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#222961
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222961/action/topic#222961
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What you're actually looking for is the Buddha Ruby. If you watch the scene, Abu is looking at a similar golden idol with a ruby. Major, obvious ripoff scene.



Nigel Haslam writes:
I worked in the painting department for Richard Williams and witnessed
the
sad end of the original production, when Warners axed Dick from the
film
and took over completion through the then existing Completion Bond
Company.

I was told around that time, by various colleages, that once the
Completion
Bond people got their hands on the footage there were several different
options considered to finish it off (with a large focus being on how
quickly and cheaply it could be done).

One of the more interesting options, that unfortunately was never
followed
through (possibly because it wasn't the cheapest and possibly also
because
the head of CBC decided she had a better idea herself), was a very
interesting edit of the film made by Robert Zemekis, who was given all
the
existing footage and prompted to 'make a film out of that'.

Appparently Zemekis made a compelling story from the elements with very
little extra animation needed to support this new version of the story.

If this version exists somewhere it would be a great addition to the
legacy.
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#222703
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The Muppet Movie Extended Edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222703/action/topic#222703
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We might very well want some help actually. Ben won't be getting round to this for a while sadly, but when he does he'll be releasing a PAL pan & scan transfer.

It would be nice for someone to take an official NTSC anamorphic widescreen DVD of The Muppet Movie and add these extra scenes into it .... cropping these scenes to widescreen of course.

But this won't be happening for months.
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#222354
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222354/action/topic#222354
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I know. Ken's work for Chuck Jones was so marvelously subtle, and Richard really exploited that part of Ken's brain, though with a simpler art style.

I can draw like a madman but I don't think I could ever make things "move well" like that.

I've sent out about 37 packages the past few days. I'm trying to catch up on the orders I missed during that 3 week period.

With thanks to John Mathot I applied for a job at The Simpsons today. At both Rough Draft and Film Roman. Wish me luck. I also might be going in to help on Tom Green's internet talk show which seems like fun but doesn't pay. Bah. I am completely broke; I am leaving this place in less than a week, and I have almost no money, certainly nowhere near enough to get a new apartment. I have nowhere to go. I'm going to put my stuff into storage and look at being homeless for a while, or something. I'm not actually sure what I'm doing. I'll figure it out. A stray cat always lands on his feet.
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#222310
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The Muppet Movie Extended Edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222310/action/topic#222310
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Okay, well, along with Howard the Duck widescreen and some of the Thief and the Cobbler/Roger Rabbit stuff, this is ANOTHER thing Ben (Tequila Mockingbird) has but hasn’t transferred yet. He’s a busy guy, but he’ll transfer his PAL copy of this eventually.

I thought this deserved its own thread. I DO have a copy of this material that I got from Guillermo Gomez, but I just have the individual deleted bits, and they’re in pretty bad quality and probably missing stuff at the beginning/end of the clips. Presumably Ben will transfer this whole version of the movie in good quality. Or at least the deleted bits.

Here’s the deal: There is an extended version of The Muppet Movie. I think it was only released in England on VHS tape. It’s pretty rare. It has an extended version of Rowlf’s song, and most notably it has a funnier and I think far superior ending.

It’s a pan & scan transfer, but it’s pretty close to full frame and could be cropped to widescreen without losing much I think.

My copy of this material shows up at the end of a DVD with two episodes of The Jim Henson Hour (probably my favorite Henson series) on it.

I don’t have a copy of the normal Muppet Movie on hand to compare, but I’ll assume that the bits that Guillermo specifically copied for me are the deleted bits. So here’s what they seem to be.

  • More of Fozzie’s unsuccessful comedy onstage when he and Kermit meet.
  • Longer commercial for Doc Hopper’s Frog Legs and he and Kermit meet.
  • Fozzie hands Dr. Teeth the script and he reads it and recaps the entire movie at length. I presume this is in the movie but shorter?
  • Longer (I guess) chase scene as Doc Hopper follows the “rainbow colored Studebaker.”
  • Longer version of the Rowlf/Kermit duet, “I Hope That Something Better Comes Along”
  • Longer version of the giant Animal scaring Doc Hopper et al away.
  • At the end, before Kermit sings “Life’s like a movie …” there’s a long (I assume longer) sequence of explosions going off to blow the roof open.
  • Here’s the real gem of this version … the Muppets all talk over the credits, talking to each other in the theater. Fozzie and Miss Piggy want desperately to be told that they were good in the movie. Kermit is nice and tells everyone they were great. He tells Lew Zealand he can be in “the next one.” Janice and Floyd snuggle up - Janice runs from Animal - “Woman!” Rowlf tries to converse with Beaker. “Yeah, whatever.”

