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#229579
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Doctor Who: The Ten Doctors (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229579/action/topic#229579
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http://orangecow.org/videos/10doctors1.divx

He’s back … each and every one of him.

Starring David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston, Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, and William Hartnell as The Doctor.

Someone is meddling with the fabric of space and time. The Doctor’s time stream has folded back on itself, and he is surprised to find himself face to face with his previous incarnations.

Rose has met a mysterious man claiming to be The Doctor, who takes her back to our dimension. Meanwhile, the Ninth Doctor must travel back in time to meet his first incarnation to find a solution to this problem. As our world faces total destruction, Captain Jack teams up with the second and third Doctors, and … well, it’s all just a big mess.

I did this for fun last night, and it actually didn’t take that long. I think I’ll keep adding to it over time.

Yes, for those playing along at home, the idea is to make a trailer in which all the various incarnations of Doctor Who (and companions) interact.

Doctors 4, 5 and 6 are severely underrepresented in this trailer, I know … technically they’re in there (voice or image). I’ll get round to them. The thing is, I don’t really own any classic Doctor Who on DVD; I have to rent it. I had rented the Paul McGann movie, and I decided to give it a try, but I only had Eccleston and McGann in DVD quality … anything else I had to get from rather poor quality AVIs. (Even David Tennant, who I don’t have on DVD yet - if anyone can oblige there let me know).

So this is just one night’s work. I’ll rent a few stories from the classic Doctors and add more shots.

I haven’t even used anything from The Five Doctors yet.

If you’d like to play along at home (because this is a lot of fun to do, creating these shots), I’m doing them in PAL, 740x576 anamorphic widescreen, using the PhotoJPEG codec (I’m using Final Cut Pro, myself). Feel free to create your own shots and submit them for this project.

As you can tell from this trailer, the easiest shots to join together are those where The Doctor is on a solid background, usually black. If you can composite him out with Chromakey, you’ve got a shot.

I’m very grateful to Babel Fish’s colorized versions of scenes from the Hartnell and Troughton years. I’m surprised I haven’t had to use anything in black and white yet.

Anyway, enjoy the trailer.

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#229343
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229343/action/topic#229343
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+ The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut
The definitive unofficial presentation of this classic film. Painstakingly restored.
Features:
- Recobbled Cut Trailer
- Arabian Knight Trailer
- Allied Filmmakers Trailer - New for Mark II!
- Nine Image Galleries - 3 New for Mark II!
"Deleted Characters" section featuring:
- Enchanted Prince Bubba: Witch sequence
- Princess Meemee - Bath sequence
- Mullah Nasruddin: Bread sequence - new for Mark II!
- Animated menus featuring pencil tests from the original film
- About the Film
- Restoration commentary by Garrett Gilchrist and Patrick McCart


More discs:
RICHARD WILLIAMS COLLECTION:
+ The Thief and the Cobbler workprint and DVD-ROM extras
+ The Thief Who Never Gave Up Documentary/Charge of the Light Brigade/Return of the Pink Panther
+ Making of Nasrudin - A Creative Man (1966), Clapperboard 1&2 (1972), Liquidator titles, Panther ads
+ NEW! Richard Williams Studio Animated Commercials (50 min), Animating Art, Nasruddin "Bread Scene" clip, Roger Rabbit Trailer, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum end titles, Thief Warner Bros. Licensing Trailer, Allied Filmmakers Trailer, Arabian Knight Trailer
+ Rare Thief and the Cobbler pencil-camera tests/The Pink Panther Strikes Again titles/I Drew Roger Rabbit (better version)/A Christmas Carol/Arabian Knight Trailer
+ Ziggy's Gift/Ziggy Cartoons/Fred Calvert's Princess and the Cobbler: Work In Progress Version
+ Raggedy Ann & Andy/A Christmas Carol (Raggedy Ann is also available in "fake widescreen" 24p remastered)
+ Arabian Knight (Miramax Cut) Japanese widescreen DVD (Arabian Knight is also available in pan & scan)
+ The Princess and the Cobbler (Calvert Cut) Australian Pan & Scan DVD (PAL)
+ The Princess and the Cobbler (Calvert Cut) Timecoded Widescreen from rare VHS (good quality, timecoded with trailer)
+ NEW! Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toontown/Roger Rabbit TV spots (Diet Coke, McDonald's)
+ NEW! Roger Rabbit Reviews (Siskel & Ebert etc., with CBS "Pig Head" version)
+ The Thief Scrapbook - Huge collection of articles, artwork and more on a data DVD. Being added to all the time.
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#229217
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229217/action/topic#229217
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Yeah. I have a copy of that poster with the Princess and the Cobbler logo on it (poorly drawn) ... but that looks like the real Thief and the Cobbler logo, hopefully not poorly drawn. (It kind of looks like it IS poorly drawn, but who knows.) It would be nice to have a good quality scan of that.

