Re: The Snowman - Special Edition (Region 2)

On Tue, Dec 2, 2003, 11:07pm (EST+5), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil)
wrote:
>I see that there is a Special Edition of Raymond
>Briggs' The Snowman out on Region 2 DVD. 

Hmmm, haven't heard about that.  Must be a UK release too I bet.

>Apparently this has been 'forced' into a 16:9
>aspect ration by cropping off the top and bottom of
>the picture! 

Most US films are done this way too, so I'm not too concerned (unless
there was an importance to having those sections intact on the film, I
assume they cropped it to make it anamorphically widescreen for most
digital TV sets).

>Can anyone confirm that this travesty is true? 

Well I can't (being an American, but watched The Snowman from a 16mm
print once in the 3rd grade).

>If so then one question ............. why??? <shakes
>head sadly> 

I wish I could help.

>Is it also true that the Raymond Briggs introduction
>has been replaced by the David Bowie intro? 
>Phil

I think I once saw the David Bowie intro as well, but preferred the
original (I think the current US VHS release keeps this in).

>From the Master of Car-too-nal Knowledge...
Christopher M. Sobieniak

--"Fightin' the Frizzies since 1978"--