I’d like to check this against the real version to see if the ending there is actually the same without the audio of the Muppets talking. I know some of it is the same as the real version visually, so I’m curious if they just muted all the audio of what everyone was saying for the released version. If so, all you’d have to change there would be the audio.

Also, Dr. Teeth’s recap of the film uses footage from the rest of the film, so that could be cut in in good quality also.

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#222202
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222202/action/topic#222202
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Dear god, that's terrific.


Whose collection is that? Yours? Why don't you have a scanner? What an amazing collection.


The Thief's name is given as "Abdul Salaam." Interesting as in Aladdin he became "Abu."

Also amazing - Princess Meemee's name is given as "Gul-Bibi." I've heard a different name for her before, but not that. And her prince Bubba is called "Sweetmeat the Beast." There's a very evocative drawing by Dick under "signed". It should be in the Thief section but isn't.

Guys - check out the "Christmas Cards" and "Personalized Drawings" sections - they're mostly RW related.

Dick interviews Ken:
http://www.packthecat.com/PersistenceOfVision/Notes/KenHarrisInterview.html

A great site, a great tribute to someone who could make things "move well" better than pretty much anybody.
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#221786
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221786/action/topic#221786
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Blah. Somehow I knew that'd happen.


I spoke to *** yesterday (FINALLY, after two months), and he's verified that the VHS tape he was sent by Tahir Shah, the One Pair of Eyes: Dreamwalkers documentary, has completed footage from the Nasruddin film in it. An entire scene - the bread scene - the one described on your Recobbled DVD if you have it. It's completed and colored, but the copy is in black and white. The quality is excellent considering.

I expect to have it in my hands within a week.
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#221417
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221417/action/topic#221417
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A Disney release of this is still as unlikely as the Song of the South being released on DVD, or, to be more obvious about it, pigs flying.

We'll see, and believe then.


Glad you all like it!

I'll try to get it to Dick once I've done a bit more to it. If I can get him to watch it and reply, that will certainly tell us a few things ...


After, what, a month? Amid has finally posted the interview with me ... a very long interview indeed, the longest they've done.
http://cartoonbrew.com/

Metafilter thread:
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/52489
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#220079
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220079/action/topic#220079
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Thanks Andy.


>> Why did you use Sean Connery? What was the source for that? Just curious.

As Patrick says, he's listed in the cast list on the "Once ..." brochure. Tack's voice at the end is intended to be Sean Connery, but it isn't known for sure whether Connery had actually recorded his voice at that point, or if that was an impersonator. I believe it is Connery. It certainly was meant to be.

>> I think you commented on this somewhere, but it's interesting that Declan Mulholland and Clive Reveill (sp?) featured in this film, and their parts were also hacked up.

Clive Revill actually only features in the bad version - replacing Anthony Quayle. Very ironic. And Declan Mulholland is present in all versions. Dick had worked with him on Charge of the Light Brigade.

>> I can't believe how atrocious some of the songs (featured in the official trailer) were - thanks for removing them. "This is what happens when you don't go to school" - that is just dumb.

The entire Arabian Knight edit is shockingly bad. Batman & Robin bad. Worth watching once.
Post
#219831
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219831/action/topic#219831
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I'm capturing the material from the widescreen VHS tape now.

On this tape, the Thief has been taped over another movie, which is timecoded but not on the picture. At the end of the tape you see the end of the other movie, which has some adult material in it. An IMDB search shows that the film is called The Hour of the Pig (aka The Advocate) starring Colin Firth.



Here's something ultra rare for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVYQSI9Xhho

The Allied Filmmakers trailer for the film.

I'm not sure if this trailer was ever used or released. From the clips shown, it refers to the rare Australian version of the film, normally known as The Princess and the Cobbler. On the same VHS tape was a copy of this cut of the film, with the "Thief" title on it instead. Fred Calvert's version of the film, the "Princess" cut is definitely not what Richard Williams intended, but is much better than what Miramax released as Arabian Knight/The Thief and the Cobbler.

