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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Ruined Music - actually ruined profits
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 00:11:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 00:11:01 1985
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Walt Disney's Fantasia (I saw the original and spazed out) was
initially a financial flop. It seems the people who disliked
classical music disliked Fantasia because of the music. Those who
supposedly liked classical music were exercised about his choice
of cartoon images.  How DARE he...etc. Going on half a century later,
most people can accept it for what it was.
Irony - the Disney peolple in their desparation for money appear to
have ruined  the film. First by blowing up and masking the pictures
to some wild new format, then by rerecording the sound out of synch.
I doubt very much if they even have an original print anymore. Each
frame was exquisite, suitable for framing. The sound was like 7 track
stereo with surround sound. Like three of the tracks were volume control
tracks giving an effect like dbx noise reduction. I have some stereo
discs somewhere that still sound quite respectable. If they could
put it out today like it was in 1939, they wouldn't have to
apologize to anyone for technical quality.

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