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ocpmovie
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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3-Apr-2006, 4:20 AM
Also spotted these early films ...

A Lecture on Man 62, Circus Drawing(s), Ivor Pittfalks


Were these finished? I think I've read something about "Circus Drawing" being a working title for a test animation that was unfinished. "A Lecture on Man" was probably finished.

Okay, it says Ivor Pittfalks was not completed, and "Circus Drawings" was ...

Also mentioning other titles ....

The Story of the Motorcar Engine
A Lecture on Man
Circus Drawings
Pubs and Beaches
The Liquidator (Cardiff) (animated sequences)
I Vor Pittfalks (not completed)
The Sailor and the Devil
Don't Drink the Water (Morris) (animated sequences)

Animator. Nationality: Canadian. Born: Montreal, 19 March 1933; emigrated to the United Kingdom, 1955. Career: Worked for Disney and United Productions of America (UPA) in early 1950s; 1955—moved to England: first animated film, The Little Island, 1958; his own studio produced animated films, commercials, and special effects and titles for live-action films; 1992—forced to close studio. Awards: Academy Award, for A Christmas Carol, 1971; Special Achievement Award and Visual Effects Academy Award, and two British Academy Awards, for Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, 1988.


Richard Williams
Films as Animator:
1958
The Little Island; The Story of the Motorcar Engine

1961
A Lecture on Man

1962
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me

1964
Circus Drawings

1965
Diary of a Madman (not completed); The Dermis Probe; What's New Pussycat? (Donner) (animated sequences)

1966
Pubs and Beaches; The Liquidator (Cardiff) (animated sequences); The Spy with a Cold Nose (Petrie) (animated sequences); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Lester) (animated sequences)

1967
Casino Royale (Huston and others) (animated sequences); I Vor Pittfalks (not completed); The Sailor and the Devil

1968
Prudence and the Pill (Cook) (animated sequences); The Charge of the Light Brigade (Richardson) (animated sequences)

1969
Don't Drink the Water (Morris) (animated sequences)

1971
A Christmas Carol

1977
Raggedy Ann and Andy

1982
Ziggy's Gift

1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis) (+ ro as voice of Droopy)

1995
Arabian Knight (The Thief and the Cobbler) (+ sc)

Publications

By WILLIAMS: articles—
"Animation and The Little Island," in Sight and Sound (London), Autumn 1958.

Contrast, Spring 1963.

Cinéma (Paris), January 1970.

Screen International (London), 18 June 1977.

Funnyworld, Fall 1978.

Funnyworld, Summer 1979.

Films and Filming (London), April 1982.

Screen International (London), 11–18 December 1982.

Television Weekly, 25 May 1984.

Starburst (London), September 1985.

Films and Filming (London), August 1988.

The Listener (London), 20 October 1988.


On WILLIAMS: articles—
Sight and Sound (London), Spring 1963.

Films and Filming (London), October 1963.

Roudévitch, Michel, in Cinéma (Paris), no. 98, 1965.

Cinema TV Today (London), 9 December 1972.

Filmmakers Newsletter (Ward Hill, Massachusetts), May 1973.

Monthly Film Bulletin (London), October 1973, additions in February 1974.

Movie Maker (London), December 1975.

Stills (London), May/June 1983.

National Film Theatre Booklet (London), April 1985.

Film Comment (New York), July/August 1988.

Times (London), 1 September 1989.

Films in Review (New York), November-December 1995.

Duncan, Celia, in Screen International (London), 22 March 1996.

Animato! (Springfield), no. 35, Summer 1996.