Interestingly, this trailer has a shot of King Nod peeking out of a pink tent which doesn't appear in the released versions of the film - but was in Richard Williams' workprint.
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#219378
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219378/action/topic#219378
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Spotted at Ain't it Cool News ...

THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER - tanned, rested, & ready
by Harry Weinstein June 6th, 2006
02:53:40 AM CST
Biggest animation news of late for me has to be the "RECOBBLED CUT" fan-edit-restoration of this that is drifting around. I have been waiting for this for a long long time. True, this isn't exactly the million-dollar Roy Disney-powered restoration I was hoping for, but it is better than any other option for viewing the film that there has ever been. It's all about the War Machine sequence. Oh my God. If you've seen only the Miramax or Aussie cuts of this, you're missing out. It's on YouTube, but that resolution simply doesn't do it justice - track down the DVD image on bittorrent or Usenet. Do what you must, but get RECOBBLED CUT. This has been a motherfucking public service announcement.





Meanwhile, the collection of DVDs continues to grow.


Dave West has sent in another collection of Roger Rabbit ephemera.

DVD - Roger Rabbit Reviews - Watch critics like Siskel & Ebert gush over what was seen as a major milestone in film. Many unconditionally positive reviews. Richard Williams talks to MTV briefly. Michael Eisner introduces a mediocre copy of the CBS TV version of the film - the infamous "pig head" version.


And of course there's this:

DVD - Thief and the Cobbler - Calvert Cut - timecoded widescreen VHS dub .... with rare trailer! Copy of this very rare unreleased widescreen VHS version of Fred Calvert's "Princess" version of the film. 1st generation, beautiful, with timecode covering part of the picture sadly.



After two months I'm STILL waiting on certain parties in England to send me their DVD transfers of these, but I expect them pretty soon hopefully ....

+ One Pair of Eyes: Dreamwalkers - Idries Shah documentary that may include footage from the Nasruddin film and a discussion of it with Richard.
+ Richard Williams Commercials: The Best Ones/Warner Bros. Thief Licensing Trailer
+ Animating Art/I Drew Roger Rabbit/Secrets of Toontown better copies

So we'll see on that. Hint hint to those reading.






Spotted at Flixens:
http://www.flixens.com/the_thief_and_the_cobbler
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#217765
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217765/action/topic#217765
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Yep, I keep reediting it, and they keep changing it back to be wrong.

Thanks for spotting the witch music!

I haven't sent a copy to Richard yet.


By the way ...

Very sorry to those waiting for the DVD. I was forced to move house, and then move back, this past week. I was without internet for an entire week. I am still without internet. To add to the insanity, my computer broke down completely - it won't turn on - I've sent it in for repairs. But my list of orders is on that computer. Supposed to be fixed on monday. (On an unrelated note, the people I live with decided to start stealing from me. I'm dealing with a lot right now.) So, just wait and I'll get to ALL the orders very soon. Gonna deal with some tomorrow. I have 99 unanswered emails right now, and I'll get to those too, as soon as I can. Monday sounds about right ....


I do have good news - incredibly good news actually - kinda went nutty from joy today.

One JP Cummings has sent me what was my holy grail for this project, something I was searching for the entire time I was doing my edit but couldn't find.

A widescreen version of Fred Calvert's The Princess and the Cobbler. This is the version which still has the witch in it, the big one eye pull out eye shot, the march of the one eyes ... all the good stuff that Miramax cut out. It's not Dick's cut, but it's got more of the good stuff in it.

The VHS tape is 1st-gen, direct from the source. Not a copy. Quality is pretty damn good. A little dark maybe, but damn. All those amazing widescreen shots in widescreen?

The VHS has timecode, sadly covering the bottom middle of the picture. Nothing I can't work with.

Interestingly, this version is titled "The Thief and the Cobbler," showing that when Miramax bought Fred Calvert's version, they intended to restore its original title.

The VHS also has a trailer I've never seen before. It's also titled "The Thief and the Cobbler" and is somewhat similar to the Arabian Knight trailer we've seen, yet completely different. It's based on the "Princess" version of the film (including the witch), and clearly the Arabian Knight trailer was based on this, but this version is far less stupid and rather interesting.