If anyone can buy that for me and scan it, I can pay you back in a stack of DVDs, the complete collection or whatever.
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#229148
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229148/action/topic#229148
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It's not clear exactly what artwork Miramax bought, but clearly it was a significant amount of material. Roughly all of the korean stuff was junked, but hey.

According to rumor from informed sources, Dick himself also kept some 35mm film and other secret things.

I do not feel that it is necessary for people to have saved the artwork in order to restore this film. It would be helpful if ever someone tries to finish the unfinished animation, but as long as you have the various cuts of the film on either film or video in decent quality, all is okay. And we do have that, so all is okay.

Any artwork that's been saved is simply icing on the cake.



And yeah, this is great news. More news as it develops.



You can get your Thief cafepress stuff at cafepress.com/cobbler, a little site I made for Eddie Bowers' page. If you have any special requests, let me know.
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#229124
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229124/action/topic#229124
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John Loter chimes in with the latest on Don Hahn's planned Thief restoration ... news from Comic Con ....

Don Hahn and daughter stopped by our
booth- met them briefly last year, but this time I talked to him a bit
more and said "Do you mind if I ask you about a rumor- The Thief and
The Cobbler restoration?"

I can't remember exactly what he said but it sounded like a "someday"
kind of project. He did tell me [and was clearly excited about it] that
they got ALL the artwork from Miramax and it is sitting "along with
Snow White and Pinnocchio" [in Disney's Animation Research Library,
where all art is stored]. "Beautiful Errol LeCain backgrounds", etc.

SO.... I asked him if he was aware of you and your efforts on a fan
restoration and he was NOT. I said you did an amazing job and that he
needs to see it. He joked that maybe he should hire you and I said YES!
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#228939
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228939/action/topic#228939
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That's a generous offer Patrick ... but if anyone's going to do a full, alternate edit of this film at this point, somehow I think it should be me or an official release or nothing. At this point, I'm saying nothing. =\

Taolar - My best sources believe that both Disney and Richard saved a good deal of material from this film. No one knows for sure, though.


Good news - I've just completed the latest disc in the Richard Williams Collection.

Entitled "Animated Ads," it's jam-packed with good things.

I've actually authored it to replace the old "Animating Art" disc, because there was some overlap of content (you'll see why I did this when you see the tracklisting). If you have the old Animating Art disc, keep it - the old one has Oscar Grillo's Seaside Woman and another print of I Drew Roger Rabbit on it; the new one will not.


Here's the contents.


Richard Williams Studio Animated Commercials - 29 min. You've seen this reel on Youtube - now, a half hour of animated ads have been cleaned up, color corrected, and converted to NTSC 24p. The entire presentation is progressive scan without interlacing and looks great. This also includes the Pink Panther ads courtesy of Roy and Holger Leihe, and the Roger Rabbit Diet Coke commercial courtesy of Dave West.

More Animated Commercials by Richard and Others - 19.5 min. Bringing our total commercial count to 50 minutes or so, this is the reel courtesy of Chris Sobieniak which you may have seen on the older Animating Art disc, or on GBS.TV. I have removed some ads which appeared in the other reel.

Animating Art - 38 minutes - Documentary about Art Babbit's work and career, as he works at Richard Williams studio educating the animators there. Courtesy of Eddie Bowers, the same (mediocre quality) print seen on the old Animating Art disc.

