Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

[Phil Moors]

Hello,

A while back I owned a flat version of this Disney cartoon. A flat version of the first cartoon in Cinemascope? It had good colour and sound and I understand Walt Disney had a flat version filmed at the same time as not all theatres could show Cinemascope. At a Blackpool convention in the past I sold it and also purchased the scope one in the auction.

When viewed the sound and colour were good but the clarity was soft. It was a disappointment. I doubt it was a Derann print, did anyone else release this? And does anyone own the Derann print and could they review it?

[Mike Newell]

Derann released mono and stereo versions of this title both were in scope. A flat version is unusual which suggests another dealer either UK or US.

[Steve Klare]

I have a late Derann print of Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom: it has to be one of the most channel-specific stereo prints that exists. Particularly when the four cavemen are playing music left to right, the sound shifts completely left, center-left, center-right and right.

-where I ran into trouble here is buying it before I owned a twin-track machine. On a monaural projector "left, center-left, center-right and right" become "loud, quieter, quieter still, and dead silent".

The only other place I've come close to this is Fantasia 2000, where Bette Midler is introducing the next section. She's mostly in the right channel, so on a single-track projector you wish she'd speak up! (Other than this, the movie is just fine through a single-track machine, just like most stereo prints.)

[Graham Ritchie]

I have the Derann Scope stereo print and image wise is first class, Derann only released it in the Scope format.

[Phil Moors]

Thanks Mike, Steve and Grahame I will have to keep an eye out for it. For anyone that has never seen it it is a special feature on the Fantasia 2000 dvd and also is on Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts: 1920s–1960s which is available in the US but very scarce in the UK. It is also on YouTube.

[Osi Osgood]

I have an Italian print ( from years ago ) of this cartoon, that I still haven't rerecorded, but the image quality is pretty good, not Derann good, but good. It's LPP as well