All I can say is ... wow.

I might do another version of the film that incorporates this material, we'll se. At any rate, this is wonderful to see.

Isn't that always the way - you finish work and suddenly the thing you've been looking for turns up.
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#216402
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216402/action/topic#216402
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Heh, well, I was trying to save disc space. I had planned on doing a more extensive feature on the film and still might.


The high-res amaray art is available as posted earlier.



Praise from Twitchfilm.net:
June 04, 2006

Richard Williams' Lost Life's Work Restored By One Obsessive Fan ...
(Posted In Animation Film News Trailer Alert USA and Canada )

Big thanks to regular Twitch reader Rhythm-X for sending in the following on the fan-driven restoration project of The Thief And The Cobbler, a film multiple Oscar winner and Roger Rabbit animater Richard Williams spent twenty five years working on only to lose control of it when nearing the end, see it used as "inspiriation" for Aladdin, cut to bits in Australia, and then further cut and altered by Miramax. This story is both incredibly depressing in terms of what was done to the film and incredibly inspirational in terms of the extreme lengths a dedicated fan went to restore the film as closely as possible to Williams' original vision. You can find an official forum for the restoration project here and a trailer plus the complete restoration on YouTube. Everything that follows came this way from Rhythm-X ...

Richard Williams magnum opus THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER is perhaps the most notorious animated film never completed. In production independently for decades, designed as an example of the finest traditional animation had to offer, it was fast-tracked when Warner Bros. decided they wanted a piece of the Oscar-winning animator behind WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?. As the production continued on, Warners became nervous about Williams being able to finish the film on time to beat Disney's ALADDIN (which stole a lot from the long in production THIEF AND THE COBBLER) into theaters. What's more, they were nervous about the film itself - no songs, very light on story, a lot of animation for animation's sake - never mind that it was technically some of the most advanced cel animation ever attempted, with three-dimensional renderings thought to be beyond the reach of the inherently 2-dimensional art form. They didn't think it would sell, and they didn't think it would be done on time anyway, so they bailed out. The Completion Bond Company took over the production and immediately fired Richard Williams from the film that had literally been his life's work.

To replace him, The Completion Bond Company hired Saturday morning cartoon veteran Fred Calvert, who promptly began re-shaping Williams' film into a musical. Vastly inferior animation was used to complete the project, loads of Williams animation hit the cutting room floor, previously silent characters found themselves yapping away, and the film ultimately resembled nothing so much as an Aladdin ripoff. It was now called THE PRINCESS AND THE COBBLER, and this version was released in Australia and South Africa.

Then things really got ugly. Something was missing here. Things were not yet as awful as possible, and when you need things to go from bad to worse, there's only one company who can deliver the goods. Enter Miramax Family Films, who clearly smelled the blood in the water surrounding this project. They picked up the US rights to THE PRINCESS AND THE COBBLER, and went about "improving" (as they are prone to do) Calvert's violation of Richard William's life work; call it necrophiliac rape. Still more Williams footage was removed from the film, the characters (including the ones that weren't supposed to talk in the first place) found themselves with DIFFERENT voices, replacing the Calvert replacements, and the character of The Thief found himself saddled with a agonizing running monologue by Jonathan Winters. The Miramax version, called ARABIAN KNIGHT and now explicitly an ALADDIN rip-off, was dumped into a handful of theaters, flopped, and finally turned up on video, bearing the final insult - another title change, this time back to Richard Williams' original title THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER - which this film was clearly not. But workprints of Williams' original version were circulating, mostly in the animation community. Williams, heartbroken, quit animation and wrote a book called THE ANIMATOR'S SURVIVAL GUIDE. He refuses to talk about this film to anyone, to this day.