Nasruddin "Bread Scene" clip from One Pair of Eyes: Dreamwalkers - 5 minutes. Courtesy of Tahir Shah. You'll see it on new versions of The Thief Recobbled, but you can get it here too .... a remarkable rare clip from the film that became The Thief, circa 1966-1968. Kenneth Williams plays characters including the character that became Zigzag.

Roger Rabbit Trailer - 3 minutes in DVD quality. Courtesy of Patrick McCart.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum end titles - 2.5 minutes in DVD quality.

Warner Bros. Thief and the Cobbler Licensing Trailer - 6.5 minutes, courtesy of Roy Naisbitt. Now converted to widescreen progressive scan NTSC 24p. Contains several shots not in the final film.

The Thief and the Cobbler Calvert Cut: Allied Filmmakers Trailer - 2 minutes. Courtesy of J.P. Cummings, this rare trailer reflects the "Princess" version of the film.

Arabian Knight Trailer - 2 minutes. Courtesy of baby hum, this DVD quality trailer reflects the Arabian Knight version of the film.
Post
#228833
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228833/action/topic#228833
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The Arabian Knight trailer, Allied Trailer, commentary and "about the film" are left off of the version I prepared for certain animators (and for Dick) ... no need for 'em.

We can always hope that a better workprint turns up. The one we have is pretty good for storyboards, but not so much for pencil tests and things.

I intend to try to send my cut to Dick anyway ... see what he thinks. If I get an opinion from the master himself, maybe I can then make a version more suited to his specifications. =)


At the moment, I'm still working quite hard on a brand-new Richard Williams Collection DVD .... This will contain NTSC 24p versions of many, many Williams studio commercials, all of which have been converted from PAL, cleaned up, color corrected and generally prettified for DVD ... as well as the Warners trailer and whatever else fits on the disc.
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#228763
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228763/action/topic#228763
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>> If true, this would mean that Dick might have been making so little progress on the film, he was digging into the pencil tests from almost two decades ago in order to boost the weekly footage count.

Or he was having the scene redrawn, as many scenes were (although since the scene was unused this is less likely). Or Maccurdy misinterpeted the question as referring to another, similar shot she'd seen.



Well, I'm back from Comic Con. Had a great time as always. Lost a lot of money. Not sure how I'm going to make rent this week, but boy was it worth it. I'll probably be posting a long ramble at FFrevolution.com.

I actually wore my black Cafepress.com/cobbler Tack tshirt on friday. One person recognized me, and got a free copy of Thief Mark II for his troubles. On saturday, Josh Way recognized me WITHOUT the t-shirt. I was standing in line on my knees (I was tired), and he recognized me ... and got a Thief Mark II for his troubles. =)

I spoke to animation scholar Jerry Beck and gave him a bunch of copies, because I know they'll be going to good homes. Very grateful to Amid and Jerry for putting that interview up at Cartoon Brew. Jerry's "Worst Cartoons Ever" panel is hilarious.

While talking to Jerry I got to meet Bill Plympton .... he'd also heard of my project .... very cool. He was very nice and I also met someone who was with him - I didn't quite catch her name but I believe it was Margaret and that she's an animator. Sorry for the fuzzy facts here.

At the Comic Con film festival I met Raul Garcia (who worked on Roger Rabbit) and saw his terrific short film The Telltale Heart .... animated in stark blacks and whites and narrated by Bela Lugosi .... predating Sin City and the French film Renaissance, but now competing with them.


And .... wonderfully ...


I got to meet and briefly talk to Eric Goldberg .... an honor, I'm a huge fan ... he might be the best animator working today, certainly among the top few.

He'd seen my Thief project, which is nice, and was glad that I was restoring this material. I plan to send him a lot of DVDs, though I'm sure he's collected a lot of this material himself already.

I met a bunch of other people, so many I wound up running out of copies of The Thief to give out ... at that particular moment I was talking to Hans Perk from AFilm animation in Denmark (http://www.afilm.com), Larry Loc from ASIFA, and a fellow who I think was Eric Goldberg's son ...? I think his last name was "Goldberg." My memory fails me for the moment.

