Pocahontas Comparison

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Bluray 10th Anniversary DVD Gold DVD LaserDisc

Pocahontas Audio Commentary

Audio commentary from 2003 with James Pentecost, Eric Goldberg and Mike Gabriel. 		 

Drawing Inspiration: The Lost Story of Hiawatha (HD, 12 minutes)

A featurette about a Disney animated movie that was never made. 		 

Deleted Song, "If I Never Knew You" (HD, 5 minutes)

Deleted song with optional commentary by Goldberg, Gabriel and Pentecost. 		Deleted song integrated in movie through seamless branching   46. Deleted Sequence: "If I Never Knew You"
(Analog Left And Right: Commentary By Eric Goldberg And Stephen Schwartz)

The Music of Pocahontas (SD, 7 minutes)

Featurette about the music and songs.		   The Music of Pocahontas

Deleted Scenes (SD, 15 minutes)

Nine deleted sceness.		   6. Sequence Breakdown And Storyboards
7. Storyboards: Sequence 5.7 -- Ship Landing
8. Storyboards: Sequence 11 -- Pocahontas And John Smith Meet
9. Storyboards: Sequence 14 -- "Color Of The Wind"
10. Storyboards: Sequence 28 -- "Savages (Part 2)"
11. Storyboards: Sequence 29 -- The Execution
12. Storyboards: Sequence 30 -- Farewell (I think)

Little Hiawatha (SD, 9 minutes)

A Silly Symphony cartoon. 		 
 

The Making of Pocahontas (28 minutes)

Documentary about the production of the film.
Side 4 - The Making Of "Pocahontas"
 

Early Presentation Reel (3:45)

1992 reel with concept art and an early demo version of "Colors of the Wind".		   5. Frankfurt Book Fair Presentation Reel
 

Storyboard-to-Film Comparison (1 minute)

Pocahontas and John Smith's first meeting with split screen.		   13. Storyboards To Film Comparision: Sequence 11 -- Pocahontas And John Smith Meet
 

Production Progression

A 37 second scene of Pocahontas's big dive through the four stages of production: Storyreel, Rough Animation, Clean Animation, and Final Color. Switch with the Angle button. 		  4. History Of The Production Of "Pocahontas" (I think)
  13 sections mostly on the different characters of the film. Most of the characters are accompanied by a short featurette ported over from laserdisc and centering on comments from the supervising animator. Each of the 13 sections delivers a gallery of conceptual art. This is presented as it is on most Disney animated films' DVDs, with thumbnails (9 to each uniform page) that can be viewed at a larger size by selecting them. The volume of artwork here is particularly impressive The galleries provide as follows: Pocahontas (148 stills), John Smith (78 stills), Ratcliffe (81 stills), Powhatan (42 stills), Grandmother Willow (35 stills), Meeko (24 stills), Flit (16 stills), Percy (21 stills), Thomas (27 stills), Kocoum (30 stills), Kekata (18 stills), deleted character Redfeather (17 stills), and Art Design, Layouts & Backgrounds (a whopping 250 stills). Altogether, that's just shy of 800 stills, which makes Pocahontas's Design section a concept art fan's dream. The artwork provides a mixture of things. There are model sheets, photographs of three-dimensional models, rough sketches, fully-colored planning art.   23. Character Design: Introduction
24. Character Design: Pocahontas
25. Character Design: John Smith
28. Character Design: Ratcliffe
29. Character Design: Powhatan
30. Character Design: Grandmother Willow
31. Character Design: Meeko
32. Character Design: Flit
33. Character Design: Percy
34. Character Design: Thomas
35. Character Design: Kocoum
36. Character Design: Nakoma
37. Character Design: Wiggins
38. Character Design: Kekata
39. Character Design: Miscellaneous
40. Deleted Characters
41. Art Design, Layouts And Backgrounds
42. Prop Designs
43. Computer-Generated Imagery
44. Animation
 

Creating Pocahontas (4:20)

,Comparison of Disney's Pocahontas with the historical Pocahontas.		   3. The Historical Pocahontas (I think)
 

Creating John Smith (2:15)

The inspirations for the fictional version of John Smith.		  
 

