<P> Originally, Lady and the Tramp was planned to be filmed in a regular full frame aspect ratio . However, due to the growing interest of widescreen film among movie - goers, Disney decided to animate the film in CinemaScope making Lady and the Tramp the first animated feature filmed in the process . This new innovation presented additional problems for the animators: the expansion of space created more realism but gave fewer closeups . It also made it difficult for a single character to dominate the screen so that groups had to be spread out to keep the screen from appearing sparse . Longer takes become necessary since constant jump - cutting would seem too busy or annoying . Layout artists essentially had to reinvent their technique . Animators had to remember that they had to move their characters across a background instead of the background passing behind them . Yet the animators overcame these obstacles during the action scenes, such as Tramp killing the rat . </P> <P> More problems arose as the premiere date got closer since not all theaters had the capability to show CinemaScope at the time . Upon learning this, Walt issued two versions of the film: one in widescreen, and another in the Academy ratio . This involved gathering the layout artists to restructure key scenes when characters were on the edges of the screen . </P> <P> Lady and the Tramp was originally released to theaters on June 22, 1955 . At the time, the film took in a higher figure than any other Disney animated feature since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, earning an estimated $7.5 million in rentals at the North American box office in 1955 . An episode of Disneyland called "A Story of Dogs" aired before the film's release . The film was also reissued to theaters in 1962, 1972, 1980, and 1986 . Lady and the Tramp also played a limited engagement in select Cinemark Theatres from February 16--18, 2013 . </P> <P> Lady and the Tramp was first released on North American VHS and Laserdisc in 1987 as part of the Walt Disney Classics video series and in the UK in 1990 . It was released on VHS in 1998 as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection video series . A Disney Limited Issue series DVD of the film was released on November 23, 1999 . </P>

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