He'd seen the cut, and enjoyed it, but felt strongly that I should have done Dick's cut more closely, and not included any Calvert animation. As he said: "The [Williams] storyboards are better than the [Calvert] animation."

Which is true.

He felt I should redo the cut, replacing the Calvert animation with the Williams storyboards, feeling that if Dick saw the film this way "it would kill him."

Eric agreed that the storyboards should have been/should be reinstated.


This had also been Holger Leihe's opinion, and, I'm sure, the opinion of other animators who've seen this cut.


My response was an ashamed "I know, I know ..." which became an "I know, I know, but ..."


I didn't follow Dick's cut of the film exactly for Recobbled. I could have - I could have edited this film a myriad of different ways. But due to the insane complexity of this edit, I decided to pick just one way of editing the film, and stick to it, otherwise I would be working on it for a long, long time.

My decision was to include Calvert animation, new music, scenes that Dick had cut out, and other material that deviated from the workprint.

Why? Well, as a purist I want to see Dick's version of The Thief and the Cobbler. As an editor, I know Dick's version was never completed, and I want to entertain the audience as much as possible. And sadly, the quality of the workprint (the pencil tests in particular) still isn't all that good.

I know that an audience would rather watch finished animation than pencil tests and storyboards, and I made the decision to use Calvert footage to help tell the story and make the film feel more complete. Sadly, it's not exactly Dick's cut anymore, but I feel it's easier for a viewer to turn their brain off and watch it .... not have to think as much. I'm not saying it's BETTER this way, because it isn't, it's simply easier to watch for the general public.


But yeah, it's a tradeoff, and for Dick's sake, I would ideally want to present him with a version that matched his cut perfectly. I do worry that my cut would "kill him."

The only reason I haven't done an alternate cut is that it would be a huge amount of work. And also because I feel I made the right decision for this version of the film.

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#227264
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227264/action/topic#227264
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Late. Can't sleep.

Looking more closely at the Warners trailer. There's about 20 short shots in there which are otherwise only in the workprint, grumble grumble. Most of it is the Thief in the war machine. Still, there's nothing really significant enough to make me want to overhaul everything.


The Thief bouncing off awnings is in the Miramax cut so I don't need that, BUT looking closely at it, there's half an extra shot at the beginning! The final cut cuts to Tack - here we stay with The Thief for a great first shot of him falling. I prefer this cut of the scene.
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#227240
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227240/action/topic#227240
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If I seem like I'm in a bad mood, it's because of some people at a message board elsewhere, but never mind that.

As I've said 3 times now, the footage found in the Warners trailer is not a significant (or high quality) enough find for me to do a huge overhaul of the cut so soon after completing Mark II.

Even if it were, a 2 second shot of King Nod I already have in better quality elsewhere would not be the "big find" of the trailer. I am not stupid enough to have left timecode on any shot in the Recobbled Cut, anywhere.

As a test of the Warner trailer's quality, I am considering putting in their version of the Thief bouncing off awnings, to see how significant the quality change is. But for god's sake, I don't want to be redoing this forever.


I'm leaving for San Diego and Comic Con tomorrow, early. I have NOT mailed out ANY copies of The Thief Mark II. I'm sorry. I had 30 or 40 copies burned and ready to go, a huge stack, but then the new Nasrudin footage came in and grumble grumble grumble. The timing of this just drives me nuts.

I still intend to mail a bunch of Mark IIs out without the new Nasrudin scene. Sorry.

I will be taking a stack of Mark II Thief discs to Comic Con (and a couple Mark Is that never got mailed) and probably giving them away to people. If I can get rid of enough, when I get back next week I'll eventually run out and start sending out the versions with the Nasrudin scene included. But I burned a LOT of copies without it, so.

I've been rendering material for a new NTSC DVD of the animated commercials and other things for the past 3 days. It's been long and drawn out, and I'm glad to have a break from it.