Creating Ratcliffe (0:40)

Mostly repeats from the making-of featurette. 		 
 

Creating Grandmother Willow (2:08)

Especially about the fusion between 2D animation and CGI.		  
 

Creating Meeko (1:40)

 
 

Creating Flit (0:55)

With Dave Pruiksma		  
 

Creating Percy (0:54)

 
 

Creating Art Design, Layouts & Backgrounds (2:12)

 
 

Tests

For Ratcliffe, Grandmother Willow, Meeko, Flit, Thomas, Kekata, and the deleted character Redfeather.		  
 

If I Never Knew You music video (4:10)

Featuring Jon Secada and Shanice.		  
 

The Making of 'If I Never Knew You' (4:33)

 
 

Dancing to the Wedding Drum (1:57)

Alternative introduction to the film		   15. Abandoned Concept: Sequence 2.3 -- "Dancing To The Wedding Drum" (Analog Left And Right: Commentary By Stephen Schwartz)
 

In the Middle of the River (4 minutes)

Duet between Pocahontas and John Smith rejected in favor of "If I Never Knew You".		   20. Abandoned Concept: Sequence 21 -- "In The Middle Of The River" (Analog Left And Right: Commentary By James Pentecost, Stephen Schwarz, Carl Binder And Eric Goldberg)
  Other noteworthy sequences include an alternate of the Englishmen's reprise of "The Virginia Company" following Thomas' rescue, Pocahontas learning how Englishwomen dress, John Smith escaping from captivity with some help from Pocahontas, and a transition into and reprise of "Just Around the Riverbend."   14. Abandoned Concept: Sequence 2 -- Below Deck After Thomas' Rescue
16. Abandoned Concept: Sequence 4.5 -- Transition To "Just Around The Riverbend"
17. Early Concept: Sequence 14 -- "Colors Of The Wind" (Analog Left And Right: Commentary By Stephen Schwartz)
18. Abandoned Concept: Sequence 15 -- Pocahontas Dresses As An Englishwoman
19. Abandoned Concept: Sequence 4.5 -- Wiggins Gets Mud Thrown At Him
21. Abandoned Concept: Sequence 26 -- John Smith Escapes (Analog Left And Right: Commentary By Carl Binder And Eric Goldberg)
22. Abandoned Concept: Sequence 25 -- "Just Around The Riverbend" Reprise
  a collection of short bits mostly involving Ratcliffe and Wiggins and mostly offering variations on existing moments in the film.   45. Miscellaneous Deleted Animation (Analog Left And Right: Commentary By Eric Goldberg, Stephen Schwartz, Mike Gabriel And Michael Giaimo) (I think these might be the collection of short bits)
  Two theatrical trailers Theatrical Trailer 38. Theatrical Trailer #1: "Colors Of The Wind"
39. Theatrical Trailer #2
  Premiere in Central Park" (3:45)   Premiere in Central Park"
  "Colors Of The Wind" (3:33) -- Multi Language Presentation   "Colors Of The Wind" -- Multi Language Presentation
 

publicity gallery (18 stills)

Posters, notices for exhibitions (e.g. El Capitan Theatre's Pocahontas Summer Spectacular and the New York Premiere in the Park), and the Pocahontas fashion spread in the June 1995 issue of Harper's Bazaar.		   47. Publicity, Promotion And Advertising
 

"Colors of the Wind" (4:10)

Pop music video		  
 

Sing along songs

"Colors of the Wind" (3:20) and "Just Around the Riverbend" (2:15).		  
 

Disney's Art Project

Arts and crafts projects for children.		  
 

Follow Your Heart

Game		  
  Trivia game  
  Interactive storybook.  
  The "Pocahontas" Animation Discovery Adventure Tour (what is this?)

Purist Remarks

Likely directly exported from CAPS. The 2005 DVD has an extra song that was deleted late into production.

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