From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: BB Work-in-progress
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:03:15 GMT

bruce@fisher.hs.washington.edu  writes:
> In article <1992Oct24.003245.19181@u.washington.edu>, mousktr@carson.u.washington.edu (Denise "Apple Lady" Lockner) writes...
> >In article <BwKz60.ICF@nic.umass.edu> ltw@titan.ucc.umass.edu (LEE T WARNER) writes:
> >>Could any body tell me if the ball room scene is complete in the 
> >>work-in-progress version of Beatuy and the Beast?
> >One ququestion: the WIP tape was given to me as a gift from a friend
> >of mine at the Studiosd I was told that it wouldn't be available
> >to the general public.  Where are all you buying the WIP from??
> 
> The WIP should be (will be?) available in two slightly different forms?
> The Collectors edition of Beauty and the Beast on Tape (VHS only?)
> is listed as having the WIP as well as the Making of BatB (I assume
> this is the one that David Ogden Stiers hosted that was shown on the
> Disney Channel). The Laserdisc WIP doesn't seem to list Making of BatB
> as part of it, and I thought other supplementary were listed as well
> for the Laserdisc.  I suppose once it hits the stores we will know for
> sure.  The note that Disney/Image put about about the Laserdisc WIP is
> pretty terse.

From what the manager told me at the local Spectrum Audio/Video store, the 
laserdisc will be the complete BatB.  However, since Disney is just now 
releasing BatB internationally, they did not want a perfect laserdisc edition
that video pirates could copy.  There is currently no way to copyprotect a 
laserdisc (so I've been told).  Sure, the pirates could over-ride the videotape
protection, but that requires a bit of work (so I've been told).  
	The laserdisc, which I have ordered for $45, will contain a mixture of
scenes.  Some will be finished, others will be pencil sketches, etc.  I do not
know if the Disney special will be included.  Again, this is what I have been 
told.  Once I buy the disc, I will watch it, and then lock it away for fifty 
years, at which time I will sell it, since videotape will die out (yeah, right,
digital videotape.  Look at digital audio tape.  Look at WORM drives.  Imagine
a WORM laserdisc.), and millions of videodiscophiles will want a copy.
	I am not going to buy the limited edition for at least a year because
I want to see if a limited edition laserdisc will be released.  I wonder what
people will do with the extra CD they will acquire with the limited edition?  
I would assume that most fans bought the soundtrack right after (or before) 
they saw the movie.
	I heard that one song by Ashman/Mencken was cut from the movie.  Is it
on the WIP videotape?  

	Personally, I consider the WIP laserdisc the limited edition, since 
most people would probably buy the videotape to see the "complete" film.

	And remember, CAV is the one where EACH FRAME is stored, allowing all 
sorts of neat possibilities.  (Need a Disney picture on your start-up screen?
Get a digital copy from your laserdisc!  I don't know if this would work, but
then, all one has to do is mention something interesting to a computer wizard
and he/she will find a way.)

	Torsten at Omaha	(I live less than a mile from a Disney store!)
 
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