Pinocchio Comparison

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Signature Bluray Platinum Bluray Special Edition DVD Laserdisc
 

Cine-Explore Experience

A Picture-in-Picture video commentary with Eric Goldberg, Leonard Maltin, and J.B. Kaufman. 		 

Audio Commentary

The same documentary, without the PiP elements. 		 

No Strings Attached (HD, 56 minutes)

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the film's production and restoration. 		 

Deleted Scenes (1080p, 10:33)

Introduction, The Story of The Grandfather Tree, In The Belly Of The Whale, and Alternate Ending. 		 
 

Deleted Song (3 minutes)

Honest John, a deleted song. 		 

The Sweat Box (HD, 6 minutes)

A look at the so-called Sweatbox. 		 

Live Action Reference Footage (HD, 10 minutes)

Reference footage used by animators, with some narration. 		 
 

Disney View

New static artwork that fills in the black borders. 		 
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Pinocchio Art Galleries

Eight extensive galleries awith hundreds of production stills, concept art, storyboards, drawings, design work, and reference photographs. 		  Galleries with Gustaf Tenggren’s original concepts, plus animators’ models and model sheets for each character, inspirational paintings and completed backgrounds, publicity materials, including production stills, posters, paper clippings

Geppettos Then and Now (HD, 11 minutes)

The evolution of toymaking. 		 

Song Selection (1080p, 10:17)

"When You Wish Upon A Star," "Little Wooden Head," "Give A Little Whistle," "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee," and "I've Got No Strings." 		2 Sing-Along Songs  

Music Video (HD, 3 minutes)

"When You Wish Upon a Star" covered by Meaghan Jette Martin. 		 
 

Pinocchio's Matter of Facts

A pop-up trivia track. Fairly inaccurate according to Animated Views 		 
 

Pinocchio Knows Trivia Challenge

A multiplayer trivia game. 		 
Original Theatrical Trailer (1940) (480i, 1:52).
Theatrical Trailer (1984) (480i, 1:25).
Theatrical Trailer (1992) (480i, 1:33).		 Original 1940 Theatrical Trailer Original Theatrical Trailer (1940).
Theatrical Trailer (1984).
Theatrical Trailer (1992).
 

Pleasure Island Carnival Games

Arcade games. 		 
 

Pinocchio's Puzzles

Interactive puzzle game hosted by Jiminy Cricket. 		 

A Wish Come True: The Making of Pinocchio (480i, 5:06)

Same as on DVD. 		 

A Wish Come True: The Making of Pinocchio (480i, 5:06)

Short documentary. 		 

Storyboard-To-Film Final Comparison (480i, 4:04)

Compares storyboard and final scene for selected scenes. 		  Compare the final film to the Original Storyboard (Is it the same?) Storyboard to film comparison (Is it the same?)
The Pinocchio Project: When You Wish Upon A Star
The Project (1080p, 3:03): Making-of featurette for the music video.
The Video (1080p, 2:49): Music video version of Wish Upon A Star, with JR Aquino, Tanner Patrick, and Alex G. 		 

Walt's Story Meetings: Pleasure Island (1080p, 7:14)

Discussion about the Pleasure Island story meetings, recreated with archive recordings. 		 

In Walt's Words – Pinocchio (1080p, 4:48)

Archival footage from 1956 featuring Walt Disney discussing Pinocchio, the methods used in his studio to improve his team and create the film, and the impact of World War II on the studio. 		 

Oswald The Lucky Rabbit In "Poor Papa" (1080p, 5:19)

Classic Oswald Cartoon. 		 
 

Two educational shorts

"I'm No Fool Having Fun"
"I'm No Fool With Fire" 		 
 

The Making of a Masterpiece : Walt Disney's Pinocchio

Hosted by Robby Benson (the voice of the Beast from BatB). Duration of either 20 or 47 minutes, reports differ.
 

The Pinocchio comic strip (1940)

A still frame gallery of the entire comic.

Purist Remarks

1987 CAV Laserdisc/1985 VHS is unrestored. There's also the somewhat restored 1993 LD/1999 DVD/2000 Gold DVD version.

DVDBeaver's review of the Platinum Blu-ray contains a comparison with the included Platinum DVD and an older DVD release.

Notes

The Laserdisc still needs proper comparison.

Interesting things to add

Bonus content available elsewhere that might be neat to burn on a disc to further enhance the collection.

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