The latest from Animation Obsessive, “The ‘Toy Story’ You Remember,” seems potentially abstract and technical: it’s about how in the early days of digital animation, films still had to be transferred onto 35mm prints to be distributed to theaters, which perversely means that the currently available digital prints of these movies (Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, The Lion King, Aladdin) are showing different colors than the original release. But the side-by-side comparisons are truly shocking.
(That’s the 35mm Aladdin print on top and the current streaming version below.)
As a child of the ’90s, these films are canon. It’s crazy to realize how much they’ve changed.