If you're going to Comic Con, I look like this. Maybe you'll see me there.

http://www.orangecow.org/1ocp/garrettheadshotweb.jpg

I'll be in a better mood when I get back. Til then, those waiting for your discs, keep waiting - you'll be better off for it if I DON'T send the discs now, trust me.
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#227019
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227019/action/topic#227019
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I like the Limara one too .... not the best animation, but sexy with nice music .... and the bizarre 2001/Close Encounters Vodka ad.

A hell of a lot of Pink Panther ads were on the Making of Nasruddin DVD, did you not see that?


I am attempting to convert the entire reel of ads to cleaned up NTSC 24p, plus the Warners trailer, the Pink Panther ads, etc.

I am also trying to convert the Roger Rabbit Diet Coke ad into a cleaned up 24p version. Yep.


http://orangecow.org/thief/rogercoke.mp4

Roger Rabbit thinks you should drink Diet Coke.
An unusual commercial because it was clearly animated by Richard Williams Studio, possibly by Richard Williams himself ... who animated the actual feature film, so Diet Coke spared no expense. Bob Hoskins appears in new footage as Eddie Valiant, Charles Fleischer voices Roger, and that is possibly Amy Irving as Jessica Rabbit.
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#227008
Topic
Bonzo Dog Band: Talking Pictures (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227008/action/topic#227008
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm8F9Q2zU2w

The complete, uncut performance of the Bonzo Dog Band performing Equestrian Statue and Little Sir Echo on the German TV show Beat Club. On the original DVD Talking Pictures, these were presented as two separate performances, but here you see them as one, with Roger's radio, Neil as the Mona Lisa and some extra dialogue in the middle from Vivian.


With Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes, Roger Ruskin-Spear, Legs Larry Smith, Rodney Slater and Dave Clague
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#226949
Topic
Bonzo Dog Band: Talking Pictures (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226949/action/topic#226949
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NEW VIDEO.


As rare as rare gets folks ... Classic concert film of the Bonzo Dog Band in Germany. Vivian Stanshall, Vivian performs "Big Shot," then there's "You Done My Brain In," and Neil performing "Hello Mabel," "I'm the Urban Spaceman" and "Quiet Talks and Summer Walks," Roger's robots perform "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," Vivian performs "Canyons of Your Mind," and Roger performs the "Trouser Press."

Band lineup is the late-period version: Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes, Roger Ruskin-Spear, Legs Larry Smith, Rodney Slater and Dennis Cowan.

Apologies for the three bars across the screen - timecode and onscreen logos had to be removed.


Vivian performs "Big Shot," then there's "You Done My Brain In," and Neil performing "Hello Mabel."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2003zBR7-BI


Neil performs "I'm the Urban Spaceman" and "Quiet Talks and Summer Walks," Roger's robots perform "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHhDpIds78

Vivian performs "Canyons of Your Mind," and Roger performs the "Trouser Press."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fnrGIFMpcY


An interview with Neil Innes -- Neil, ever the straight man, tries to talk about the Bonzos in serious terms. An apparently drunk Vivian Stanshall and Roger Ruskin-Spear show up at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOBSkZDQQ4o





I have had this great and incredibly rare performance on VHS for quite a long time .... 3 or 4 years I think. I was asked at the time not to share it with anyone.

So I didn't. I did however post the audio, so that's been bootlegged.

Now, the situation has changed, and I've been allowed to share it in this form.

Enjoy.


As stated above I am working on ANOTHER epic Bonzo DVD now .... an expanded and improved version of the original now spread out over 2 or 3 discs, with a lot of rare rare stuff.

So we'll see how that goes. I am a bit busy with The Thief and the Cobbler and my own films, but it's honestly being worked on.
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#226935
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226935/action/topic#226935
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Richard Williams animated ads pt. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbOZBN64VNc

pt. 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB9m4SY0_fE


pt. 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvFAonfw_IA



Warner Bros. Licensing Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aO4Oy6AoSs



Here's a guy who isn't too happy with the old Roger Rabbit NES game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx7fgev3xQ0

I played the Roger Rabbit game cos I liked Roger ... but it was weird and complicated and hard. Pretty open-ended, which is interesting. I think it WOULD have been good years later with better technology to do the sort of free-wheeling detective story they were aiming for.