included in the Blu-Ray.
The only way I can think of them adding *new* bonus features would be to do what they did with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which is dump the old documentary and create a new one in HD. The caveat of that, unfortunately, is that it might be overpopulated with contemporary Disney filmmakers/animators who spend more time praising the film rather than talking about its production and animation.
If they do have a chance to shoot some new features, what I'd really love is a longer featurette about the Process Lab, as it's only 4 minutes in the Anthology boxset (but packs more information in its 4 minutes than other special-effects featurettes thrice as long on other DVDs). In addition, there's loads of trailers that can be included (such as the one that appears in the queue line for The Great Movie Ride), and surely they can update the galleries to include more artwork and stuff. Also, they can easily include excerpts like "Blue Bayou" from Make Mine Music (to show the comparison between "Clair de Lune" and "Blue Bayou"), "Bumble Boogie" from Melody Time (as "Flight of the Bumblebee" was a dropped short from the film), and there's plenty of other shorts mentioned in books and even in Fantasia 2000 that they could include concept art for.
albert