Glenn Kenny posted some images from the upcoming “70th Anniversary Edition” of Pinocchio (1940; my comments) today, so I thought I would capture the equivalent frames (or as close to them as I could get) from the existing “Limited Issue” DVD, which came out ten years ago, to see how the images compare.
The images on the left are from the 1999 version, and the images on the right are from the 2009 version, as per Kenny’s blog post (the first image is a photograph that he took of his TV screen while playing the Blu-Ray, and the other two are screen captures taken directly from the bonus DVD that comes with the Blu-Ray).
It looks to me like the 2009 version has slightly more information on the bottom and on one or both of the sides, but slightly less information at the top, than the 1999 version has. So, this isn’t quite the improvement in all directions that the Sleeping Beauty (1959) Blu-Ray was, but it is an improvement nonetheless.
The colours, meanwhile, look a heck of a lot better; I mean, the 2009 version of the third picture in particular shows a heck of a lot more background detail than the 1999 version does.
The “70th Anniversary Edition” comes out March 10.
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