Disney on Blu-Ray

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Disney Classics Due On Blu-ray

Disney will release five more of its classic animated titles on Blu-ray as part of its Platinum Collection, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Each of the titles will be available for a limited time in new multi-disc sets featuring hours of bonus materials and rare behind-the-scenes footage.

The new batch includes Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the first of Disney's acclaimed hand-drawn animated features. Also due for release for the first time in high-def are Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Fantasia 2000 (1999).

The company previously announced that Sleeping Beauty would be the first release of the Platinum Collection line on Blu-ray. It comes out Oct. 7.

Disney is also launching the BD-Live network, which offers such Web-enabled features as chat rooms and video messaging in the U.S. in conjunction with Sleeping Beauty. The network will go live worldwide in fall 2009 with Snow White.

The first of the five new Blu-ray releases, Pinocchio, will arrive in the spring. Snow White is next, followed in 2010 by Fantasia and Fantasia 2000. Finally, Beauty and the Beast will be available as a Blu-ray Disc Platinum Collection release in the fall of 2010.

In conjunction with these releases, Disney will issue Destino, an unfinished animated feature film created by Walt Disney and famed surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Begun in 1946, the rare film was rediscovered in 2003 and completed by Walt Disney's nephew, Roy E. Disney.