Disney DVD Question

[tofur69]

Disney is notorius for this tactic. Up until the late 80's they used to release most of their MAJOR animated titles at least every 7 years. SNOW WHITE being one of the ones used most. I my lifetime, I have seen it in theatres at least 3 times with the last release in 1987 when I was just a projectionist. It sold out the first couple of weekends. My only gripe of the last couple of releases is that the theatres cropped down the Academy Frame aspect ratio to Flat (1.85:1). The theatres at the time could not open the masking or the aperture to show the proper aspect ratio. At least FANTASIA in 1990 had the proper aspect ratio.

The home video market has completel changed this. Disney created "The Vault" to create a false sense of hype to video releases. "This is your last chance to to get this classic movie before it returns to the vault. Hurry Now". Blah blah blah.