Nasrudin clip from One Pair of Eyes: Dreamwalkers

A short segment on the never-finished Nasrudin film that eventually became The Thief and the Cobbler. This features the "Substance of Bread" scene in workprint form - a mix of finished photography and storyboards. This scene is in pencil form in The Creative Person. This video clip also features interviews with Richard Williams and Omar Ali-Shah.

It is unclear how much of the Nasrudin film was completed, as very little of it has been seen, but many shots and ideas from the original film survive in The Thief and the Cobbler- which was written and compiled as a hodgepodge of the best visual ideas from the unfinished Nasrudin film.

Kenneth Williams is the primary (only?) voice heard in this clip.

This is from a documentary series, One Pair of Eyes. The episode is called Dreamwalkers. The narrator is Idries Shah, who translated and wrote a series of Nasrudin books which were illustrated by Richard Williams in the 1960s, leading to this animated project which fell apart when Williams fell out with the Shah family over financial issues.

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[Josh366lol]

@TCgamerboy2002 Well, that is true. It does say so on the wikipedia. The wierd thing is he looks familiar with Zigzag. King Nod looks the same or is that his name?

[TCgamerboy2002]

@Josh366lol Except the guy was named Anwar, I believe.

[Josh366lol]

That's what Zigzag was originally going to look like?!?

[TCgamerboy2002]

Here's a line that was spoken from one of the "wisemen" that was skipped:

"A vexed question, But I for one know it to be none other than baked dough."

[mxyzptlk2010]

@rod2155 this is what came of the thief and the cobbler

[rod2155]

5 years working on this?! Where is the rest of this animation? another lost William's peice?