Now, in the 21st century, where editing a movie is within the reach of anyone with a computer on their desk, a STAR WARS fan named Garrett Gilchrist has combed the world for every bit of footage that he could find (some of which came from veterans of the original Williams crew), and produced what he calls "THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER: RECOBBLED CUT". It's taken from the Miramax version, the Calvert version, the Williams workprint, and other sources that he discovered. The quality, as you would expect, is highly variable. There are scenes taken from a pan & scan DVD, painstakingly overlayed and synchronized with the lesser-quality but CinemaScope ratio workprint. There are scenes that are only storyboards. There are scenes where a character's mouth has been re-animated by hand to synchronize with the original dialog, or lack thereof. It is a tremendous piece of work, the restoration of one man's labor of love, that became another man's labor of love. Though it is imperfect in that some of Calvert's footage is carried over here by necessity, and the workprint Williams footage is low-quality indeed, it is by far the closest we may ever get to seeing Williams' original vision of the film - closer than merely watching the blurry, overcompressed, incomplete workprint that has been making the rounds. The "Recobbled Cut" is circulating in the world of BitTorrent, and for anyone who loves animation it is a must-see of the very highest order. Special features include an informative restoration commentary track, deleted characters section, trailers for the "Recobbled Cut" and the Miramax version, gorgeous "pencil test"-themed menus, and more. The film itself is presented in its original CinemaScope ratio for 99 percent of the running time, with only a handful of shots represented in pan & scan, windowboxed in the scope frame. This is the best and most important "fan edit" ever made, and certainly the only one I'm aware of that is the most definitive possible version of an otherwise unavailable/severely compromised film. Seek it out and witness for yourself the pinnacle of traditional animation. Feel the mystic fumes.

» Posted by Todd at June 4, 2006 09:51 PM

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If you want to get a hold of this DVD you can download a copy via the bit torrent site demonoid.com. I just watched my copy a few days ago and was impressed by the amount of work Garrett put into this edit. Very fitting for a film like this which is quite possibly THE most ambitious feature length film ever attempted in any medium. One thing that's important to note when watching this movie is that aside from Garrett's digital editing, the movie is 100% analog. Certain scenes which might be easily reproduced in today's world of 3D animation become all the more impressive when you consider the massive efforts required to produce them with drawings. I imagine Dick Williams' relentless perfectionism was quite frustrating to many of his animators.
» Posted by tubesoda at June 4, 2006 10:55 PM


It would be great if someone could post the
Torrent for this, or reseed it.


Or you can see it here, in full low-res glory:-

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=The%20Thief%20and%20the%20Cobbler%20Recobbled%20Cut%20&sort=title_sort

» Posted by louis at June 5, 2006 03:47 AM

Just DL'd the DVD this past weekend. It's the most impressive fan effort I've ever seen. I've been a fan of the film for years and this is the icing on the cake for me. For any fan of animation, this is a must-see!

» Posted by Mark at June 5, 2006 08:56 AM







"Saint John the Conqueror" writes this review on his blog, which has now been shut down for some reason so I'll list it here:
Our next selection comes from the “incredible crying shame” department. Whether we know his name or not, we all know the work of animation maestro Richard Williams, the brains behind the moving drawings in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Williams’ masterpiece, however, was a little personal project called The Thief and the Cobbler, an Arabian Night-esqe tale which he started work on the 1960s using his own money. Featuring epic, lush, and incredibly beautiful animation heavily influenced by Islamic decorative art, the lovingly-made but slow-to-finish TTatC was pretty much doomed the minute Disney announced Aladdin, which was staffed by numerous veterans from the TTatC team and ripped off pretty much everything in Williams’ unfinished movie. It's unbelievable how many sequences in Aladdin were lifted wholesale from this movie. Finally in 1995 a bastardized version of Williams’ baby was released, with some terrible, TERRIBLE voiceovers (including ones for characters who were intended to be silent), shitty song-and-dance numbers and a totally kiddified version of what was intended to be a mature movie. What a sucky finish.

But thank God, it was not the finish. This past month, YouTube has been touched by the work of a benevolent soul who goes by the name of tygerbug, who has succeeded in piecing together, from released animation as well as rough sketches and workprints, what he believes to be a film closer to Williams’ original vision. Cleverly entitled The Thief and the Cobbler: The Recobbled Cut tygerbug brings justice to a piece of art which dearly deserves it. I mean, look at this thing. It’s the most fucking beautiful animated film I’ve seen in my life. The titular characters are, mercifully, silent as intended, and the film drops the hand-holding introduction and absurd narration. The cut refuses to insult its viewers’ intelligence and allows them to freely follow what is mostly a silent film, save for the slippery coolness of Vincent Price-voiced villain Zigzag, who weaves his plot in rhyme. The art is INCREDIBLE, a lavish hallucinogenic effort, capturing the distinctive Islamic style and featuring some really well-designed characters. It’s just so much fun to watch.

