4/9/2023 0 Comments The thief and the cobblerIt has never been seen the way it was intended to be seen. It was eventually bought by Disney, recut and destroyed. After over two decades of work, the film was taken away from Williams when he couldn’t meet his deadline. The film was the inspiration for Disney‘s film Aladdin, which proved to be its undoing. Nearly 30 years in the making, a labor of love by a team of animation greats, this was to be the masterpiece of Williams’ career, perhaps the most ambitious independent animated film ever conceived. nameless.įor the first time ever on video, enjoy the original version of this lost animation classic, written and directed by three-time Academy Award winning animator Richard Williams (animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit). In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. In the centre of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. Once upon a time there was a golden city. Story teaser: It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality. Williams's wide-screen animation is among the most glorious and lively ever created." - Caryn James, The New York Times, 1995 Unofficial fansite for the unofficial fancut The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut Mark 4 The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut Mark 4
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