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Uploaded on Jun 8, 2010

Enjoy the original version of this lost animation classic, written and directed by three-time Academy Award winning animator Richard Williams (animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit).

Nearly 30 years in the making, a labor of love by a team of animation greats, this was to be the masterpiece of Williams' career, perhaps the most ambitious independent animated film ever conceived. Williams funded the film over the years with his millions of dollars of his own money, until after Roger Rabbit, Warner Brothers decided to fund the film. The Thief was the inspiration for Disney's film Aladdin, which proved to be its undoing. After over two decades of work, the film was taken away from Williams when he couldn't meet his deadline. It was eventually recut and destroyed, bought by Disney and destroyed further.

It has never been seen the way it was intended to be seen ... until now. Based on Williams' original workprint, missing scenes have been restored using storyboards and unfinished animation. Restored to its true form, this lost classic can finally be found.

Unofficial restoration by Garrett Gilchrist. (orangecow.org) This is not intended for profit, just a fanmade research project and tribute to this classic film.

Directed by Richard Williams
Screenplay by Richard Williams and Margaret French
Master animator Ken Harris
Produced by Imogen Sutton and Richard Williams

"Animation among the most glorious and lively ever created." - The New York Times

"It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the centre of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be ... nameless."

Also known (in horrifically butchered form) as Arabian Knight and The Princess and the Cobbler.

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  • darroth42

    that's what they get for marching in "rube Goldberg" formation.

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  • GetAnotherShrink

    now, THAT is art! To make all these crazy machinery animations by hand... Genius ;_;

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  • IKEEMBLEM

    *Sees army approaching and weapons unfolding*

    Yeah..im just gonna get a nuke...

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  • killer burrito from outta space

    3:00 - 4:43

    Final destination before it was cool

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  • 123121s1

    what do i have to search for to find only the music from this part without any of the other audio?

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  • Alex Encalada

    Best comment ever.

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  • IncompetentDomino

    Hey, they managed to raise 6 million for the Veronica Mars movie, it could happen.

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  • RickT4172

    No wonder why it took 29 years...

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  • NostramVan

    If I recall correctly the studio took him completely off the project, but that may not be correct.

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  • KarateKidX

    AIM THE CATAPULTS AT OUR BASE

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    in playlist THE THIEF & THE COBBLER FULL DIRECTORS CUT
  • Jeff Hodgins

    Disney can go fuck themselves.

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    Fuck you.

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