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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 12, 2013 12:36 PM
There is a very RARE version and incredibly hard to find.
In Italy, there were two versions of "Fantasia" released, 6X600ft (a very thick eastman stock was used), which was the whole film with the narraration included ...
... and a VERY rare 4X400ft version. This one was from a rare RKO 1942 release print and was the shortened version that RKO put out a year or so after Disney's original run of the film. Some or all of the musical numbers are slightly edited, (though, if you had never heard their original form, you'd never notice the differences, it was a good edit overall), without the Deems Taylor nararration ...
... but what makes it incredibly rare is that it has all the pre-censorship footage, which means you get the black servant "centuarettes" serving the white "centuarettes" (that's probably mis-spelled) in the "pastoral symphony" segment, as well as the few others shots that they are in. Obviously, that would be considered politically incorrect these days and this footage didn't stay in the feature for very long, judging by the re-issue cuts of the film.
The funny thing is that for the last 15 years or so, Disney has been re-releasing this film is the "complete original restored film" which it is not.
You can tell where the footage is at. have you ever noticed a certain shot or two during the pastoral symphony, where this is a close-up of a centuarette doing her nails (I believe) and the image is suddenly very grainy? mIt's because they came in real close on that shot and got rid of the other centuarette at her feet.
This print is very hard to find and even worse, was printed on Eastman film stock before LPP, so all the prints will have various states of fade (mine is passable, but a little faded), unless you are incredibly lucky.
Here's link to a you tube video showing much of it, but the black centuarette was also shown a little later on as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdi3zX9DKm8
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