The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut Trailer

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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[woollybully100]

whats the name of the music playing during this trailer?

[TheThiefArchive]

@woollybully100 This is from Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

[TheThiefArchive]

Also visit the Recobbled Cut page on Facebook.

[TheTygre]

Take a close look kids; this isn't animation the right way.

This is animation the best way possible.

[pau57]

Beautiful trailer! This is one of the best animated movies EVER!

[domj1797]

Thumbs up if the Nostalgia Critic brought you here!

[theretrogamer14]

@TheThiefArchive thanks for all of the information on this (almost) lost classic by Richard Williams, absolutely loved this version a must see i think!

[14Hodges]

Looks like Yellow Submarine, except a little more trippy

[kingjamie2]

I'm at a loss for words.

This trailer had me literally panting. Hunched over the desk, face inches from the screen, staring entranced, engrosed, captivated mesmerised, fidgeting from how sensational the thing I was seeing were.

Unbelievable.

This is the zenith.

[A88mph]

The add i saw next to the video was for "The Secret of Kells". Witch is what I thought of when I first saw the Cobbler. (I diden't know about this film at all till I saw Nostalgia Critic).

[vasglorious]

You know since I was 6 or 7 years old, The Lion King was my favorite animated movie, until I saw The Thief and the Cobbler: The Recobbled Cut last year, and I can proudly say it's now my favorite animated of all time.

[TheMuffinMan151]

this movie looks trippy and cool

[evilhopscotch]

The animation alone is enough to elevate the miramax cut to a level just under tolerable, though it can't save all the bad decisions the bigwigs made in releasing it.

the recobbled cut made me cry, it was so gorgeous. here was a movie I grew up with, made so much better than I ever thought possible. It's INCREDIBLE. this movie influenced my sense of style and dreams when I was a kid, and the recobbled cut makes me love animation just that much more.

[narrat0r12]

0:36 looks like something from Silent Hill...

[woollybully100]

@TheThiefArchive thank you