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Topic: 3/14/08 Jim on Film: Bring on the Bonus Features

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1	Admin Sat 3/15/2008 8:15a	This topic is for Discussion of: 3/14/08 Jim on Film: Bring on the Bonus Features
2	DBitz2 Sat 3/15/2008 8:15a	All very good suggestions, Jim. I would like to see Herbie Day at Disneyland, a special promoting Herbie Rides Again, as a bonus feature on the DVD of that movie. I recently ran across it on YouTube. It has footage of Herbie all around Disneyland, a decorated Volkwagon parade, and even features the opening ceremonies for America Sings. If they ever revisit the bonus materials on The Love Bug, I would like to see them include a visit to Paramount Ranch and the old racetrack there, parts of which still exist. Part of the racetrack was used in some El Dorado Race sequences in The Love Bug. Paramount Ranch is one location from the film that fans can visit because it is now a National Park. (Dean Jones incorrectly identifies one of the Paramount Ranch scenes in his commentary as being Laguna Seca raceway) There are still a few behind the scenes or promotional anthology episodes that could/should be included with the films they promoted. My personal feeling on the recent lessening of bonus content, even on newer films that should have more material available, is that I think they are holding back on material for now, then as they start releasing titles onto Blue Ray, will include more bonus materials to attempt to entice folks, especially fans, into buying the Blue Ray editions. This sort of manipulation bothers me a great deal. I have no facts to back this up. It's just a gut feeling based on observing other ways they've manipulated consumers. (Like including "exclusive" store specific bonus disks in some releases, which, in themselves are kind of slim on content.)
3	DrShrinker Sat 3/15/2008 11:45a	I was stunned to see an ad for a Platinum Edition of Sleeping Beauty coming this fall...it wasn't that long ago that the "Collector's Edition" or "Special Edition" or whatever it was, was made. And it's a great set. Meanwhile, NO Pinocchio? All of the other early Disney features have had one or more really spectacular DVD releases, but no Pinocchio? What's up with that???
4	mawnck Sat 3/15/2008 6:50p	>>I think they are holding back on material for now, then as they start releasing titles onto Blue Ray<< Nope. They're holding back on material because their customer surveys have found that the mainstream audience doesn't watch it. And they've run out of stuff from the laserdiscs to inexpensively port over and/or re-edit. But I bet you just gave them an idea, thanks a heap. There are some divisions of Disney that STILL don't get it, huh. ;-) Dr. Shrinker (BTW, how are them shrinkies?), I don't have inside info, but the early reappearance of Sleeping Beauty was probably because, of all the "classic" animated features, it would best show off the HD picture from BluRay, since it was filmed in super-sharp Technirama 70. I will be buying a BluRay player specifically in honor of this release - that's how excited I am. Hope they don't mess it up. (The disc or the player.) Pinocchio is the next Platinum after Sleeping Beauty, IIRC, and it should be in both formats. Patience. I saw "Sweatbox", and it contains the entire "Snuff Out the Light" number in pencil-test form. It's awesome. Allow me to add my clamor to the clamoring for its release. On the BluRay for Emperor's, howboutit? Kthx. PS: Dearest Disney people, when we ever gonna see the censored verse from the Dwarfs' Yodel Song? Considering that it's now apparently OK to digitally insert fart gags in 101 Dalmatians commercials, I don't think the verse in question is likely to generate much controversy. In fact, you'll probably have to explain what it means for most viewers under the age of 70. PSS: Here's a great bonus feature for "Million Dollar Duck" - Song of the South. NOBODY WOULD EVEN NOTICE! >:-D
5	Jim Sun 3/16/2008 12:54p	Thank you all for reading. But now you have to tell us of the censored verse from the "Yodel Song." I've never even heard of anything related to that. FYI, I probably found out somewhere on here, but you can find the censored centaurettes from FANTASIA on You Tube. I saved them using the LFV player (www.keepvid.com).
6	mawnck Sun 3/16/2008 7:38p	>>But now you have to tell us of the censored verse from the "Yodel Song." I've never even heard of anything related to that.<< A minute after I was born I didn't have a nightie So I tied my whiskers round my legs And I used them for a dia-dee. I believe it was sung by Sneezy. It got Snow White banned in Boston (yes, literally), so they snipped it out of the Boston prints. It's since disappeared from the film totally, but there are still soundtrack 78s from the original release that include it.
7	Jim Sun 3/16/2008 7:51p	Very interesting! In all I've read about this movie, which is a fair amount, I've never heard that.
8	mawnck Sun 3/16/2008 8:40p	I'm constantly amazed that it's the one piece of Disney censorship that NEVER gets brought up, especially since recordings of it still exist. I've been told that this particular CD: http://product.half.ebay.com/S now-White-The-Seven-Dwarfs_W0QQprZ3137160QQtgZinfo is mastered from a set of the original 78s and contains the verse. Sound quality is said to be dreadful. (And thanks for the reminder - I've been meaning to order a copy to check it out. And I just did.)

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