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Rated: G; DVD Release Date: Feb 28, 2006; Genre: Animation; With: Peggy Lee
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By Chris Willman
Chris Willman
Chris Willman
Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly

Lady and the Tramp was the first animated feature filmed in CinemaScope, so this deluxe package gives dads the extra excuse they've needed to buy that wide-screen TV. (''But, honey, it's for the kids. '') You'll get substantial letterboxing even on that plasma tube, since the pic is rendered in 'Scope's original, super wide 2.55:1 aspect ratio for the first time since Elvis could go to the movies unaccosted. ''It's almost like an animated Norman Rockwell painting,'' says contemporary animator Andreas Deja — yet it's a modernist Rockwell, using expansive technology to fetishize Victorian small-town America. That's fitting: In Disney's world, it's always a short jog between Main Street and Tomorrowland. EXTRAS A second disc details why the film took almost two decades to develop: The original concept was all Lady, no Tramp. Making it a romance led not just to a fable about domesticating alpha males, but to Disney's first implied sex scene. ''After Tramp shows Lady the town,'' says Deja, ''they settle in for the night, and the camera dissolves.... It's a little risqué.'' That's why the lady is a tramp.

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Posted Feb 24, 2006
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