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I waited until today to recycle the paper that accumulated over the last few months...
I buy the Disney daily calendar every year 'cause I enjoy seeing different Disney art every day. Occasionally they throw in a piece of pre-production concept art which is cool as well.
A couple of years ago I started an Excel spreadsheet to track which films get the most exposure, just for the heck of it. (Actually, I'd like to write a story on the subject, but I was rebuffed the last time I queried the publisher.) This year two films were each shown 13 times, vs. films receiving a single or a handful of appearances, or just flat-out ignored.
Frozen showed up 13 times, no surprise. (God I hate that goony snowman, his page went right into the trash every time he appeared.) But the other most-seen film: 1950's Cinderella, for no particular reason I can think of.
It also seems like every year one glaring error makes it past the editors and into the calendar, like identifying concept art of Flower's girlfriend as Flower himself, or misidentifying the scene concept art of Aladdin's genie is from. (probably easier to get wrong because they're sketches and not actual moments from the film.)
This year's was a whopper by comparison: On December 19 a film frame of young Bambi discovering snow for the 1st time was captioned:
...The young fawn is delighted to discover that his paws leave a trail in the snow...
Boy, Walt would've blown his stack over that one!
I buy the Disney daily calendar every year 'cause I enjoy seeing different Disney art every day. Occasionally they throw in a piece of pre-production concept art which is cool as well.
A couple of years ago I started an Excel spreadsheet to track which films get the most exposure, just for the heck of it. (Actually, I'd like to write a story on the subject, but I was rebuffed the last time I queried the publisher.) This year two films were each shown 13 times, vs. films receiving a single or a handful of appearances, or just flat-out ignored.
Frozen showed up 13 times, no surprise. (God I hate that goony snowman, his page went right into the trash every time he appeared.) But the other most-seen film: 1950's Cinderella, for no particular reason I can think of.
It also seems like every year one glaring error makes it past the editors and into the calendar, like identifying concept art of Flower's girlfriend as Flower himself, or misidentifying the scene concept art of Aladdin's genie is from. (probably easier to get wrong because they're sketches and not actual moments from the film.)
This year's was a whopper by comparison: On December 19 a film frame of young Bambi discovering snow for the 1st time was captioned:
...The young fawn is delighted to discover that his paws leave a trail in the snow...
Boy, Walt would've blown his stack over that one!
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I finally got a blu ray player and a flat screen TV. I haven't figured out how to unsquish early cartoons on DVD to 4x3 aspect ratios. Blu ray takes care of this fine but Disney won't release all their old shorts on Blu ray. Sometimes I think they want us to forget their early animation! I've never seen Frozen, so I'm probably not in their demographic.
I was planning to skip the film from the first glimpse of snowman in the posters, but read some review about how the film didn't have a guy coming to her rescue, so my date and I thought it would be worth checking out on that basis - big mistake.
Are you saying your set-up automatically stretches out 4:3 to 16:9? That's really weird, I don't think it should be doing that automatically.
My blu-ray player doesn't stretch 4:30 out to fill my flatscreen set. (Problem might be in your TV - is it a 4K? Mine is still a 1080.) It's maybe 3-4 years old by now. It has a function that doesn't shrink 16:9 down to 4:3 (it can s-t-r-e-t-c-h images into ultra widescreen by distorting them, but who needs that?) There might be a control on your player or set that needs to be reset. Check your manuals or go online - other people may have had the same problem and figured out a solution.
Are you saying your set-up automatically stretches out 4:3 to 16:9? That's really weird, I don't think it should be doing that automatically.
My blu-ray player doesn't stretch 4:30 out to fill my flatscreen set. (Problem might be in your TV - is it a 4K? Mine is still a 1080.) It's maybe 3-4 years old by now. It has a function that doesn't shrink 16:9 down to 4:3 (it can s-t-r-e-t-c-h images into ultra widescreen by distorting them, but who needs that?) There might be a control on your player or set that needs to be reset. Check your manuals or go online - other people may have had the same problem and figured out a solution.
I just got both of these yesterday, so I am only learning. Blu rays all play correctly, but DVD's don't at this point. I need to do more searching. Right now, wide screen DVD's play fine but 4x3's fill the screen. The new Bugs Bunny 80th anniversary Blu Ray looks great! Up until yesterday, I only had a 27" Sony CRT with poor sound and a DVD player. I am now trying to enter the 21st century for the new year!
I'm sure you'll come across the magic button sooner or later.
I have all 6 "Golden" box DVD collections and at the beginning you can supposedly choose between full frame and expanded, but when you get to that menu page all the cartoons are asterisked "available full frame only" - go figure.
The resolution's pretty good on them, can't imagine how much better they can make drawn cartoons look - there's only so much detail in them vs live action films. In one Bugs cartoon there's a close-up of an actual newspaper page they slapped a phony headline or story on - but the resolution is so good you can read the newspaper's classified ads, plenty of which say "Whites Only."
I suspect the cartoon was made late 40's/early 50s, will have to go back and take a look at it - IIRC it's the one where Bugs is upset there's a tiny bounty on rabbits versus other animals, so he goes on a crime spree to raise the rabbit bounty.
I have all 6 "Golden" box DVD collections and at the beginning you can supposedly choose between full frame and expanded, but when you get to that menu page all the cartoons are asterisked "available full frame only" - go figure.
The resolution's pretty good on them, can't imagine how much better they can make drawn cartoons look - there's only so much detail in them vs live action films. In one Bugs cartoon there's a close-up of an actual newspaper page they slapped a phony headline or story on - but the resolution is so good you can read the newspaper's classified ads, plenty of which say "Whites Only."
I suspect the cartoon was made late 40's/early 50s, will have to go back and take a look at it - IIRC it's the one where Bugs is upset there's a tiny bounty on rabbits versus other animals, so he goes on a crime spree to raise the rabbit bounty.
Zootopia made 12 appearances last year (only 1 less than Cinderella or Frozen), from 23-Jan to 30-Nov.
By comparison Zootopia made 13 appearances in 2018. Sounds a bit more impressive - but Frozen showed up 17 times that year.
(Y'know, sometimes I kinda wish I actually had a life...)
By comparison Zootopia made 13 appearances in 2018. Sounds a bit more impressive - but Frozen showed up 17 times that year.
(Y'know, sometimes I kinda wish I actually had a life...)
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