Disney may have censored the knobby knee that was mistaken for something else from the new DVD version of The Little Mermaid (1989) … but they forgot to censor the making-of documentary on Disc 2 which makes use of this shot! Since both versions of this shot are on this set, I figured I’d capture them myself, instead of relying on other people’s images as I did in my earlier post.
First, the original image, which is a little blurrier because it comes from a letterboxed image and was not originally anamorphic:
Second, the new image, anamorphic and without cropping:
I love it when discs slip up like this. Something similar happened with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001); the DVD version of the film itself digitally erases a car that was in the background of one shot, but you can still see it in a making-of feature that uses that shot. And songs like ‘Happy Birthday’ were eliminated from the Wallace & Gromit short The Wrong Trousers (1992), due to copyright issues, but you can still hear them in the background on the commentary track on the Warner DVD.
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