The Land Before Time: Lost Deleted Scenes

i understand why they cut some of this stuff for a g rating, but they should've just gone for the pg so the movie quality would be better.

EUREKA! I HAVE FINALLY RECEIVED A RESPONSE! Oh crap, sorry for yelling, but I was starting to think nobody cared about the search lol. Thank you for the response. Back o topic though, what you said is probably true. The same happened with rock-a-doodle, in which one of the animators (Jean morel) had uploaded the skunk pie scene (I’m kinda tempted to start a separate thread for that, in case he might have a test screener cut of the film).

But for these scenes, I feel like if someone had them, they would have turned up by now. We might be able to convince one of the crew members to go look for it, but from there, we can only hope.

I feel like some film record label like Kino Lorber, Criterion Collection, or Shout Factory could be licensed the rights to dig into that archive and find something.

It helps that some of the scenes were cut a mere 2 weeks before the film was supposed to release. I seriously doubt they don’t have at least a VHS workprint of those cuts of the film. I think the majority of the cuts post-April 1987 still exist in some form. 

There’s also the fact that the executive producers on the film, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are film preservationists. Any film he has directed or produced, Spielberg made sure to preserve scenes that were cut. That’s why the jurassic park deleted scenes still exist, despite never being released. George Lucas also preserved most of the deleted scenes from the early Star Wars movies. 

So Mr. Coat asks: “So why would both filmmakers approve of the removed scenes being destroyed?! I feel like there’s a longer story here”. 

Honestly, I’ve always been interested in deleted scenes from 80’s animated movies, especially don bluth films. They are so damn underrated. 

Anyways, thank you for your help. 

Also, if you need to know more about this piece in particular, it does have an article on the lost media wiki, so feel free to check it out. Don’t look at the archive one though, it’s not as accurate. 

unless they were told to destroy it and someone took it home