If you want to see this movie, and really, it’s worth it, you should not rent the DVD version unless you want to be disappointed. At first I thought about suggesting to watch it with the sound off, but then you’d miss out on the decent score and Vincent Price’s pipes. Go to YouTube and watch the Recobbled edition, or any one of its seventeen bite-sized pieces. You’ll see what I mean. Plus, it’s sort of cool to see the rough sketches spliced in with the recovered animation. It gives it a real underground feel and allows you to see glimpses of Williams’ vision still on paper.

Hopefully, someone at Warner Bros. will realize what they have done and attempt to right the wrong. Somehow, someday, I hope something like the Recobble Cut will be released on DVD or Blu-Ray or Alien Eyeball Scan or whatever. This movie needs to be saved, saved, SAVED!!
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#215547
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215547/action/topic#215547
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Caligula - if your torrent thing isn't recognizing the Demonoid torrent as being the same as the Pirate Bay torrent, keep the files and wait until either the Pirate Bay is back up, or the Myspleen torrent comes up. Those will definitely be the same stuff.

>>One question I have is: is all the content stored in the "thief" directory on your website available as DVD-ROM content on one of the many extra DVDs?

I have an entire 4GB DVD stuffed full of an incredible amount of Thief artwork and files, including what's in the thief directory but with a lot more.

* Princess YumYum looks as if she's scared of One Eye (looking in his direction)
Yeah, I wanted both of them to be scared of One Eye or Zigzag.

* ZigZag looks schemingly in King Nod's direction
Or, Tack's.

* The Old Witch stares at the pins in Tack's mouth
* Tack seems fixated on The Witch's saggy chest
No.


>>Anyway, congratulations on getting this thing done after however many months of work. Have you sent discs out to the people of the original production that helped you out? Heard any comments back from them yet?

Yep. They all got theirs and enjoyed 'em.


Here's a few comments from various people I know:


Eddie Bowers, Thief website:
I just finished watching it. Great stuff! Very nice menu as well. I
think I even like it just as it is. Some better copies of the source
material in a few spots would be nice, but I kinda' like the mix of
pencil tests and fully finished animation. It allows it to be a
complete film, but at the same time reminds you that it was something that was
never fully completed. I don't know if that makes sense, but it's very
enjoyable in this form.
I also enjoyed the Star Wars DVD (Thanks!).


"Richard Kish"
A Marvelous Job!!!
I just finished viewing the entire "Thief" DVD with ALL of the bonus
material, including the commentary on which the both of you
participated. I hadn't realized how MUCH work and effort you poured
into
this Garrett. What a wonderful and extensive piece of work. And the
commentary was a very nice and essential addition, as it not only gives
us the breadth of your work, but helps to explain the history and
"modifications" that this "project" took on over the 26 years of it's
"life".
I wanted to thank you for all of your work and for sharing this
with me and "the rest of the world". My wife was equally blown away by
the intense detail of work on the Williams footage and my 6 year old
really enjoyed the storyline.
I may not be a
filmmaker...but I'm an avid animation enthusiast and have nothing but
the greatest of respects not only for Richard Williams efforts on the
Thief, but for your work as well ... I'm one of your biggest fans and hope that
others will get bitten by the bug, as I have.

Take care and thank you once again for your efforts and
enthusiam for this project. I will do my best to share it with the
world, in the hope that one fine day, Disney will contact Richard
Williams (before he leaves this world) to help resurrect this wonderful
piece of animation.
All The Best!



A W
I do appreciate your hard work and
of course the dvd's.
I like the recobbled cut - it is an amazing
reconstruction. Tons of hard work.
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#215492
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215492/action/topic#215492
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Yes, it is possible to continue the download from Mininova. This has all been discussed before if you read.





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This is completely off topic, but people who've been reading this thread for a while might remember that I was trying to create two animated series, Dance With Grandpa and The Chosen Ones.

Here's a new reel for Dance With Grandpa, animated by myself.
http://orangecow.org/chosengrandpa/grandpamayreel.mov