Slow Bob In The Lower Dimensions

Written and directed by Henry Selick, this is the pilot episode of what should have been a series. It uses live action, stop motion and cut-out animation.

Bob is a strange guy: kind of a loser in the ordinary (?) world, a slow loser, he becomes a hero in the lower dimensions.

The following episodes were scripted but never went into production. Tim Burton brought back to life The Nightmare Before Christmas project, and Selick was asked to direct it. And you should know what he did...

The short runs five minutes, but it is introduced (and followed) by some brief commentary by the director providing the informations I wrote in this post.
UPDATE: I've posted an MPEG-4 version with no commentaries to play it inline.

Soundtrack by The Residents.

You might be aware of it by now, but Henry Selick is working at Laika Studio on a feature lenght movie based on Neil Gaiman's Coraline.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• MTV
• liquid
• television
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• dimensions
• henry
• selick
• 90s
• 1991
• 1990s
• cartoon
• live
• action
• stop
• motion

[comradevodka]

Only in a truly mad world a television producer can turn this down but greenlight "The Hills" and "My Sweet Sixteenth".

[Czeppelin]

Burton doesn't take the credit from Selick. Burton wrote and imagined visually TNBC (he also made the look of the characters), Selick directed it. And they are still friends.

[TheMrBlinx]

Gee, I don't recall taking acid about an hour ago....

[DeepEye1994]

2:11

SLOW BOB's FLYING CIRCUS-S-S-s-s-s!!!

[dryice100]

this is amazing.

[wickedfeylady]

This is the most awesome thing ever.

[madahad9]

There are a multitude of reasons to dislike MTV but give them their due that at one time they had aired Liquid Television. Whereelse would see such diverse examples of animation. Slow Bob has always been a personal favorite as well as the early episodes of Aeon Flux before they gave the characters voices---a bad idea in my opinion and what made me loose interest.

[bobopatchigglerrulez]

I'm watching the MTV30 special on VH1 classic right now and they just showed this, I see "music by The Residents" and I just had to watch, it made absolutely no sense, but it was awesome

[RetroToledo]

@madahad9 From what I understand, he eventually got called to work on "The Nightmare Before Christmas" so that's why he didn't pursue this one further.

[RetroToledo]

@underserf It's more like, where does the art end and the commerce beings that orchestrates most of those decisions.

[madahad9]

I caught this the first time on the late and very lamented Liquid Television and absolutely loved it. Too bad there was never a seqel made as the ending somewhat hinted at.