Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:36 pm
It's not the archival end of the company that's responsible for it, it's the home video department that is continuously scrubbing these films clean to fit aesthetically in with today's flat, colorful computer animation.
Technicolor's prints did vary from printing to printing, but on print runs that I've seen multiple prints compared, I was surprised at how close they all were—the worst was maybe a three point difference in one way or another. But it's not the general timing on these prints that's missing, it's the specific lights that were used for effects, just like old TV masters used to botch day-for-night shots in order for them to be more clear. And all the texture and warts that came with the original cel animation process are frequently being scrubbed out, not just by Disney.
J. Theakston
"You get more out of life when you go out to a movie!"