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Post #225737

Author
DaveHolmes
Parent topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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Date created
11-Jul-2006, 5:41 PM
Found this biography of David Koenigsberg that provides some insight into the Disney restoration of "Thief and The Cobbler":

http://www.the-cosmic-forces.net/cast/koenigsberg_david.html

The improved quality of Thai Wang's work reached Hollywood and so, on a return trip from Taipei, David saw the next production to come in was, The Thief and the Cobbler (1995) also known as "The Princess and the Cobbler" and "Arabian Knight."

A long fabled, tortured production that had been started in the 60's had now been taken over by the Completion Bond Company (CBC) from the director, Richard Williams. David might have been the last person to watch the director's cut (of mostly pencil test footage) before it was re-edited by CBC. Years later, Roy E. Disney expressed a desire to release the director's cut and it was David who provided the bad news (and exactly how all art at Thai Wang was regularly destroyed).


So I guess the completed footage is a lost cause, unless Richard Williams has some spare reels laying around.