The Thief and the Cobbler's chase scene. (Dir. Richard Williams, 1995.)

I remember this movie SO VIVIDLY and no one else I knew had heard of it I thought it was a dream. There’s still so much missing from the original script though the movie is so chopped up

This was in production for nearly 30 years because it was entirely hand drawn, it was finally finished by a completion bond company after Warner Bros. pulled out, resulting in heavy re-editing. You can watch the whole thing, legally, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKTCSLbjhtM).

We watched the ReCobbled cut on YouTube, which was both a dizzying display of masterful animation and a tedious slog of amateurish storytelling.  The  incomplete nature of the film gives it mystique and it would never have achieved if it had been completed and released. What I’m saying is I’m glad it’s an obscure ambitious failure rather than a mediocre and forgotten box office bomb.  Other than that one time it kind of was.

Every evil vizier aspires to be Vincent Price.

Would love to see this get a proper special edition release.

Amazing film! The recobbled cut on youtube is the closest thing to the director’s version with no dialogue for the thief or cobbler and no songs

In the documentary about this production, one of the interviewees says “It looks like people died making this” and it really does.

Yeah I watched this movie a lot as a kid. It was trippy. This scene being the big one

Looks like Corvax from Muzzy... 

Wonderful!

Funny, like I never seen this movie or much of anything with Vincent Price, somehow ended up going through his filmography yesterday as an offshoot of me looking for adaptations of Jules Vernes books that somehow led me to The Fly when I checked out a character actor named Peter Lorre, and this caught my eye on the Vincent Price page, now you post it here, small universe, I think that means I have to give it watch now lol, anybody got some thought of some of his other movies?

This is a troubled personal project of the guy who animated Roger Rabbit.

My favorite movie growing up as a kid

Wasn’t there a finished version of this film? Like not all chopped up. I remember watching it when I was a kid in the nineties.

that's actually insane

“Persistence of vision” is great documentary on the thief and the cobbler A friend who is a comic book artist invited me to a pre-showing of this documentary over a decade ago and since watching it every time I see “Aladdin” it’s the first thing that comes to mind.

AI could never make something like this.

Great visual demo. Really unappealing main character designs.