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The Thief and the Cobbler is an animated fantasy film co-written and directed by Richard Williams, [4] who intended it to be his magnum opus and a milestone in the animated medium. Originally devised in the 1960s, the film was in and out of production for nearly three decades due to independent funding and ambitiously complex animation.
Canadian animator and filmmaker Richard Williams struggled to finish his masterpiece, a long-term vanity project called The Thief and the Cobbler.Originally entering production in 1964 as an adaptation of middle-eastern folk tales, the project continued to grow in scope and complexity over several decades while Williams and his studio sought proper funding.
Masters in the Sufi mystical tradition have used these anecdotes and jokes as teaching stories, as part of their pupils' training in wisdom. [6]The animator, Richard Williams illustrated the original series of Nasrudin books, and also created a film animation featuring the character, titled The Thief and the Cobbler, which was produced by Idries Shah's brother, Omar Ali-Shah.
Arabian Nights, English title of Il fiore delle mille e una notte, an Italian film; Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights, a 1994 animated telefilm based on The Book of One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Knight, alternate title of The Thief and the Cobbler, a 1995 animated film; Arabian Nights, a Portuguese film
Richard Edmund Williams (né Lane; March 19, 1933 – August 16, 2019) was a Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and painter.A three-time Academy Award winner, he is best known as the animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) -- for which he won two Academy Awards—and as the director of his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler (1993). [1]
Harris's credits with him included A Christmas Carol (1971) — as animator of Ebenezer Scrooge — the opening titles of The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and the still-unfinished animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler (animating the eponymous thief, whose body language and facial expressions are highly reminiscent of Harris's earlier ...
The 1995 animated film The Thief and the Cobbler features a chase sequence taking place within set pieces loosely based on Escher's works. [24] In Christopher Nolan's 2010 film Inception, Arthur demonstrates to Ariadne how to make unbreakable mental mazes by constructing infinite structures.
Burton's translation (The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night 1885–88) enjoyed huge public success but was criticised for its use of archaic language and excessive erotic detail. [14] According to Ulrich Marzolph, as of 2004, Burton's translation remained the most complete version of One Thousand and One Nights in English. [14]