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Topic: Fantasia full length print No Longer Available
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 04, 2016 11:07 AM
It's fairly rare Miguel, and only found in Italy. I have a print of that. It has some fade, but not too bad, but it really is cool to see that original footage, to be sure ...
But beware that this specific print is the shortened RKO print that was re-released a year after Fantasia's original run of two hours, shortened down to about 1 hour and 15 or 20 minutes, (yeah) What is amazing about it, is that this was a print that was evidently "chopped up" and someone painstakingly spliced it all back together. It really is rare and will never be reprinted again, to be sure.
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted April 08, 2016 11:36 AM
Yes Miguel, it has the "black Centurette" in that version. Actually, this edit of the feature (from, as you correctly stated, one year later), was actually RKO's edit and it wasn't something that Walt Disney was very happy with, it was one of the things that led Disney to starting his own "Buena Vista" label, as he HATED the idea that someone else would dare to edit down his films. I don't blame him.
The funny thing about this missing footage is you really don't realize that it's missing from the modern printings of this feature, but it does explain how the carpet "mysteriously" rolls itself out when Bachaues approaches his throne. In this original footage, that black centaurette rolls it out and then, when Bachaues is starting to fall off his throne, she props him up.
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