I may actually buy this. Sleeping Beauty has always been, for me, one of the most beautiful of Disney's animations. Thanks for the info and the screen caps!

As soon as I get a second to breathe, I'll be buying both the DVD (to watch now) and the Blu-Ray (to watch someday when I have the equipment).

As for the December 12th opening, I smell meat ...er, meet!



But as for those screen caps ... well, one of the things I always judge a Sleeping Beauty restoration on is that shot with King Hubert sitting forlornly on the castle steps after Prince Phillip has told him he won't be marrying Princess Aurora. In many versions, the steps are gloriously multicolor ... and indeed this very new restoration many of us saw at the El Cap a few weeks ago had the steps in muted, but acceptably multi-color hues. Yet in the screen cap of the supposedly same restoration, the steps are all in similar hues of red. I call shenanigans!!!! What's up with that???

The first edition Blu-Ray has a copy of the movie on DVD taped to the front of the case (under the slipcover). I blogged about it on pocketsymphony.com.

I thought I saw a pack that had both Blu-ray and DVD in it. I could be wrong about that, but might be something to look for if you intend to get both.

Thanks, I hope it's still that way when I finally get around to buying it. Kinda tied up this week.

It's possible in previous versions the colors were oversaturated & when they restored it the last time, they accidentally made all the steps similar shades of pink to make them match. I took that particular screen cap cause I knew it would get your attention ;).

Um, as for a meet, let's wait til the week after to make sure the walkthrough has officially reopened. It could be part of our annual Christmas swanking. Saturday December 20th sound doable ?

Well, if you would stop playing your kinky sex games, you might have a little more free time on your hands!

Ha, if only. So Isaac, why does your purposely included (thanks) screen cap show the steps in similar shades of pink when the restoration I saw at the El Cap had the multi-color steps I love (albeit much more muted than in previous versions.)


The steps is what, fairly or unfairly, I judge the restorations on. Because it's my theory that restorers simply make up the colors as they go along ... wish really, really, seriously bothers me since color styling was something vital to Disney animation and was carefully considered, designed and executed by the artists.

The same character in the same costume might have 20 different sets of color stylings, for how they would look under different lighting conditions.


Oi.


If the restorers are simply making up the colors, it is NOT a restoration.

Is there any way at this point to know what is correct? If any original prints still exist, their color accuracy is not reliable. Unless somebody documented what the original colors where in every sequence using some numeric valuation*, I don't know if we will ever know what the original colors where.



* In the printing industry we use the Pantone Matching System (with the unfortunate acronym of PMS), but I know that this PMS system was not in place when Sleeping Beauty was made.