In Search of "Little Kimba"

Kimba the White Lion, for those unaware, was an anime first aired in 1965 in Japan, and the first produced in color. The series, for the most part, is available on DVD quite easily, as The Right Stuf released a DVD box set of the 1966 Titan Productions dub. However, what some people might not be aware of is that the version of episode 1, "Go, White Lion", included in this set is not the original version! An alternate version with the same cast was recorded in 1965 and aired on a few stations. This version of the episode went by "Little Kimba", and had a more faithful script, featured a strange alternate theme song based on the Japanese ending theme. and (though this is just hearsay) placed the flashbacks in it in their original places relative to the Japanese version. At one point, you could buy a fan-made restoration of a off-air recording of this version from the following page:

whitelionshop.kimba.biz/KimbaRestored.htm

But not only has the site not been updated since 2012, according to a page on the kimba.biz domain that hosts it, the reason is that the site's owner had a fatal heart attack. So while the link to buy still works, it's highly unlikely you'll get anything. That leaves this YouTube clip as the sole video evidence that is currently known to exist. For some more information from the aforementioned dead man, here's a page from his site (archived).


If someone could hunt down the DVD for me, I'd be ever so grateful, because this is some history that shouldn't be lost.