Disc 2

Compared to disc 1, there were only a few minor corrections needed to disc 2.

The Night Before Christmas
The new version on the re-pressed discs now includes a short scene previously cut, showing a toy Amos and Andy taxicab pulling a trailer full of dolls who shout 'Mammy!'. The join in the audio as the new section starts is quite noticeable.
The addition of this scene has meant that the short has now been consigned to the Vault area of the disc.

More Kittens
An encoding fault on the original disc resulted in around a dozen frames with an MPEG macro-blocking fault at 2:08 in this film (below left). The problem has been corrected for the re-pressed version (below right).

The Moth And The Flame
Quite a nit-picky one, this. On the original pressings of disc 2, just as the film ends and the "The End" card comes up, for a brief moment the card is substantially reduced in size (as seen in the picture below left) before popping back to full-screen (below right). This has been corrected on the re-pressed discs.

The Goddess Of Spring
When these cartoons were made, they were shot on film at a rate of 24 frames per second (fps). NTSC video, however, runs at 30fps. (OK, technically 29.97fps, but let's not worry about those 0.03fps at the moment, this is complicated enough as it is.) So there needs to be a way to generate the extra frames needed when a film is transfered to video. Usually, if the authoring is done properly, film will be stored on a DVD at 24fps, with a flag inserted in the video stream to tell the DVD player to convert it to 30fps on playback.

Older film transfers, recorded on video tape, used a different method. They took advantange of the fact that video uses a system called 'interlacing', where each frame is stored as two half-frames, or fields. Each field contains either the odd-numbered or even-numbered lines in each frame. By scanning each frame of film, converting it to fields, and then mixing and duplicating the fields, it is possible to crudely generate 30 frames out of the original 24. However, this results in some video frames having mis-matched fields, and it you freeze-frame on one of these frames, you can see a blur of the two different fields.

With me so far? Good.

The transfer on the original pressing of Disc 2 was an old video-sourced copy, and so suffered from the blurry interlaced frames problem. The new transfer on the re-pressed disc should be 24fps with a flag... but it isn't! Not quite, anyway.

Here are seven consecutive frames from both versions (for timecode buffs, they start at 00:02:54:24 and run to 00:02:55:00). As you may be able to tell, the background painting is supposed to be alternating with each frame.

So, for some reason, parts of the new transfer are at 30fps with blurred frames, and other parts are at 24fps. It's a real strange one; not something that I can easily explain. (Intelligent answers on the back of an email, please!).

(They also still have useless incorrect subtitles for the 'Hi-De-Hades' song, but that's just my personal gripe.)